Well, at least he isn’t bitter…..

Maks and Karina began dating last winter, shortly after her public split from notorious womanizer Mario Lopez. After a nine-month engagement, the dancing duo called it quits in September, but have had to see each other daily on the ABC hit. The daily run-ins have been anything but pleasant for Maks, who claims that despite Karina’s declarations to the contrary, the exes are no longer friends.

“No,” Maks replied when asked whether he is still friends with Karina at the LA County Fair on Sept. 27. “She’s a lot better at hiding her feelings apparently than I am. I just need to drop the sad person act and move on.”

The stunning 31-year-old stopped wearing fur after watching footage of baby seals being killed for their pelts.

“I did wear fur, especially when I was growing up in the Ukraine,” the fancy-footed beauty reveals in an interview with PETA. “But there are ways of being warm and being fashionable without being cruel.”

Smirnoff joins a growing list of celebrities–including Christina Applegate, Sophie Monk, Khloe Kardashian, Nia Long, and Kimora Lee Simmons –who have starred in PETA’s anti-fur ad campaign.

Smirnoff, 31, and Chmerkovskiy, 28, became engaged in December and had planned on getting married in June 2010, but prolonged their engagement in July due to their busy theater schedules.

“I am confirming that they did indeed break up,” says a rep for Karina — who began dating her DWTS co-star after a messy split with former flame Mario Lopez.

The dancers became engaged in December 2008 but plan wait until next summer for their wedding.
Maksim and Karina have hired a wedding planner for their June 2010.

“We don’t plan [the wedding],” Maksim told PEOPLE Magazine on Friday. “We’re [working] 14 hours a day. This is our life right now,” he said. “We’re not rushing,” Karina added. “As long as we’re together, tying the knot is a plus, it’s something extra.”

The two are currently in the new Broadway dance show Burn The Floor.

Dancing With The Stars pros and real-life couple Karina Smirnoff and Maksim Chmerkovskiy have revealed to PEOPLE.com that they will tie the knot next June.

“If it was just friends and family that would be one thing, but there are so many people telling us, ‘We’ll be there, we want to come!’ So we said, Okay, the wedding is turning out to be a bigger production,” Maksim explains. “We want to take our time. You don’t want to piss anybody off or hurt anybody.”

Maks also announced that he and Karina are looking to hire a wedding planner, telling PEOPLE:

“We are currently interviewing a few wedding planners because we figure we could use professional help.”

Dancing With Stars’ Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Karina Smirnoff — who have been heating up more than just dancefloor since they began dating last year — celebrated their engagement at Disneyland in Anaheim, California on Friday.

Maks and Karina got engaged on New Year’s Eve and plan to wed later this year.

Sounds like The Woz grew very close to professional dancer Karina Smirnoff when the two were partnered together on the eighth season of the ABC ballroom reality series Dancing With The Stars. Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak told CYInterview.com’s Chris Yandek that he plans “to walk Karina down the aisle at her upcoming wedding to Maksim Chmerkovskiy.”

“Maks is really into scientific and mathematical type things and I have a lot of unusual little things. So we have a lot of fun joking over these things that are very unusual to know and hard to understand.”

Maksim and Denise grew close when they were paired together on the current season of the ballroom dance competition. But Karina, who was dumped by Extra host Mario Lopez just last year, was ready to cut a bitch when she heard whispers that Denise was trying to cajole Maks into meeting with her after rehearsal.

DWTS set spies say Denise’s advances towards the handsome hoofer were apparent for Day One.

A source tells The National Enquirer: “She was pretty obvious-laughing at everything he said, touching his shoulder lightly, flattering him…”

Karina, who Enquirer tipsters describe as a “friendly Ukranian,” hit the roof during a rehearsal just weeks before Denise and Maks were axed from the show in late March.

“Karina stormed into a rehearsal session, seeing red! She asked Denise what kind of game she was running. Denise feigned ignorance and said: ‘It’s all about the work.’”

Karina wasn’t buying it, exploding, “Show or no show-I will kick your ass if you don’t stop making moves on fiance,” the petite dance star fumed.

The couple has been together for six months.

“They are really cute together,” adds the source.

Dancing With The Stars hoffers Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Karina Smirnoff have sparked rumors that they are doing the bedroom two-step behind-the-scenes of the hit ABC ballroom series after the Ukraine natives were snapped in a steamy liplock while heating up the dance floor at the ONE Sunset club in Los Angeles on September 29.

“They were getting closer and closer until they were grinding on each other,” a spywitness dished in the October 13 edition of Star Magazine. “They were dripping with sweat; it was incredibly hot and sexy.”