Kirstie and Alley Maksim Dancing Freak Show

'Dancing with the Stars' Kirstie Alley: 'We've become the freak show'

Are Kirstie Alley and Maksim Chmerkovskiy cursed on the dance floor? A week after her partner tumbled to the ground after pulling a muscle, Alley’s shoe came off during Monday’s installment of Dancing with the Stars.
“I’m not doing a sitcom. I’m actually doing a dancing show.” the actress told reporters afterwards. “I’m tired of having to recover. I would just like to do something right.  I don’t feel like I’m jinxed, but I feel like I need to get my sh– together. When people are accident prone, there is something going on with them. There is something going on. Our rehearsals were swell. We’re bitchin’ in rehearsals. If you could just sort of tune into the rehearsals…”

“Look, I’m supposed to be Swan Lake out there, la la la la la,” she continued. “Instead I’m like, la la la la and he’s supposed to come out to me but he comes up and I’m like, my fling shoe, my fling shoe, my fling shoe is off, what do I do? I don’t know what you do in these situations! I’m going to write a book about this. I just feel like I want to be the people who dance well. First week, we were the people who danced really well. And somehow along we’ve become the freak show. The freak show is good but we need to take the dancing up a notch.”

If Chmerkovskiy was disappointed about what happened, he certainly wasn’t showing it. “Listen, we got an 8 and a shoe came off.  Honestly, I’m very happy. I’m excited.”
As for American Theme Week slated for next Monday, the duo already has a plan. ”We’re gonna not lose a shoe, not have a muscle cramp,” Chmerkovskiy said.

“We want to be dazzling in the right way,” Alley added. ”We have to have more dancing and less malfunctions.”