KISS legend Gene Simmons has been slammed for feedback he made final evening as a visitor decide throughout “Hair Metal Night” on hit competitors TV present Dancing With the Stars.

This week’s episode featured pairs of contestants performing choreographed dance routines to a few of the largest and hottest hits of the hair steel period. The opening sequence even featured a cameo from Whitesnake guitarist Joel Hoekstra taking part in a smoking guitar to a canopy of KISS’ “Rock and Roll All Nite.”

Dancing With the Stars — Hair Metal Night Opening

All-timers by Poison, Warrant, Twisted Sister, Bon Jovi, Whitesnake, Scorpions, Aerosmith, Europe and Quiet Riot had been amongst the tunes that had been chosen.

And whereas Simmons wasn’t a fixture of the hair steel period, his extremely celeb standing and infamous rocker persona makes him an apparent candidate for a visitor look.

But what did he say that has others lashing out? We’ll break that down, in addition to the responses, beneath.

Some of Gene Simmons’ Comments

The panel of judges rating the routine on a scale of 1 to 10 and Simmons was booed by the studio viewers a number of time for doling out scores that felt off-center.

It’s been famous that Simmons’ suggestions was extra concentrated on bodily appearances slightly than the execution of the dance routine. And regardless of giving one tandem (Phaedra Parks of The Real Housewives of Atlanta and Val Chmerkovskiy) a rating of 5 out of 10 — two factors decrease than the different two judges — the KISS icon supplied little critique.

He later awarded an ideal rating to a different dancing tandem (mannequin Brooks Nader and Gleb Savchenko) and seemingly upset viewers when telling 72-year-old actor Reginald VelJohnson of Family Matters and Die Hard fame (by way of Blabbermouth):

Hey Reggie, you’ve got bought a ravishing lady proper beside you who can twist it and switch it and is aware of learn how to transfer it and all that. But I wish to inform you, as a man that is been on the stage for half a century round the world, I’m sort of an enormous deal, Reggie. It’s all in the perspective. And you’ve got bought one thing in that stunning face. They love you.

The producers really amended Simmons’ rating and bumped it from 10 to 9.

This unbalanced and perceived biased strategy reaped unfavourable feedback from viewers.

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Viewers Slam Simmons Over Remarks

Simmons’ constant remarks about the bodily look of ladies contestants and low scores had been known as out my numerous viewers on social media.

Below is a sampling that displays a a lot denser condemnation of the KISS rocker following his Dancing With the Stars look as a star decide.

Many known as him “creepy” and felt his perspective was misogynistic.

One individual quoted Simmons’ commentary of, “You have a beautiful woman beside you” with a GIF of a person screaming, “Shut the fuck up!”

Other viewers known as out the low scores and the good 10 they felt was not deserved.

And it appears to be like like some are hoping to by no means see Gene Simmons again on Dancing With the Stars ever once more.