Val Chmerkovskiy, Dancing with the Stars

- Full name: Valentin Aleksandrovich Chmerkovskiy

- Age: 30

- Born: March 24, 1986

- Hometown: Odessa, Ukraine

- Height: 6'0"

- Occupation: Professional dancer and choreographer

- Currently touring with older brother and former DWTS pro Maksim Chmerkovskiy in their own dance show

- Found his passion for dancing at age 7

- Won his first IDSF World Championship at age 15 and became the first American to do it

- Opened "Dance with Me" studio in Stamford, CT, in 2012

- Two-time World Latin Dance Champion (Junior and Youth) and a 14-time U.S. National Latin Dance champion

- Won Dancing with the Stars' twentieth season with actress Rumer Willis
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- Competed on 10 seasons of Dancing with the Stars altogether

- Finished the latest season of DWTS in third place with GMA meteorologist Ginger Zee




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Elizabeth Kwiatkowski is Associate Editor of Reality TV World and has been covering the reality TV genre for more than a decade.