DWTS’ Maksim Looks for Love on Ukraine’s ‘Bachelor’!

Maksim Chmerkovskiy will be bringing his bad-boy charm and swagger that made millions love him on “Dancing with the Stars” to his Ukranian homeland when he becomes the country’s first star of “The Bachelor.”

This might come as a surprise to Maks’ fans as the professional dancer claimed he turned down the American version of “The Bachelor” because he didn’t think the American contestants were sincere about finding love.

The dancer, who was once engaged to fellow “DWTS” pro Karina Smirnoff, addressed the apparent hypocrisy on his blog (maksimchmerkovskiy.com), writing, “There has never been a show such as this in Ukraine and it makes me think that a first season would be the most ‘real’ as far as participant’s perception of ‘what its [sic] all about’ is concerned…I do believe that I am smart enough to tell who here is after some 15-minute fame and who is here for the right reasons.”

Chmerkovskiy, 30, also said he wants to do the show as a way to give back to the country he came from and inspire people. “My family and I left when I was very young and to have made something of myself, to come back here as a person to be looked up to, is an amazing feeling,” he wrote.

But, the most important reason for doing “The Bachelor,” he says, is because it’s the “first thing in a VERY LONG TIME that I’m doing for ME. For the first time I don’t really care what people think. First time that I’m not being ‘judged’, ‘placed’ or ‘criticized’ (well, maybe criticized, but you know what I mean),” he wrote.