Spoiler Alert: Did 'The Situation' Get the Boot from Dancing with the Stars?

Another week, another bottom three ranking for Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino on Dancing With the Stars.

Trailing just below Bristol Palin and Kurt Warner, Sorrentino and his partner Karina Smirnoff failed to impress judges once again, coming in last place Monday night with a combined score of 28 out of 60.

Even Sorrentino's infamous abs, which were exposed on the show, could not save the Jersey Shore star from low scores. Did they save him from elimination? Or was it Palin or Warner who got the boot?

It's a sad Situation.

"You know what? I told myself if I got eliminated today, I put it all out on the floor last night," said Sorrentino after he was bounced from the ballroom. "I made it to the fourth round. ... I'm not a dancer, and I tried to practice. It was definitely hard."

Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino Thinks He Can Win Dancing with the Stars

Jersey Shore's Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino poses with his partner Karina Smirnoff in this promo picture for the upcoming season of Dancing with the Stars.

The 28-year-old Jersey Shore star told E! that he thinks he has a good shot at winning the dancing title this season. “I definitely got a chance. I’m an athlete, I love the camera, I love people, so as long as I practice, I’ve got a shot.”

Watch "The Situation", along with Bristol Palin, Florence Henderson, Michael Bolton, Brandy and more, when the new season of Dancing with the Stars premieres this Monday on ABC.

Pairs are Revealed for Season 11 of Dancing with the Stars

Bristol Palin and her modest outfits will be paired up with two-time winner Mark Ballas for the upcoming season of ABC’s Dancing With the Stars. On the other end of the spectrum, Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino and Karina Smirnoff — neither one exactly a stranger to showing a little skin — have been teamed together.

The nine other pairings — just announced by ABC News — for this season are as follows: Michael Bolton and Chelsie Hightower; Brandy and Maksim Chmerkovskiy; Margaret Cho and Louis Van Amstel; Rick Fox and Cheryl Burke; Jennifer Grey and Derek Hough; David Hasselhoff and Kym Johnson; Florence Henderson and Corky Ballas; Kyle Massey and Lacey Schwimmer; and Audrina Patridge and Tony Dovolani.

The list of professional dancers notably does not include Edyta Sliwinska, who says she is leaving the show to pursue other projects and finish school. “I’m grateful to the show but my life can’t be limited to DWTS,” she Tweeted on Monday.

The new season begins on September 20th.

Karina Smirnoff’s Dream Dancing Partner

Even though Dancing With the Stars pro Karina Smirnoff just returned from a trip to Turks and Caicos with St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Brad Penny, she is hot to trot with John Stamos for the new season of the show, which begins March 22nd.

“I have a wish to dance with John Stamos,” Smirnoff said Thursday at the opening of Haimov Jewelers in Miami. “I wanted him to be my celebrity partner. He finished Bye Bye Birdie on Broadway and he has had enough time to rest.”

Smirnoff says Stamos has been approached about competing on Dancing with the Stars but told her he needs a respite after his stint on Broadway that ended in November. Still, she is holding out hope that he’ll make the right decision.

“I am a workaholic and think he needs to dance with me,” she stated. “I love 12 to 14 hour days of dancing, and I want to do it with John. He could be a great dancer.”

Smirnoff, who competed last season with Aaron Carter, looked tanned and healthy after her vacation in the Caribbean, where she sunned and ran on the beach in a colorful array of tiny bikinis, she said.

“Brad is a really good friend,” Smirnoff said. “We had a blast on the beach. He is amazing and a totally different kind of person who grew up in Oklahoma. He is a real gentleman.”

Aaron Carter: I Grew Up on Dancing with the Stars

Aaron Carter had a breakthrough like few others have had on Dancing with the Stars: He arrived a teen idol but left a man.

“I grew up on the show,” he said after he was eliminated Tuesday night. “There were a lot of epiphany moments and I learned a lot from [pro partner Karina Smirnoff].”

He likened Smirnoff’s support to the way his father encouraged him.

“It was almost like my father a little bit because my dad … taught me so many different things, but the way he did it, he only had to do it once,” he says. “She did the same thing. When it came to learning something about me, she only had to say something one time.”

The couple bounced up and down the leaderboard, and their determination impressed the other dancers, as well as the judges, who praised his fox trot and samba Monday night. Even Len Goodman, who is considered to be the hardest to please, was moved to make some final words about Carter.

“You’re an inspiration to all young people that anything is possible and if you were my son, I would be so proud of you,” Goodman said. “But more importantly, you be proud of yourself, because you’ve been great.”

Kelly Osbourne, who was in the bottom with Carter but advanced to the semi-finals, grabbed Carter afterward and told him he should be proud of what he accomplished on the show.

“To come back week after week after week, after the things people said about him and kick butt the way that he did, he’s turned into man and he should go away believing that,” she said about Carter. “And he made me promise that we would always be friends and I said yes!”

