Aaron Carter Not Dating Karina Smirnoff
It happens almost every season on Dancing with the Stars, and this time around it’s partners Karina Smirnoff and Aaron Carter debunking the buzz that they’re getting cozy off the dance floor. “It’s really funny,” Smirnoff, 31, told PEOPLE after Monday night’s performance. “The rumors are that we are hooking up but then we’re not sexy enough on the dance floor (according to head judge Len Goodman)? Let me tell you, if that was the case, the dance would have been very raunchy, as Len wanted it to be.”
For Carter, 21, the rumors are off the mark from what’s really happening between the two of them: a budding friendship. “We have a lot of respect for each other and I have a lot of respect for her,” he says. “She’s a lady and I’m going to treat her like that. She just went through a breakup so it’s important to respect her.”