Karina Smirnoff

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Karina Smirnoff
Карина Смирнофф
Karina Smirnoff Get Smart premiere arrival.jpg
Smirnoff in 2008
Born
Karyna Smyrnova

(1978-01-02) January 2, 1978 (age 46)
Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR (now Ukraine)
Alma mater Fordham University
OccupationDancer
PartnerJustinas Duknauskas
Children1

Karina Smirnoff [lower-alpha 1] (born January 2, 1978) [1] is a Soviet-born American [2] professional ballroom dancer of Ukrainian origins. [3] She is known as a professional dancer on Dancing with the Stars, where she won the thirteenth season with army veteran and soap opera star J. R. Martinez. She has also won two runner-up titles, a semifinal title, and several quarterfinal titles.

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She is a five-time U.S. National Champion, World Trophy Champion, and Asian Open Champion. She has won the title at the UK Open, is a three-time champion at the US Open, two-time champion at the Asian Open, five-time champion at the Dutch Open, and five-time US National Professional Champion. She has taken second at the British Open Blackpool Dance Festival, [4] and the first woman to reach the British Professional Final with three different partners, and surpassed her own distinction by being the only woman to have made the final with four different partners between 1999 - 2006. [5]

Early life

Karina Smirnoff was born in Kharkiv, [1] Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union, [2] [4] and is of half-Greek and half-Russian Jewish descent. [6] [3] At 11, she began competing in ballroom dancing. [7] She chose to pursue ballroom dancing. In 1993, Smirnoff immigrated to the United States. [2] [8]

Education

Smirnoff attended multiple schools, including Nerinx Hall High School in St. Louis and Christopher Columbus High School in The Bronx. She finally graduated from the Bronx High School of Science. Smirnoff graduated from New York City's Fordham University with a double major in economics and information system programming. [4]

Career

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Karina Smirnoff and Slavik Kryklyvyy

Early in Smirnoff's dancing career, she and Roman Nabatov competed as an amateur couple for USA. They ended their dance partnership in January 1997. [9] Smirnoff soon after started dancing with Paul Killick in October 1998 as a professional couple for England; this partnership ended in July 1999. Immediately, Louis Van Amstel and Karina Smirnoff, in July 1999, entered a professional dance partnership, representing the U.S.A; the partnership ended in December 2000. [10] From January 2001 to September 2005, Smirnoff was in a dance partnership with Slavik Kryklyvyy and they represented the U.S.A; this partnership thus far is her most successful one. Kryklyvyy and Smirnoff earned numerous top titles and high ratings together. [11]

Smirnoff appeared in the 2004 film Shall We Dance? as a dance instructor and was Stanley Tucci's dance partner. [12] She also released a fitness DVD, Shape Up With Karina Smirnoff. [13]

Her last professional partner recorded in competitions was Dmitri Timokhin representing Russia in October 2005. They won first place at the 2006 Grand-Prix Dynamo in Moscow. [14] They finished dancing together in June 2006. [15] Smirnoff was the project manager/director of a dancing event entitled "Day & Night", held on November 18, 2006 at the Hollywood & Highlands Grand Ballroom. [16] She guest starred as Madame Escajeda in an episode of Hannah Montana . [17] She is featured in a nude pictorial in the May 2011 American issue of Playboy magazine. [18]

In November 2016, it was announced that Smirnoff would be joining the cast of E! reality series Famously Single for its second season. [19]

Dancing with the Stars

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Smirnoff in 2014

Smirnoff was a performer on the third season of the ABC series Dancing with the Stars with celebrity partner Mario López. They finished in second place, losing to the team of Emmitt Smith and Cheryl Burke. Smirnoff returned to the show on March 19, 2007 for Season 4, this time partnered with Billy Ray Cyrus, country singer and Hannah Montana star. [20] The pair was the seventh to be eliminated from the competition on May 8, 2007. Her partner for Season 5 of the show was current five-division world champion boxer, Floyd Mayweather Jr. On October 16, 2007, Karina and Floyd were the fourth couple eliminated from competition and came in 9th place. She returned for Season 6, partnered with singer Mario and finished in 5th place. In Season 7, she was partnered with chef Rocco DiSpirito and they were the fourth pair to be eliminated with a finish of 9th place for the second time.

For the eighth season, Smirnoff's partner was Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak. They were eliminated in the fourth round on March 31, 2009, along with Holly Madison and her partner Dmitry Chaplin. For the ninth season, she was partnered with singer Aaron Carter. They were eliminated on November 10, 2009, placing fifth. In the eleventh season, she was partnered with The Situation from MTV's reality TV show Jersey Shore . They were eliminated in the fourth week. In the twelfth season of Dancing with the Stars, she was partnered with movie star Ralph Macchio. They were eliminated in the semi-finals.