Carter may have worn his emotions on his often-sparkly sleeve, but Smirnoff says she shared the same sentiment. “We have a lot in common. We’re both very ambitious and very competitive,” she says. “There was a part of me that was hoping that we would make it all the way to the top.”

But that wasn’t the case. Instead, the final four heading into next week’s semi-finals will be Osbourne, Mya, Donny Osmond and Joanna Krupa.

Aaron Carter Predicts ‘I’m Going to Win’ Dancing with the Stars

Aaron Carter is quite confident about his chances of winning Dancing with the Stars.

“There are no if’s, and’s or but’s or possibilities or chances,” he said during an interview Monday on 104.3 MY FM’s Valentine in the Morning. “I’m going to win Dancing with the Stars.”

With only the first week of competition down, the pop singer predicts he’ll be in the finale with Donny Osmond and Joanna Krupa, who both also performed well last week.

For Monday night’s performance, Carter will dance a quickstep with his pro partner Karina Smirnoff, who he says he is not dating. “She’s beautiful, but I’ve got to keep it professional,” he said while calling into the radio show.

The show’s hosts reminded Carter of Karina’s past relationships that started in the ballroom with Mario Lopez and her former fiancé Maksim Chmerkovskiy.

“Honestly, why would I want to be in that category?” Carter said. “I’m sorry, but I’m not that guy. I don’t got that kind of time.”

As for injuries, Carter only admits, “My knees hurt but that’s about it.” And he’s got the perfect remedy for the pain: “I take Epsom salt baths,” he said.

Maksim Danced for Karina During Their Emmys Performance

Maksim Chmerkovskiy isn't her No. 1 man anymore, but he said he danced his heart out for ex-fiancé Karina Smirnoff's sake at their Emmy Awards performance Sunday night.

"Honestly the majority of what I did today was because I knew how big of a deal it was for her," he said at the Entertainment Tonight/People after-party, adding that he’d agreed to perform with Smirnoff before they split and wanted to hold up his end of the bargain. "She wants this. She wants to see how she can excel. Dancing at the Emmys was such an amazing spotlight. I just wanted to make sure to give it to her even if it's the last thing I do. So I wanted to do the best job I could, but it was hard."

Hard because he's still smarting from their break-up, announced earlier this month.

"It's difficult, but we're trying to work it out," Chmerkovskiy said of their effort to maintain a friendship. As for the next season of Dancing with the Stars, he says don't expect any problems. "It's not about the show. It's just us. To me it was never about anybody else or the show. It was about us. That's what was important to me. We'll see how it goes."

The fact that the video highlight seemed to play up the tragedy of their split didn't exactly help either, he said, calling the highlight of their DWTS dances together "ridiculous."

"I wasn't nervous, but I got really anxious, he said. "Karina gets nervous. I told her not to turn around for her own good. The lift was the most important. Once we were done with that everything else was a breeze."

Costar Derek Hough – who went through his own break-up with actress and former dance partner Shannon Elizabeth – told People he can sympathize.

"For instance with me and Shannon, we broke up after a year and a half, but we're still really great friends," he said. "We still love each other. It's just a different type of love."

"I think when you really love somebody – you hear who people were dating say, 'Oh, I love this person,' and then after the break-up say, 'Oh, I hate them' – I don’t understand that. When I love somebody I will continue to love them forever and be there."

Maksim & Karina's Last Dance?

The show must go on!

Despite breaking off their engagement earlier this week, Dancing With the Stars pros Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Karina Smirnoff will reunite to perform at the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday, September 20th, CBS and the Television Academy announced on Thursday.

Chmerkovskiy and Smirnoff will perform live in a segment honoring dance in reality television at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles, just one day before Dancing With the Stars kicks off its ninth season.

On the season's Dancing with the Stars, Chmerkovskiy will dance with actress Debi Mazar and Smirnoff is paired with singer Aaron Carter.

The Emmys will be broadcast live at 8:00 pm (ET)on CBS

Maksim and Karina: What Went Wrong?

For many in showbiz it's the time spent apart that kills a relationship. But for Dancing With the Stars pros Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Karina Smirnoff, who split last weekend, the opposite proved true.

"They both knew when they had been spending more time together recently things weren't going so well," a source close to Smirnoff said. "She's not devastated but it obviously hurts, she's angry. She'll always love him and respect him but she always knew in heart of hearts from the beginning of their relationship that he wasn't the one for her."

Chmerkovskiy, 29, and Smirnoff, 31, who had gotten engaged on New Year's Day in Las Vegas, couldn't get past a major hurdle: they didn't see eye-to-eye when it came to children, pals say

"Maks was ready to start a family and have children with Karina, and he came to realize that wasn't really what she wanted," says another source close to the couple. "He's just heartbroken things didn't work out. He'll always respect Karina."

