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Kirstie Alley and Maksim Chmerkovskiy fall on ‘Dancing With the Stars,’ get back up

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Kirstie Alley may have leaned a little too much on ‘Dancing With the Stars’ partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy during their rumba Monday night, leading to the painful tumble the pair took in the ballroom.

Chmerkovskiy, her professional partner on the show whom the Ministry likes to call ‘the shirtless wonder,’ said that his thigh gave out and he experienced a ‘charlie horse’ during their routine.

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Before they performed, Alley said the dance was supposed to reflect a really difficult time in her life when she lost her mother in a car accident in the 1980s. Perhaps Alley saying it showed ‘the agony and the ecstasy’ was live television’s version of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

The sweet dance, set to Israel Kamakawio’ole’s version of ‘Over the Rainbow,’ started off serenely dramatic until the thigh issue. Watch the video above.

The poor shirtless wonder struggled to get up and back on count after taking a few seconds to recover.

‘It was sweet. He just looked at me and said, ‘Let’s keep dancing,’’ Alley told E! of the fall. ‘And I thought, ‘I like that.’ I have the best partner!’

And Chmerkovskiy said he was pretty embarrassed by the whole thing. ‘To all the fans...I’m sorry! It will never happen again and I will never ‘fall’! To @kirstiealley You were..FLAWLESS! In more ways than one!’ he tweeted post-show.

Hear that George Lopez?

‘woke up to all of your supportive tweets..humbled..It’s good to know that u are in this game with us come RAIN or come SHINE....thank u,’ Alley tweeted Tuesday morning. Adding, ‘Maks is too humble.. we all know it takes TWO to Tango..on our feet or on our asses...it takes TWO ..I will do better from now on...xoxo.’

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But the dance was still pretty stunning and like Bruno Tonioli told Alley, ‘Once you got up it was better than ever,’ scoring the pair 21 points out of 30.

What did you think of the dance? Was it agony or ecstasy to watch? Tell us in comments.

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— Nardine Saad
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