DWTS’ Val Chmerkovskiy Reflects on His and Jenna Johnson’s Emmy Loss

Dancing With the Stars professional Val Chmerkovskiy is reflecting on his and spouse Jenna Johnson’s loss on the 2024 Artistic Arts Emmys.

“We didn’t win tonight, however what an honor it was to be in that room. Congrats to Karla Garcia and to the entire nominees. Until subsequent time 🏆 #emmys,” Chmerkovskiy, 38, wrote through Instagram on Saturday, September 7.

“Additionally, I simply love you a lot @jennajohnson ❤️ my trophy, my pleasure, my peace,” he added. “Needed this for you greater than something. However we’ll do it once more.”

Alongside the candy message, Chmerkovskiy shared a sequence of snaps from the night, together with behind-the-scenes photographs from the awards present.

Johnson, 30, replied, “Artwork is limitless.. let’s conserving making it 💘💘.”

Johnson additionally gushed with gratitude for being nominated, whereas sharing her personal pink carpet pictures with Chmerkovskiy.

“Child’s first EMMYS 🤍,” Johnson wrote through Instagram. “I’ve dreamed of this second for therefore lengthy. My artists coronary heart is stuffed to the brim with pleasure that immediately has been a actuality. I cried within the automotive on our technique to the present as a result of I couldn’t imagine that little Jenna’s dream of being an expert dancer in LA at some point lead her to this. Leaving past impressed that I sat in a room stuffed artistic genius’s!! Without end grateful 🫶🏼✨💃🏻🕺🏻🌟.”

Chmerkovskiy and Johnson have been nominated for the Excellent Choreography for Selection or Actuality Programming award for his or her dance tribute for former choose Len Goodman throughout DWTS season 32. (Goodman died at age 78 in April 2023 after a personal battle with prostate most cancers.)

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Alongside the dance, the ABC sequence renamed the Mirrorball Trophy in his honor. Chmerkovskiy and his season 32 companion, Xochitl Gomez, have been the primary recipients of the award.

“It feels loopy,” Gomez, 18, solely informed Us Weekly after taking dwelling the trophy in December 2023. “I believe it’s going to take me a minute to totally register. I imply, even once I discovered I used to be a superhero, I used to be like, ‘What? Are you for actual?’ It took me, like, per week.”

Chmerkovskiy added, “There’s so many parts. There’s so many variables that you just don’t have management over. So, we simply actually simply centered on squeezing each ounce of enjoyable and pleasure out of it.”