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Rock legend Gene Simmons has infuriated Dancing with the Stars viewers, who discovered his feedback directed at lots of the feminine celebrities and dancers to be “misogynistic” and “creepy.”
The co-founder and co-lead singer of rock band Kiss, 75, was welcomed because the celeb visitor choose on Tuesday’s (October 8) episode of the ABC actuality dance competitors collection.
Sitting among the many panel of judges, Carrie Ann Inaba, Bruno Tonioli and Derek Hough, Simmons took turns chiming in to supply suggestions to the contestants after their routines.
Nevertheless, he appeared to focus a number of his consideration and reward on the contestants’ bodily attributes.
Talking to 24-year-old actor and singer Chandler Kinney following her Jive with accomplice Brandon Armstrong, Simmons quipped: “Chandler, you fogged up my glasses.
“You moved me, not together with your gyrations… however your lovely face and the way you have been into the emotion of it – prime to backside,” the “See You Tonite” singer mentioned earlier than directing his consideration to Armstrong, saying: “You’re fairly good too.”
Earlier within the evening, a shirtless Danny Amendola carried out the Paso Doble together with his accomplice Whitney Carson.
“This can be a model new expertise for me,” Simmons mentioned, “and it’s tough to take a look at each of you and to determine which one is extra scorching, scorching, scorching.”
When fellow choose Tonioli tried to counsel that he might go “each methods,” Simmons wagged his finger whereas insisting: “No, no, no.”
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He as a substitute continued to inform Amendola: “You might be proper subsequent to anyone – one of many extra lovely ladies on the planet – she makes you look good.”
Elsewhere within the episode, he referred to Household Issues alum Reginald VelJohnson’s dance accomplice Emma Slater as “a good looking girl” who can “twist and switch it and is aware of how you can transfer it and all that.”
Throughout and after the evening’s episode, a number of viewers took to X to specific their anger at Simmons’ feedback, with one writing: “Can we get Gene Simmons off the stage instantly pls i can not take these misogynistic feedback.”
“Gene Simmons is critically sucking all of the vitality out of the ballroom together with his creepy feedback in regards to the feminine dancers,” a second agreed.
A 3rd mentioned: “Hey gene! simply wanna remind you that this can be a dancing present, NOT a magnificence contest. respectfully by no means come again pls and thanks #DWTS.”
“Gene Simmons hitting on each respiration girl in that rattling ballroom,” a fourth tweeted, alongside a gif of Dance Mothers star Abby Lee Miller angrily saying: “I’ve had it, sufficient.”
One other argued that he made “the worst visitor choose on Dancing with the Stars,” with one other calling on ABC to “difficulty an apology after having Gene Simmons on there and subjecting their solid to that. Why didn’t a producer inform him to knock it off?”
The Unbiased has contacted ABC and Simmons’ consultant for remark.
The fourth week of the competitors resulted in one other double elimination, sending each VelJohnson and actor Eric Roberts house.
Dancing with the Stars airs Tuesdays on ABC at 8pm with episodes out there to stream on Hulu the following day.
