Hot, hot dancer

My favorite ballroom dancer is Maksim Chmerkovskiy. No surprise there, right ladies?

He's absolutely gorgeous.

I didn't realize it, but he has never taken part in the "Dancing With the Stars" tour. According to TV Guide, he's never even see the tour.

But he'll be taking over as the tour choreographer from Louis van Amstel.

“What’s made me different as a choreographer will make this tour different,” he told TV Guide Magazine, promising to make the dances as interesting as possible.

The tour starts in December. He won't be able to choose which dancers will make in tour. Maks had to drop out of this season's "DWTS" because his partner, Misty May-Treanor blew out her Achilles heel tendon.

Chmerkovskiy says he wants a cast who “are capable of starting and finishing strong. And can learn the dances fast.”

The tour typically comes to Atlanta. This may be on that I might have to buy a ticket to see!

Update: I just saw that the tour will be 7:30 p.m. Jan. 25 in the Arena at Gwinnett Center in Duluth, 6400 Sugarloaf Parkway.

Scheduled to be on the tour are Lance Bass, Toni Braxton, Maurice Greene, Marlee Matlin, Mark Ballas, Derek Hough, Kym Johnson, Lacey Schwimmer, Karina Smirnoff and Fabian Sanchez. Cloris Leachman will be busy. She's filming a movie with Quentin Tarantino. You know, the one starring Brad Pitt.

Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Monday. They are $52.50-$168. Yikes! Maybe I won't be going after all.

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