There’s a battle going on in the “Dancing with the Stars” ballroom, but on Monday night, it wasn’t the playful rivalry between J.R. Martinez and Ricki Lake for the top spot on the leaderboard that took the spotlight.
Instead, it was professional ballroom dancer Maksim Chmerkovskiy who took on the judges – and in particular, Len Goodman – for what he seemed to suggest was an unwillingness on the judges’ part to critique the celebrity contestants on equal criteria.
