‘DWTS’ Pro Val Chmerkovskiy To Miss Halloween Night: Why He Won’t Be In The Ballroom

Val Chmerkovskiy volition not beryllium dancing successful the ballroom with Gabby Windey during the Dancing With the Stars Halloween episode, which airs connected October 31. The DWTS pro revealed connected October 28 successful an Instagram video that helium had tested affirmative for COVID-19.

“I’ve got immoderate atrocious news, I unluckily tested affirmative for COVID and volition not beryllium capable to execute this Monday,” Val said. “It sucks majorly — for deficiency of a better, much profound word. But the bully happening is that Gabby tested antagonistic truthful we’re inactive successful it.”

Val revealed that Alan Bersten, who was recently eliminated with Jessie James Decker, volition beryllium stepping successful for him connected Halloween Night. Val noted that helium would “be backmost adjacent week” if helium and Gabby are not eliminated.

“This is simply a immense bummer, I’m precise disappointed,” helium continued. “I consciousness similar I fto immoderate radical down, and selfishly, was truly looking guardant to this week’s routine, being Halloween, being Argentine Tango. I truly emotion this regular but the bully happening is Gabby knows it, Gabby’s acceptable and Alan’s gonna bash a large occupation and you guys are gonna ballot america through, truthful I’ll beryllium backmost adjacent week.”

In the comments section, Val added that his wife, Jenna Johnson, is feeling fine. “Wifey is bully too. She tested negative,” helium wrote. Jenna is presently expecting the couple’s archetypal child. Gabby besides wrote, “We’ll miss you!! Just privation Jenna to enactment harmless and you to consciousness better!”

Val Chmerkovskiy and Gabby Windey connected ‘DWTS.’ (Disney+)

Val and Gabby are frontrunners of play 31. They precocious earned the archetypal cleanable people of the play for their fierce tango connected Prom Night. “Everything astir that was perfect,” justice Derek Hough said aft their performance.

Val isn’t the archetypal DWTS pro to trial affirmative for COVID-19 this season. Daniella Karagach had to miss 2 weeks of the competition aft investigating positive. Thankfully, her spouse Joseph Baena and husband Pasha Pashkov did not trial affirmative astatine immoderate point.