'Dancing With the Stars': Charlotte McKinney Slams Bruno Tonioli for Controversial Comment
After only three weeks on "Dancing With the Stars," Carl's Jr. model Charlotte McKinney was booted off the competition on Monday night. The model struggled from the beginning as she said that she didn't want to be known just for her physical attributes. However, she and her partner Keo Motsepe kept landing on the bottom of the leaderboard and on Monday's show, the ever-patient Motsepe appeared to have lost his cool with her as she was always on her phone during their rehearsal.
Though their performance on Monday was an improvement over their past weeks' dances, the judges were hard on her as they said that they knew that she has the potential to succeed, if only she'd focus and work hard on it.
One particularly controversial remark came from Bruno Tonioli.
"Listen my darling, you're never going to win the Nobel Prize for Quantum Physics, but you are easy on the eye," he said. His remark was met with gasps and loud boos from the crowd, and Tonioli, catching on, covered his mouth with his hands and quickly said, "I'm sorry."
Speaking to E! News, McKinney hit back at Tonioli's comments.
"I just believe it was super uncalled for," she said. "Especially after last week with the bullying and talking about being nice and I didn't see where it came from. We aren't talking about being smart or anything like that. So it was just uncalled for."
McKinney was referring to week 2 of the competition wherein she said during their rehearsal package that she was bullied in school and had to drop out due to the bullying. Moreover, she revealed that she has dyslexia.
"Dancing with the Stars" airs on Mondays at 8 p.m. on ABC.
