Lea Thompson Reflects On “Intense” ‘Dancing With The Stars’ Partner Artem Chigvintsev: “He Would Get So Mad At Me”
deadline.comBack to the Future star Lea Thompson reflected on her time participating in Dancing With the Stars with pro dance partner Artem Chigvintsev, whom she described as “intense,” alluding to the disrespectful way he would speak to her. “It was hard working with him because it was his first year and it was a big deal to him,” Thompson told Cheryl Burke on the Sept.
8 episode of her iHeart podcast Sex, Lies and Spray Tans. “He was so intense. It was so much more important to him than to me, honestly.
And so that made me really nervous, it made me crazy after a while.” Thompson, who took ballet as a child, starred in Season 19 of the long-running ABC-turned-Disney+ competition series, at which point pro dancer Burke had left, prior to eventually returning in later seasons.
During the conversation, the two discussed the Hunger Games-like qualities of the show and Chigvintsev’s arrest. As previously reported by Deadline, Chigvintsev was arrested early on Aug.
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