Dancing With the Stars' Maks Chmerkovskiy Slams "Absurd" Jan Ravnik Casting

Maks went on to note how he was encouraged after Jan delivered "one dance that delivered some sort of direction" but that his momentum went "off the cliff" with his subsequent teachings of the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star.

He added that his criticism is less about Jan, 30, himself and more about the decision to hire him in the first place.

"Jan, whoever he is, I have zero against him whatsoever," the 45-year-old said. "No way, this was a missed opportunity."

Fellow DTWS pro Peta—who most recently competed on season 32—agreed, saying that Jen "has a major disadvantage" in the competition because Jan is the pro guiding her every week.

"I feel bad because she's not getting taught the basics that she needs to," she claimed. "She's not getting taught the base of the dance."

Maks concurred, offering that "it's not Jan's fault" that he doesn't have as much as experience in ballroom dancing as some of the other pros on the cast, which is when Peta alleged that he was only hired because he worked with Taylor on The Eras Tour.

"They hired him. He's a Taylor Swift dancer. It's the obvious reason why he is hired," she said. "Apart from that, he's a lovely guy. He looks great. He obviously is a great dancer. Hiring a non-ballroom dancer to teach ballroom dancing to a celebrity as a job is outrageous."

While he didn't "want to name names," Maks clarified that "there were people that had come on that didn't have the expertise, but they immediately integrated different" from Jan.

Meanwhile, Peta suggested that Jan should've joined the show in a different capacity first instead of immediately being made a pro.

"He should have been a part of troupe," she explained. "He should have learned, gone to ballroom classes."

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