Early life and career

Chmerkovskiy was born in the Ukrainian city of Odessa, in what was then the Soviet Union. His parents are Aleksandr "Sasha" Chmerkovskiy and Larisa Chmerkovskaya. His older brother, Maksim Chmerkovskiy (born 1980), is also a professional dancer who appears on DWTS. His father is Jewish and his mother is Christian.

The family immigrated to Brooklyn in 1994 where Chmerkovskiy attended yeshiva in Borough Park. In 1996, Maksim and Sasha opened a youth-oriented dance studio in New Jersey, and Valentin was one of the students. In 2001, Valentin and partner Diana Olonetskaya, 15, became the first American dance team to win a world junior championship title.

Val went to college and majored in Business Management.

Dancing with the Stars

Valentin first appeared on season 2, February 10, 2006, as a student of his brother during Week 6. The students were: Valentin & Valeriya Kozharinova, Sergei Onik & Michelle Glazarov and Boris Leokumovich & Nicole Volynets. The couples performed two numbers.

Valentin then appeared once again on season 4 results show on May 8, 2007. He starred in a dance off against his brother, Maksim Chmerkovskiy.

Chmerkovskiy appeared on the season 10 results show on April 6, 2010. He did a country western themed routine with his brother Maksim, Edyta Śliwińska and Snejana Petrova.

He appeared on the season 11 results show on October 5, 2010, performing a music and dance duel against Mark Ballas. While performing to the song "Toxic" by Britney Spears, Val played the violin and danced with Lacey Schwimmer.

In season 13, Chmerkovskiy was partnered with model/actress Elisabetta Canalis. They were eliminated second, finishing in 11th place.

In season 14, Chmerkovskiy was partnered with comedian/talk show host Sherri Shepherd. On Rock Week (Week 4) of DWTS, they were the third couple to be eliminated, finishing in 10th place.

Chmerkovskiy danced as a professional partner in season 15 with season 1 winner, Kelly Monaco. They finished in third place on the season finale.

For season 16, Chmerkovskiy was partnered with Disney Channel's Shake It Up star, Zendaya. On May 21, Zendaya and Val came in second place behind Derek Hough and Kellie Pickler.

For season 17, he paired with film and television actress Elizabeth Berkley Lauren. Despite receiving high scores, they were eliminated on week 9, finishing in sixth place.

For season 18, he paired with actress and author Danica McKellar. They were eliminated on Week 8 and ended in sixth place.

For season 19, he was paired with Pretty Little Liars actress Janel Parrish. They made it to the finals and finished in third place.

For season 20, he was paired with actress and singer Rumer Willis. On May 19, 2015, Willis and Chmerkovskiy were crowned the winners marking Chmerkovskiy's first win.

For season 21, he was partnered with R&B singer and reality television star, Tamar Braxton. On November 11, 2015, Braxton revealed that she had to withdraw from the competition due to health issues.

For season 22, he was partnered with meteorologist Ginger Zee. The couple made it to the finals but ultimately ended in third place.

Season	Partner	Place
13	Elisabetta Canalis	11th
14	Sherri Shepherd	10th
15	Kelly Monaco	3rd
16	Zendaya	2nd
17	Elizabeth Berkley Lauren	6th
18	Danica McKellar	6th
19	Janel Parrish	3rd
20	Rumer Willis	1st
21	Tamar Braxton	5th
22	Ginger Zee	3rd

• Coincidentally, Val has had exactly the same outcome in his first four seasons on Dancing with the Stars as his older brother Maksim had on his first four seasons on the show; eliminated before the finals on his first two seasons, third place on his third, and the runner-up on his fourth season.
• Val shares a record originally set by Mark Ballas of having the most celebrity partners (three) to never individually score less than 8 from any judge. He is also the only professional to go three consecutive seasons without ever scoring less that an eight (16, 17, 18) with Zendaya, Elizabeth Berkley Lauren & Danica McKellar.
• Val and his season 19 partner Janel Parrish hold the record for the earliest perfect score, receiving it during week 3 (matched by Bethany Mota & Derek Hough later in the same show).

With celebrity partner Elisabetta Canalis (Average: 18.0)

Week #	Dance/Song	Judges' score			Result
		Inaba	Goodman	Tonioli
1	Cha-cha-cha / "Last Friday Night"	5	5	5	Safe
2	Quickstep / "Don't Get Me Wrong"	7	7	7	Eliminated

With celebrity partner Sherri Shepherd (Average: 22.8)

Week #	Dance/Song	Judges' score			Result
		Inaba	Goodman	Tonioli
1	Foxtrot / "Sherry"	8	7	8	No Elimination
2	Jive / "Proud Mary"	8	7	8	Safe
3	Rumba / "If I Could"	8	8	8	Safe
4	Tango / "Come On Feel the Noise"	7	7	7	Eliminated

With celebrity partner Kelly Monaco (Average: 26.8)