Plus, relations with the relatives were strained. "His family did not want him to marry her," says a Chmerkovskiy friend.

"Even her family thought he may not even be the one," adds the Smirnoff source, who agrees that Smirnoff wasn't ready to have children yet, but wanted to later on. "They think it worked out for the best. She knows she needs to take time to focus on herself and not jump into situations. She wants to focus on work and she'll be fine."

The pair, who were in talks to do their own reality show, will still work closely together when Dancing's ninth season premieres September 21st on ABC.

Maksim Chmerkovskiy & Karina Smirnoff Split!

It looks like Dancing With the Stars' Karina Smirnoff and Maksim Chmerkovskiy will be performing their next dances solo.

The pair, who just last month gushed about how they do everything together, have broken up after about a year, Smirnoff's rep has stated.

"I can confirm that this is true," the rep says. No reason was given and the rep says no further statement would be issued. Chmerkovskiy's rep didn't immediately comment.

Smirnoff, 31, and Chmerkovskiy, 28, who became engaged in December, had planned on getting married in June 2010, but prolonged their engagement in July because of their busy Broadway schedules.

"We're not rushing," Smirnoff said at the time. "As long as we're together, tying the knot is a plus, it's something extra."

The split was first reported by E! Online's Marc Malkin.

Karina Smirnoff Calls Fiancé Maksim Chmerkovskiy ‘Groomzilla’

They dance beautifully together, but planning the wedding may be tricky.

“He’s the groomzilla,” Karina Smirnoff says of fiancé and Dancing with the Stars costar Maksim Chmerkovskiy. “He wants a big wedding and I want it small, so we’re still in negotiations.”

Speaking at Animal Fair magazine’s 10th Annual Paws for Style fashion show sponsored by Svedka on Monday at M2 nightclub in New York, Chmerkovskiy’s bride-to-be explained his demands.

“He wants posh, beautiful … something that’s going to leave memories for the rest of your life,” says Smirnoff, who is costarring on Broadway with Chmerkovskiy in a three-week run of Burn The Floor before returning to Dancing with the Stars.

“I agree with him,” she adds, “but at the same time, I would rather have the memory be at the beach in Bora Bora [for our honeymoon], enjoying beautiful weather and clear water.”

But her “groomzilla” is not the only one making demands. “I told Max, I don’t want to dance,” Smirnoff said. “I do not want to have the first dance. But … he’s going to sing the song that I ask him to sing, which is ‘You Are So Beautiful’ by Joe Cocker. Granted, he may not really sound like Joe Cocker.”

Smirnoff also insists on a storybook gown. “Definitely white,” she said of her wedding dress. “You only supposed to get to wear a big white dress once in your life.”

As for her dream designer, Vera Wang, Smirnoff thinks she may have an in. “You know what the Internet rumor is, that she might be either coming to Dancing with the Stars . . . So I’m going to run up and say, ‘Please!’

Carrie Ann Inaba Presents Maksim Chmerkovskiy & Karina Smirnoff on Broadway

Oprah, move over. Carrie Ann Inaba is now joining the ranks of Broadway producer, too.

The Dancing with the Stars judge has signed on as a name above the title of the Latin and ballroom dance spectacular Burn the Floor, which for the first three weeks of its 12-week run will guest star DWTS's Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Karina Smirnoff in their Broadway debuts.

"I'm thrilled to get my feet wet on Broadway with this wonderful production," Inaba said in a statement Monday. "I've been a fan of Burn the Floor since its inception, and I am honored to be a part of the creative team that is bringing this wonderful show to Broadway."

Conceived, directed, and choreographed by Jason Gilkison, former World Champion Latin and Ballroom dancer and guest choreographer on the fourth season of So You Think You Can Dance, Burn the Floor was created as a special performance at Sir Elton John's 50th birthday in 1997. The stage version made its world premiere in the U.K. in 1999.

Broadway previews begin at the Longacre Theatre this Saturday in anticipation of an August 2nd opening.

Star Sighting: All the Right Moves

And, dip! Karina Smirnoff sweeps fiancé Maksim Chmerkovskiy off his feet as the Dancing with the Stars pros celebrate their engagement Friday at Disneyland in Anaheim, California.

Dancing Pros Maksim Chmerkovskiy & Karina Smirnoff Are Engaged

Dancing with the Stars pros Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Karina Smirnoff are engaged.

Maksim proposed to Karina just before the clock struck midnight on New Year's Eve with a Harry Winston rock for his Dancing costar, a source confirms to E! News.

The news of the engagement comes in the middle of the Dancing tour, and only six months after Karina announced her split with former contestant and dance partner Mario Lopez. Karina, 30, and Maksim, 28, began dating shortly thereafter.

No word from either camp on a possible wedding date. But, you'll have a chance to check out Karina's bling when Dancing with the Stars returns for Season 8 on March 6th.