Their toe-tapping reign may have just ended – but Dancing with the Stars partners Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Debi Mazar will always share a strong bond.
What helped solidify that friendship? Chmerkovskiy’s split from ex-fiancée Karina Smirnoff.
“She has been so good to me,” Chmerkovskiy tells PEOPLE. “She’s helped me through this whole thing so much. My family is in New York and I don’t have anybody here in L.A. so when [we split] Debi would call me and say, ‘If you need a home cooked meal, come over.’ “
“She was like, ‘Get over here. You’ll be out in 10 minutes. I just want you to eat well,’ ” he says. “So she was very good. Very cool.”
Though they may not be dancing together now, perhaps there’s room for another professional collaboration soon?
“I actually wanted to bring her on the [red] carpet with me as [her Entourage character] Shauna,” Chmerkovskiy says, joking that Mazar, who plays a publicist on the HBO show, could represent him. “She was like, ‘Oh my god, I would have totally done it.’ ” -– Jessica Herndon
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