Smirnoff appeared on the thirteenth season of Dancing with the Stars, where she was partnered with All My Children actor J. R. Martinez. Smirnoff and Martinez ended up winning the competition against Rob Kardashian and his partner Cheryl Burke & Ricki Lake and her partner Derek Hough. This was the first time Smirnoff had advanced to the finals since her inaugural season in season 3 with Mario López. For the fourteenth season of Dancing With The Stars, Karina was partnered with singer Gavin DeGraw. They were eliminated in week 5. For the fifteenth season, she was partnered with season four winner, Apolo Anton Ohno and ended up placing 5th. For the sixteenth season, she is partnered with NFL star Jacoby Jones. Smirnoff became injured when she was performing a flip with partner Jones during rehearsals for their week 9 Lindy hop. The couple was able to reach finals but came in third place losing to Zendaya and Kellie Pickler who took second and first place respectively. For season 17 she was partnered with former High School Musical actor Corbin Bleu and landed in second place behind Amber Riley and Derek Hough. For season 18, she was partnered with former NHL player Sean Avery. They were the second couple eliminated in a double elimination on Week 2. This marked Smirnoff's earliest exit of the competition. For season 19 she was paired with UFC fighter and actor Randy Couture. They were eliminated in week 3, finishing in 11th place. After taking a one-season break, Smirnoff returned for season 21 and was paired with professional jockey, Victor Espinoza. [21] The couple was eliminated on Week 2 and finished in 12th place. [22] For season 22, she was partnered with former NFL quarterback Doug Flutie. They were eliminated on week 6 of competition and finished in 9th place.

On October 24, 2023, Smirnoff returned to the Season 32 ballroom, along with many of her original DWTS peers, performing a group choreographed Waltz, to "Moon River", as a special tribute in memory of DWTS judge, Len Goodman. Goodman had retired one year earlier in 2022, after the previous season, and passed away on April 22.2023 after a long battle with cancer.

Performances

SeasonPartnerPlace
3 Mario Lopez 2nd
4 Billy Ray Cyrus 5th
5 Floyd Mayweather Jr. 9th
6 Mario 5th
7 Rocco DiSpirito 9th
8 Steve Wozniak 10th
9 Aaron Carter 5th
11 Mike Sorrentino 9th
12 Ralph Macchio 4th
13 J. R. Martinez 1st
14 Gavin DeGraw 9th
15 Apolo Anton Ohno 5th
16 Jacoby Jones 3rd
17 Corbin Bleu 2nd
18 Sean Avery 11th
19 Randy Couture
21 Victor Espinoza 12th
22 Doug Flutie 9th

With Mario Lopez (Season 3) 27.6

WeekDance(s)/Song Carrie Ann's
Score		 Len's
Score		 Bruno's
Score		Result
1 Cha-Cha-Cha/"Walkin' on the Sun"989Safe
2 Quickstep/"Do Your Thing"768Safe
3 Tango/"What You Waiting For?"868Safe
4 Paso Doble/"Cancion Del Mariachi"10910Safe
5 Rumba/"The Way You Look Tonight"999Safe
6 Mambo/"Ran Kan Kan"9910No elimination
7 Foxtrot/"I Wanna Be Loved by You"1099Safe
Jive/"Shake a Tail Feather"999
8
Quarter Finals		 Waltz/"Dark Waltz"9910Bottom two
Samba/"Superstition"10910
9
Semi-Finals		Tango/"Whatever Lola Wants"101010Safe
Cha-Cha-Cha/"Bad"10910
10
Finals		Samba/"Sir Duke"10910Runner-up
Paso Doble/"Cancion Del Mariachi"101010
Freestyle/"It Take Two"101010

With Billy Ray Cyrus (Season 4) 19.0

WeekDance(s)/Song(s) Carrie Ann Inaba Len Goodman Bruno Tonioli Result
1 Cha-Cha-Cha/"I Want My Mullet Back"544No elimination
2 Quickstep/"Ring of Fire"777Safe
3 Tango/"Rock the Casbah"777Safe
4 Paso Doble/"Black Betty"777Safe
5 Rumba/"What's Love Got to Do with It?"665Safe
6 Jive/"I Love to Boogie"777Safe
7 Waltz/"Play Me"566Bottom two
Samba/Living in America"777
8
Quarter Finals		 Foxtrot/"Stand by Your Man"765Eliminated
Mambo/"My Way"677

