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"I have some disappointing news to report this morning. Maksim Chmerkovskiy went on The View to announce that he won&amp;#39;t be returning to Dancing With the Stars as a professional dancer: &amp;quot;I&amp;#39;m done dancing. I feel it&amp;#39;s time. I loved the experience. When I came back to the show, it was not the same...I was different, probably. When I came back, I saw this amazing talent, Val [his brother] included. I looked at it and thought they can do much more and better. I was taking up a huge spot.&amp;quot; What on earth? Let&amp;#39;s discuss.\nPinterestFacebookHas any DWTS duo been more beloved than Maks and Meryl? (We think not.) Their Mirrorball trophy win capped off a season full of red-hot dance routines&amp;#8212;and relationship rumors.\nPHOTO: ABCWhen I spoke with executive producer Joe Sungkur a couple of weeks ago at the ABC TCA party he said that &amp;quot;we&amp;#39;re still working that out&amp;quot; in regards to a return from Maks. Maks mentioned in his statement that he&amp;#39;s done dancing, but I&amp;#39;ve heard rumors that DWTS is interested in adding a fourth judge to the panel this year and not a guest judge like last year. Could Maks fill that last spot? It&amp;#39;s certainly possible, as he guest-judged two seasons ago and also has judged in other international versions of DWTS.\nHere&amp;#39;s the reason I think he&amp;#39;s not coming back: Unlike actors who win an Oscar and use it as fuel for the next project, athletes are a bit different. For many of them, when they reach the pinnacle of their career, they just want to go out on top. With Maks, he had the best experience and season of his DWTS career when he won the Mirrorball trophy with Meryl Davis and hearts around the world. He was never going to match that again with another partner&amp;#8212;the experience was too special. In many ways, this is the perfect way to go out. You really can&amp;#39;t script it any better (well, unless of course, as Carrie Ann Inaba said, &amp;quot;I just want you two to go off and get married!&amp;quot;).\nBut is it really the end for Maks on DWTS? I don&amp;#39;t believe it. I don&amp;#39;t buy that he thought other people were more talented than him. I would like to see him return in another capacity&amp;#8212;and, of course, if he does return to the dance floor (for a special encore) that he brings Meryl with him.\nDancing returns to ABC on Monday, September 15.\nAre you guys shocked by the news?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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