Former Dancing With the Stars pro Maks Chmerkovskiy has notes for Rylee Arnold after her elimination from season 34 alongside partner Scott Hoying.

“He was completely undertaught,” Chmerkovskiy, 45, said on the Friday, October 24, episode of the “Penthouse With Peta” podcast, referring to the Pentatonix singer. “This is not a dig at Rylee.”

Chmerkovskiy pointed to one moment in the pair’s Wicked Night contemporary routine — which earned all 7s from judges Carrie Ann Inaba, Derek Hough, Bruno Tonioli and guest judge Wicked director Jon M. Chu — where Hoying looked “caught off guard” when lifting Arnold.

“This particular moment, I’m not digging at Rylee,” Chmerkovskiy continued. “I believe that this is a matter of experience for Rylee to understand that, in this case, he needed her to be

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