With Floyd Mayweather Jr. (Season 5) 20.8

WeekDance/Song Carrie Ann Inaba Len Goodman Bruno Tonioli Result
1 Cha-Cha-Cha/"The Way You Move"666Safe
2 Quickstep/"Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours"777Safe
3 Jive/"Mess Around"777Bottom two
4 Paso Doble/"Captain from Castille"788Eliminated

With Mario (Season 6) 25.4

WeekDance(s)/Song(s) Carrie Ann Len Bruno Result
1 Cha-Cha-Cha/"Request Line"888No elimination
2 Quickstep/"Valerie"989Safe
3 Tango/"El Tango de Roxanne"768Last to be called safe
4 Paso Doble/"Higher Ground"879Safe
5 Samba/"A-Tisket, A-Tasket"999Safe
6 Rumba/"Let's Get It On"9910Bottom two
7 Foxtrot/"I'm Your Man"
Mambo/"Mambo a la Sandoval"		8
9		8
9		8
9		Safe
8
Quarter Finals		 Viennese Waltz/"If I Ain't Got You"
Jive/"Little Bitty Pretty One"		9
9		9
8		9
9		Eliminated

With Rocco DiSpirito (Season 7) 17.8

WeekDance(s)/Song(s) Carrie Ann Inaba's
Score		 Len Goodman's
Score		 Bruno Tonioli's
Score		Result
1 Foxtrot/"Stray Cat Strut"
Mambo/"La Comay"		5
7		4
7		5
7		Safe
2 Rumba/"You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine"565Safe
3 Viennese Waltz/"What's New Pussycat?"776Safe*
4 Samba/"I Go to Rio"666Eliminated
  • Would have been eliminated, but was not after Misty May-Treanor suffered an injury and was forced to withdraw from competition.

With Steve Wozniak (Season 8) 13.0

WeekDance/Song Carrie Ann Inaba Len Goodman Bruno Tonioli Result
1 Cha-Cha-Cha/"You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet"544No elimination
2 Quickstep/"Oh, Boy!"656Dance off
3 Samba/"Jump in the Line (Shake, Senora)"433Safe
4 Argentine Tango/"Cite Tango"444Eliminated

With Aaron Carter (Season 9) 24.0

WeekDance(s)/Song(s) Carrie Ann Len/Baz Bruno Result
1 Cha-Cha-Cha/"Beggin'"787Safe
Viennese Waltz/"I Am Your Man"Awarded10Points
2 Quickstep/"The Muppet Show Theme Song"99*9Safe
3 Rumba/"Spotlight"867Safe
4 Lambada/"Dr. Beat"666Bottom two
5 Argentine Tango/"Epoca"888Bottom two
6 Waltz/"Three Times a Lady"898Safe
Mambo Marathon/"Ran Kan Kan"Awarded8Points
7 Jive/"We're Not Gonna Take It"91010Bottom two
Paso Doble/"I Hate Myself for Loving You"888
8
Quarter Finals		 Foxtrot/"Lucky"788Eliminated
90's Samba/"Two Princes"999

With Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino (Season 11)

  • Season average: 16.2; placed 9th
Week #Dance/SongJudges' scoreResult
InabaGoodmanTonioli
1 Cha-cha-cha / "Break Your Heart"555Safe
2 Quickstep / "Americano"666Last to be called safe
3 Foxtrot / "Boom Boom Pow"767Safe
4* Argentine Tango / "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)"444Eliminated
655
  • As part of acoustic music/double-scoring week, the judges had to give scores for both technical and performance.

With Ralph Macchio (Season 12)

  • Season average: 23.4; placed 4th
Week #Dance/SongJudges' scoreResult
InabaGoodmanTonioli
1 Foxtrot / "Ain't That a Kick in the Head?"888Safe
2 Jive / "Nobody But Me"777Safe
3 Rumba / "Stay Gold"777Safe
4 Waltz / "Romeo and Juliet"889Safe
5 Samba / "Sweet Home Alabama"877Safe
6 Paso Doble / "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)"888Last to be called safe
7 Quickstep / "Pencil Full of Lead"*9 / 1089Safe
Team Cha-cha-cha / "Born This Way"*8 / 877
8 Viennese Waltz / "Maybe I, Maybe You"889Last to be called safe
Instant Cha-cha-cha / "Stuck in the Middle with You"777
9 Argentine Tango / "Violentango"898Eliminated
Salsa / "I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)"878
  • Additional scores for Week 7 were awarded by guest judge Donnie Burns.