Week #	Dance/Song	Judges' score			Result
		Inaba	Goodman	Tonioli
1	Cha-cha-cha / "Bang Bang"	7.0	7.0	7.5	Safe
2	Quickstep / "Who Says"	7.5	7.0	7.5	Safe
3	Paso Doble / "España cañí"	9.0	9.0	9.0	Safe
4	Contemporary / "Fix You"	9.0	9.5/9.5	9.5	Safe
5	Samba / "Want U Back" Team Freestyle (Gilles) / "Gangnam Style"	8.0 9.0	8.0 9.0	8.5 9.0	No Elimination
6	Tango / "Good Girl" Group Country Western / "Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)" & "I Play Chicken with a Train"	9.0 No	9.0 Scores	9.0 Given	Safe
7	Foxtrot & Cha-cha-cha / "Don't Stop" Swing Marathon / "Do Your Thing"	9.0 Awarded	9.0 9	9.0 Points	No Elimination
8	Viennese Waltz / "I'll Be" Jive (Trio Challenge) / "Animal"	9.5 9.5	9.0 9.5	9.5 9.5	Safe
9	Flamenco / "Malagueña" Rumba / "I Just Can't Stop Loving You"	8.0 9.5	9.0 9.5	8.5 9.5	Last to be Called Safe
10	Paso Doble / "España cañí" Freestyle / "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" Instant Jive / "Cat and Mouse"	9.5 10.0 9.5	10.0 9.5 9.5	10.0 10.0 9.5	Third Place

With celebrity partner Zendaya (Average: 27.3)

Week #	Dance/Song	Judges' score			Result
		Inaba	Goodman	Tonioli
1	Contemporary / "Feel Again"	8	8	8	No Elimination
2	Jive / "This Head I Hold"	9	8	9	Safe
3	Prom Group Dance / "The Rockafeller Skank" Viennese Waltz / "Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)"	Awarded 8	2 8	Points 8	Safe
4	Samba / "Love On Top"	9	8	9	Safe
5	Argentine Tango / "Discombobulate"	10	9	10	Safe
6	Cha-cha-cha / "Do I Do" Team Paso Doble / "Higher Ground"	10 7	9 8	10 7	Safe
7	Paso Doble / "Buster Voodoo" Jive Dance Off / "Good Golly Miss Molly"	9 Awarded	9 3	9 Points	Safe
8	Foxtrot / "Don't Worry, Be Happy" Salsa (Trio Challenge) / "Dança Molengo"	9 10	10 10	9 10	Safe
9	Quickstep / "Don't Give Up" Hip-Hop / "Fine China"	8 10	8 10	9 10	Last to be Called Safe
10	Samba / "Yerbatero" Cha-cha-cha Relay / "Treasure" Freestyle / "Beauty and a Beat" Instant Jive / "Rockin' Robin"	10 Awarded 10 10	10 5 10 10	10 Points 10 10	Runners-Up

With celebrity partner Elizabeth Berkley Lauren (Average: 26.5)

Week #	Dance/Song	Judges' score			Result
		Inaba	Goodman	Tonioli
1	Contemporary / "Imagine"	8	8	8	No Elimination
2	Samba / "Straight to Memphis"	8	9	8	Safe
3	Foxtrot / "Come Fly with Me"	8	9	8	Safe
4	Argentine Tango / "Symphony 6: Fair Thee Well & the Requiem Mix"	9	9*	9	Safe
5	Jive / "I'm So Excited"	8	9	9	Safe
6	Cha-cha-cha / "Put Your Hands on Me" Switch-Up Challenge / Various	10 Awarded	10 2	10 Points	No Elimination
7	Quickstep / "Dance Apocalyptic" Team Freestyle / "Bom Bom"	9 9	9 9	9 9	Safe
8	Jazz / "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)" Cha-cha-cha Dance Off / "Woman's World"	8 Lost	9* This	8 Event	Safe
9	Viennese Waltz / "Young and Beautiful" Salsa (Trio Challenge) / "Pucko"	9 10	8 10	9 10	Eliminated

• Week 4 Score was given by guest judge Julianne Hough.
• Week 8 Score was given by guest judge Cher.

With celebrity partner Danica McKellar (Average: 26.3)

Week #	Dance/Song	Judges' score			Result
		Inaba	Goodman	Tonioli
1	Foxtrot / "Walk Away"	8	8	8	No Elimination
2	Samba / "All Nite (Don't Stop)"	8	8	8	Safe
3	Contemporary / "Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel)"	9	9/91	9	Safe
42	Jive / "Love Me Right!"	8	8/83	8	No Elimination
5	Quickstep / "Be Our Guest"	10	9/104	10	Safe
6	Cha-cha-cha / I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)	9	95/9	9	Safe
7	Salsa / "Watch Out For This (Bumaye)" Team Freestyle / "Livin' la Vida Loca"	8 10	96/8 106/9	8 10	Safe
8	Tango /"Everybody Wants to Rule the World" Celebrity Dance Duel (Samba) /"I Luh Ya Papi"	10 8	9/97 9/87	10 9	Eliminated

With celebrity partner Janel Parrish (Average: 36.5 )

