Steve Kazee Defends Jenna Dewan Amid DWTS Speculation

Steve Kazee publicly defended his fiancée, Jenna Dewan, after social media users questioned her on-camera chemistry with her Dancing With the Stars partner, Val Chmerkovskiy. Judge Carrie Ann Inaba also urged people not to read more into the dancers’ physical interaction than the performance itself. Kazee responded in comments on an Instagram post discussing the speculation. He wrote that fans had variously claimed the pair had no chemistry, too much chemistry or chemistry in the wrong places, and urged them to make up their minds. He also dismissed the discussion as a sign that people had too much time on their hands, adding that the dancers’ partners were unbothered. In a further reported comment, Kazee asked critics to show Dewan respect and pronounce her name correctly when criticizing her. The accounts of his remarks appeared in coverage of the Instagram discussion; the underlying claims about the dancers’ closeness were fan speculation, not established conduct. Inaba, a judge on the program, also commented on the discussion. She said dancers are physical performers and described the interaction as a normal way of greeting one another.