With J.R. Martinez (Season 13)

  • Season average: 26.4; placed 1st
Week #Dance/SongJudges' scoreResult
InabaGoodmanTonioli
1 Viennese Waltz / "Breakaway"877Safe
2 Jive / "Jump, Jive An' Wail!"778Safe
3 Rumba / "If You're Reading This"989Safe
4 Foxtrot / "Theme from The Pink Panther"899Safe
5 Samba / "Conga"9910Safe
6 Quickstep / "Hot Honey Rag"10910Safe
7 Tango / "Theme from Ghostbusters"988Safe
Team Tango / "Disturbia"878
8 Waltz / "What the World Needs Now"101010Safe
Instant Jive / "Tutti Frutti"101010
9 Paso Doble / "Theme from The Legend of Zorro"878Last to be called safe
Argentine Tango / "Bust Your Windows"999
Cha-cha-cha Relay / "I Like How It Feels"Awarded6Points
10 Cha-cha-cha / "Let's Get Loud"879WINNERS
Freestyle / "Whine Up"101010
Jive / "Jump, Jive An' Wail!"Awarded28Points
Instant Samba / "Shake Your Bon-Bon"101010

With Gavin DeGraw (Season 14)

  • Season average: 21.4; placed 9th
Week #Dance/SongJudges' scoreResult
InabaGoodmanTonioli
1 Foxtrot / "I Run to You"767No elimination
2 Jive / "Real Wild Child"777Bottom two
3 Rumba / "New York State of Mind"888Bottom two
4 Tango / "Paint It, Black"887Safe
5 Samba / "Sweetheart from Venezuela"
Dance Duel Cha-cha-cha / "The Edge of Glory"		6
Lost		6
This		7
Event		Eliminated

With Apolo Anton Ohno (Season 15)

  • Season average: 27.3; placed 5th
Week #Dance/SongJudges' scoreResult
InabaGoodmanTonioli
1 Cha-cha-cha / "Party Rock Anthem"7.577.5Safe
2 Quickstep / "Five Months, Two Weeks, Two Days"8.588Safe
3 Foxtrot / "Fever"988.5Safe
4 Hip-Hop / "Poison"8.598.5* / 8.5Safe
5 Samba / "Give It to Me Baby"
Team Freestyle / "Call Me Maybe"		8.5
9.5		9.5
10		9
10		No elimination
6 Viennese Waltz / "Skin (Sarabeth)"101010Last to be called Safe
7 Cha-cha-cha & Paso Doble / "Scream"
Swing Marathon / "Do Your Thing"		9
Awarded		9
6		9
Points		No elimination
8 Tango / "Holding Out for a Hero"
Jive (Trio Challenge)* / "Greased Lightnin'"		10
9.5		9.5
9.5		10
10		Last to be called Safe
9 Jazz / "What You Waiting For?"
Rumba / "Man in the Mirror"		8.5
10		9
10		9.5
10		Eliminated
  • The additional score for Week 4 was awarded by guest judge Paula Abdul.
  • The dancer Ohno and Smirnoff chose for the Trio Challenge was Sasha Farber.

With Jacoby Jones (Season 16)

  • Season average: 25.6; placed 3rd
Week #Dance/SongJudges' scoreResult
InabaGoodmanTonioli
1 Cha-cha-cha / "Good Feeling"767No elimination
2 Jazz / "Five Guys Named Moe"878Safe
3Prom Group Dance / "The Rockafeller Skank"
Rumba / "Stay"		Awarded
8		2
8		Points
8		Safe
4 Foxtrot / "Watching You"888Safe
5 Jive* / "Long Tall Sally"989Safe
6 Quickstep / "For Once in My Life"
Team Paso Doble / "Higher Ground"		8
7		7
8		8
7		Safe
7 Salsa / "Danza Kuduro"
Jive Dance Off / "Good Golly Miss Molly"		9
Lost		9
This		9
Event		Safe
8 Viennese Waltz / "It's a Man's, Man's, Man's World"
Paso Doble (Trio Challenge)* / "La Virgen de la Macarena"		9
8		9
9		9
8		Last to be called Safe
9 Argentine Tango / "Concierto Para Quinteto"
Lindy Hop / "Ding Dong Daddy of the D-Car Line"		10
10		10
9		10
10		Safe
10 Jive / "Shake It"
Cha-cha-cha Relay / "Treasure"
Freestyle / "Can't Hold Us"
Instant Salsa / "Aguanile"		9
Awarded
9
10		9
2
9
10		9
points
9
10		Third Place

