Tough Break!

We wonder if this has anything do with her messy break-up from Maksim Chmerkovskiy?

Karina Smirnoff will not be appearing on the upcoming season of Dancing with the Stars, but she will keep “helping with the choreography.”

“She’s always been choreographing for the show,” says a source. “She’s a big part of the results shows. She’s like family there.”

Must be like extended family if she got the ax! The new season will have only 11 celebrities instead of 16 so Karina along with Lacey Schwimmer and Jonathan Roberts won’t be returning.

Sucks for Karina, but she’s doing all right — she was just named the latest spokes-celeb for Hydroxycut Advanced.

How very Kardashian of her!

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