Week #	Dance/Song	Judges' score				Result
		Inaba	Goodman	Hough	Tonioli
1	Jive / "Bang Bang"	7	7	7	8	Safe
2	Foxtrot / "Call Me Maybe"	9	8	8	9	Safe
3	Jazz / "America"	10	101	10	10	Safe
4	Rumba / "How Will I Know"	9	92	9	9	Safe
53	Burlesque / "Mamma Knows Best"	8	84	8	9	No Elimination
6	Samba / "La Vida Es Un Carnaval"	8	75	9	9	Last to be called safe
7	Viennese Waltz / "Secret" Team Freestyle / "Black Widow"	8 9	7 9	8 9	8 9	Safe
8	Contemporary / "Everybody's Free (To Feel Good)"	10	10	10	10	Safe (Immunity)
9	Quickstep / "Hey Boy, Hey Girl" Salsa (Trio Challenge) /"Morning Drums"	9 10	10 9	10 10	9 10	Safe
10	Paso Doble / "Blame Argentine Tango / "Blame" (acoustic version)	10 9	10 9	10 10	10 10	Safe
11	Samba / "La Vida Es Un Carnaval" Freestyle / "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" Foxtrot & Paso Doble (fusion) / "Hideaway"	9 10 10	10 10 10	9 10 10	9 10 10	Third Place

With celebrity partner Rumer Willis (Average: 37.0)

Week #	Dance/Song	Judges' score				Result
		Inaba	Goodman	Hough	Tonioli
1	Foxtrot / "Take Me to Church"	8	8	8	8	No Elimination
2	Cha-cha-cha / "Rumour Has It"	8	8	8	8	Safe
3	Salsa / "Turn The Beat Around"	8	9	8	8	Safe
4	Waltz / "Turning Tables"	9	8	9	9	Safe
5	Samba / "Poor Unfortunate Souls"	10	9	10	10	Safe
6	Jazz / "Bootylicious" Team Freestyle / "Trouble"	8 10	8 9	7 10	9 10	Safe
7	Jive / "Dear Future Husband" Foxtrot Dance-Off / "Orange Colored Sky"	8 Awarded	9 2	9 Extra	9 Points	Last to be called safe
8	Rumba / "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps" Paso Doble (Trio Challenge) / "Scott & Fran's Paso Doble"	10 10	10 10	10 10	10 10	Safe
9	Viennese Waltz / "Earned It" Contemporary / "Theme from Swan Lake, Op. 20"	10 10	9 10	9 10	10 -	Last to be called safe
10	Foxtrot / "Take Me to Church" Freestyle / "Toxic" Foxtrot & Paso Doble (fusion) / "Big Jet Plane"	10 10 10	10 10 10	10 10 10	10 10 10	Winner

With celebrity partner Tamar Braxton (Average: 25.4)

Week #	Dance/Song	Judges' score			Result
		Inaba	Hough	Tonioli
1	Quickstep / "Do Your Thing"	8	7	8	No Elimination
2	Cha-cha-cha / "We Are Family" Charleston / "Living in New York City"	8 8	8 8	8 9	Safe
3	Tango / "A Beautiful Mine"	8	91/8	8	Safe
4	Rumba / "King"	9	9	9	Safe
52	Samba / "End of Time"	7	7/83	7	No Elimination
6	Jazz / "Rhythm Nation"	10	10/104	10	Safe
7	Foxtrot / "People are Strange" Team Freestyle / "This Is Halloween"	8 10	8 10	8 10	Last to be called safe
8	Paso Doble / "Born This Way" Cha-cha-cha Dance-Off / "Fun"	9 No	9 Extra	10 Points	Safe
9	Contemporary5/ "Wicked Game" Team-Up Dance (Rumba) / "Hey Jude"	8 9	7 9	7 9	Safe
10	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	Withdrew

With celebrity partner Ginger Zee (Average: 26.3)

Week #	Dance/Song	Judges' score			Result
		Inaba	Goodman	Tonioli
1	Jive / "Move (You're Steppin' on My Heart)"	8	7	8	No Elimination
2	Samba / "Sorry"	7	7	7	Safe
3	Contemporary / "Home"	7	7	7	Safe
4	Foxtrot / "Belle"	9	9/91	9	Safe
52	Salsa / "La Malanga"	8	8/83	8	No Elimination
6	Jazz / "Nasty"	8	8	8	Safe
7	Viennese Waltz / "I Have Nothing" Team Freestyle / "End of Time", "If I Were a Boy" & "Crazy in Love"	10 8	10 8	10 9	Safe
8	Argentine Tango / "Telephone" Team-up Dance (Samba) / "Jump in the Line (Shake, Senora)"	10 10	10 93	10 10	Safe
9	Trio Paso Doble / "Shot Me Down" Quickstep / "Fire Under My Feet"	9 9	9 10	9 10	Safe
10	Contemporary / "Adventure of a Lifetime" Freestyle / "Orange Colored Sky" Argentine Tango & Foxtrot Fusion / "Just Like Fire"	9 10 9	10 10 9	9 10 9	Third Place

Personal life

Chmerkovskiy is a co-owner of six competitive dance studios under the brand "Dance With Me." Five are in the New York metropolitan area (Glen Rock and Fort Lee in New Jersey, Glen Head, Long Island, SoHo, Manhattan and Stamford, Connecticut) and one is in Sherman Oaks, California.

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