With Corbin Bleu (Season 17) 27.4

Season 17 – Celebrity partner: Corbin Bleu; Season average: 27.4; placed 2nd

Week #Dance/SongJudges' scoreResult
InabaGoodmanTonioli
1 Contemporary / "If I Lose Myself"888No elimination
2 Jive / "Kiss You"989Safe
3 Quickstep / "Diga Diga Doo"989Safe
4 Paso Doble / "Zorongo"99*9Safe
5 Foxtrot / "My Wish"9910Safe
6 Viennese Waltz / "Theme from Game of Thrones"
Switch-Up Challenge / Various		8
Awarded		7
4		8
Points		Not eliminated
7 Cha-cha-cha / "Pumpin Blood"
Team Freestyle / "The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?)"		10
10		9
10		10
10		Safe
8 Argentine Tango / "Welcome to Burlesque"
Cha-cha-cha Dance-Off / "Woman's World"		9
Awarded		9*
3		9
Points		Safe
9 Waltz / "Apologize"
Jazz (Trio Challenge)* / "Yeah!"		9
10		9
10		10
10		Safe
10 Tango / "My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up)"
Rumba / "My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up)" (acoustic version)		9
10		8/9*
10/10*		9
10		Safe
11 Quickstep / "Diga Diga Doo"
Samba Relay / "No Scrubs"
Freestyle / "Smooth Criminal"
Cha-cha-cha & Foxtrot / "All Night"		9
Awarded
10
9		9
5
10
9		9
Points
10
9		Runner-up

With Sean Avery (Season 18) 20.5

Season 18 – Celebrity partner: Sean Avery; Season average: 20.5; placed 11th

Week #Dance/SongJudges' scoreResult
InabaGoodmanTonioli
1 Contemporary / "Somewhere Only We Know"767No elimination
2 Salsa / "Dance Bailalo"777Eliminated

With Randy Couture (Season 19) 28.3

Season 19 – Celebrity partner: Randy Couture; Season average: 28.3; placed 11th

Week #Dance/SongJudges' scoreResult
InabaGoodmanJ. HoughTonioli
1 Foxtrot / "The Way You Look Tonight"8788Safe
2 Cha-cha-cha / "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"7777Safe
3 Paso Doble / "Eye of the Tiger"77*66Eliminated

Notes

  1. ↑ Ukrainian: Карина Смирнофф, romanized: Karyna Smyrnoff
    Birth name: Ukrainian: Карина Смирнова, romanized: Karyna Smyrnova

With Victor Espinoza (Season 21) 17.3

Season 21 – Celebrity partner: Victor Espinoza; Season average: 17.3; placed: 12th

Week #Dance/SongJudges' scoreResult
InabaJ. HoughTonioli
1 Salsa / "G.D.F.R"555No elimination
2 Jive / "La Bamba"656Eliminated
Rumba / "Girl on Fire"767

With Doug Flutie (Season 22) 19.2

Season 22 – Celebrity partner: Doug Flutie; Season average:19.2; placed: 9th

Week #Dance/SongJudges' scoreResult
InabaGoodmanTonioli
1 Foxtrot / "Sweet Caroline"555No elimination
2 Paso Doble / "Buster Voodoo"767Bottom three
3 Waltz / "Rainbow Connection"767Last to be called safe
4 Jazz / "A Spoonful of Sugar"66/616Safe
52 Tango / "Black and Gold"77/737No elimination
6 Bollywood / "Jai Ho"777Eliminated

1 Score given by guest judge Zendaya.
2 For this week only, as part of "America's Switch Up", Flutie performed with Peta Murgatroyd instead of Smirnoff. Smirnoff performed with Antonio Brown.
3 Score given by guest judge Maksim Chmerkovskiy.

Personal life

Smirnoff grew up as an only child. Her parents own a liquor store in Staten Island. She has an American Staffordshire Terrier dog named Randy. [23]

She was engaged to fellow DWTS pro and Ukrainian Maksim Chmerkovskiy for nine months in 2009. [24]

In October 2009, Smirnoff began dating Major League Baseball pitcher Brad Penny. They became engaged in October 2010, [25] but ended the engagement in December 2011. [26]

Smirnoff became engaged to entrepreneur Jason Adelman in January 2015. [27] On March 11, 2015, both individuals announced that they had split and their engagement was off. [28] [29]

In the summer of 2015 she was featured with her cast mates on Celebrity Family Feud . On the stage she danced a salsa number with host Steve Harvey. Her fellow dancers gave them a perfect "10."

In April 2020, Smirnoff gave birth to her first child, Theo Gabriel, [30] [31] with boyfriend Justinas Duknauskas. [32]

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