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Birth Name | Valentin Aleksandrovich Chmerkovskiy |
Birth place | Odesa, Ukraine |
Husband/Wife | Jenna Johnson |
Height | 6ft ( 183 cm and 1.83m) |
Father | Aleksandr Chmerkovskiy |
Mother | Larisa Chmerkovskaya |
Siblings | 1 |
Net Worth | $7 million |
Zodiac Sign | Aries |
Val Chmerkovskiy is a professional Ukrainian-American dancer and rapper who is 2-time World Latin Champion, once for a junior category and another for the youth.
The 14-time U.S. National Latin Dance champion Val is now popular for being the pro of the ABC dance competition series “Dancing With The Stars” (DWTS).
The DWTS star is now happily married to his lady love and is planning to start a family and have a kid.
Married Life & Wife
Val Chmerkovskiy found love at the show Dancing With The Stars and has been together with his partner Jenna Johnson since 2015.
Val and his girlfriend Jenna Johnson had an on-off relationship for quite some time but in the end, they always found their way back to each other like they were destined.
The DWTS pro, Val proposed to his girlfriend Jenna during their romantic vacation in Venice, Italy in June 2018. Val always thought of Venice as the most romantic place in the world after he visited it at the age of 17 for the first time. After then he promised himself to propose the one he would love to spend the life when he next visit the place. Eventually, as he found the love of his life, he did ket his promise of proposing his lady love.
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After being engaged, the duo tied the knot at the Terranea Resort in Rancho Palo Verdes California on 13 April 2019 and their wedding ceremony was attended by around 200 guests including their DWTS colleagues, DWTS alums, friends, and family.
For their first spin as a husband and wife, they did more spontaneous slow dance. Their first dance song was “‘La Vie en Rose” and it followed with a surprise violin serenade midway through the tune by Val and surprise father and daughter dance to “The Way You Look Tonight” by Jenna and her dad.
The duo also bought a house together in L.A. in 2020 amid the Covid-19 pandemic and after managing the decors they think it’s the perfect place to start a family and have a baby. They even have the baby’s room which is now their storage room covered inboxes.
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Moreover, while Val and Jenna broke up in 2016, Val briefly dated Amber Rose from December 2016 to February 2017. And after Val’s breakup with Amber Rose, he rekindled his relationship with his lady love Jenna and went on a romantic trip to Europe alongside making their relationship Instagram official.
Bio: Family & Siblings
Val Chmerkovskiy was born Valentin Aleksandrovich Chmerkovskiy on 24th March 1986 in Odesa, Ukrainian SSR, the Soviet Union to father Aleksandr Chmerkovskiy and mother Larisa Chmerkovskiy. His parents are also a dancer who runs a dance studio.
Val has an elder brother named Maksim Chmerkovskiy who is also a dancer. His family moved to the US in 1994 and initially, their life in the US was difficult but later, his dad and his brother opened a youth-oriented dance studio in New Jersey.
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Growing up in Brooklyn and New York, Val went to “The Hudson School” and later gained a degree in business management from “Pace University”.
Val holds Ukrainian-American nationality and his zodiac sign is Aries as he celebrates his birthday on 24th March.
According to the wiki, Val Chmerkovskiy is 6ft tall in terms of height which is around 183 cm and 1.83m.
Career And Net Worth
Val was a good dancer from an early age and he had started dancing training by the age of 8. He started dancing in various competitions by the age of 12 and he won his first international dance competition, the “IDSF World Championship” just at the age of 15.
Winning several national and international dance championships, he gradually landed in the American version of the dance reality show ‘Dancing with the Stars’ from season 13 and won the show twice. He won DWTS season 20 with partner Rumer Willis and DWTS season 23 with partner Laurie Hernandez. Furthermore, he also placed 2nd with American actress and singer Zendaya in DWTS season 16 and secured 3rd place 4 times. He won 3rd place first with Kelly Monaco in season 15, then with Janel Parrish in DWTS season 19, likewise, with Ginger Zee in DWTS season 22, and with Normani Kordei in DWTS season 24.
As of now, Val is partnered with social media personality Olivia Jade in the DWTS season 30.
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Additionally, Val also co-owns 9 social studies under the brand name “Dance With Me” which are located in different places.
To sum up, as a professional dancer, rapper, and co-owner of dance studios, Val Chmerkovskiy muster a net worth of about $7 million.
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