Karina Smirnoff News

Karina Smirnof is focusing on her career at the moment.

However, following her recent break up with former Dancing with the Stars partner Mario Lopez, that doesn't mean she'd mind a date.

"At the end of the day, I really want to find that certain person to spend the rest my life with," Smirnoff said. "And I am totally open for that â€" so any single, good guys, send in your resume!"

Smirnoff and Lopez ended their relationship earlier this month, shortly after a beach vacation in Miami. Rumors state that he cheated on her.

"We had a two-year relationship, and I have nothing but good memories," Smirnoff said. "We are better off as friends."

Meagan Cooper is more than a Hooters waitress and contestant on the upcoming reality show, I Survived a Japanese Game Show.

She also claims she's the woman responsible for breaking up former Dancing with the Stars couple Mario Lopez and Karina Smirnoff, telling E! that she and Lopez carried on a secret romance for almost a year while he dated Smirnoff.

"He told me he lived alone," said Cooper, "but I opened up [his] closet and saw a row of women's shoes and said, 'Either you are a cross-dresser or a woman is living here.'"

Meagan Cooper says she had an affair with Mario Lopez during his relationship with Karina Smirnoff.

Cooper continued: "We're not friends anymore. He's really pissed. He's like, 'You're not supposed to talk to [press],' but when you make me look like a total whore, I'm going to tell somebody about it."

We're trying not to take sides here, but no one had heard of Meagan Cooper until she came out with this story. Hard to see how Lopez made her look like anything.

"He's a really great guy, don't get me wrong. He's a really nice person. He has a lot of great qualities, but he was not the most faithful person in the world," Cooper said, possibly telling the truth, but definitely desiring fame.

A couple weeks about saying their relationship is in great shape, denying rumors of a split, Mario Lopez and Karina Smirnoff have called it quits.

"He's a great guy. I think the world of him, but I think we're both concentrating on our careers right now," she told The New York Post.

Smirnoff met the actor on the third season of Dancing with the Stars. We wonder if she's now dating a different Mario, her partner on the most reason season of that show.

Hey, if Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt can star in cheesy, staged shots for celebrity gossip photographers, why can't Mario Lopez and Karina Smirnoff do the same?

The couple obviously can, as the following photos prove. This pair, which fell in love on Dancing with the Stars, is taking advantage of the system to earn a few extra bucks. Good for them!

Click on the pics below for more evidence that Mario and Karina know how to have fun in the sun:

This is bound to fuel speculation that Karina Smirnoff is dating season six partner, Mario.

After all, her and former Dancing with the Stars partner Mario Lopez have broken up, People Magazine reports.

Even though, Lopez's personal rep, said, "It's my policy to not comment on my client's personal life," Smirnoff has been spotted recently with E! Entertainment personality Michael Yo. The two were seen dancing and canoodling at a recent event at Hollywood restaurant Beso.

Lopez, meanwhile, is starring in A Chorus Line on Broadway, and recently returned to the ballroom with 18 Chorus Line dancers to tape a synchronized number to air on Dancing's 100th episode on May 6. That could be awkward.

** UPDATE: After this story came out, Karina Smirnoff said:

"We're going on strong... For the record, I am not moving out. Everything is great."

At Us Weekly's Hot Hollywood party last week, a pair of Dancing with the Stars beauties burned up the dance floor.

It's no shock that Cheryl Burke and Karina Smirnoff look right at home on the dance floor. So far, through a few weeks of season six, each is still alive in the competition.

As the rumors continue to swirl that Karina Smirnoff is dating Dancing with the Stars partner Mario, the professional's actual boyfriend continues to laugh at the notion.

"People make up crazy stuff," Mario Lopez told Us Weekly. "I thought it was funny... I know the nature of the business and people talk. It's funny because those rumors always tend come up during the season."

While celebrity gossip tabloids try to drum up a story that involves romance between Karina Smirnoff and her partner, Karin's boyfriend Mario Lopez and the singer Mario each got on the phone during the Ryan Seacrest radio show today to shoot down this talk.

The singer, who's been steaming up the ballroom with Smirnoff while denying rumors anything more, had plenty of kind words for the former Saved By the Bell star.

"We kicked it a few times. Mario's a cool guy," he said. "We have similar interests. I like boxing and he likes boxing."

In return, the actor said he liked Mario and respects the singer's dance floor determination.

"The dances are all characters and telling a story," he told Seacrest while Mario was on the line. "I'm really proud of him. He's a great guy. Really respectful."

As for the odds of Smirnoff and Mario winning Dancing with the Stars this Season? Lopez is confident.

"They're going all the way," he said.

The R&B singer whose real name is Mario Dewar Barrett, that is.

Karina Smirnoff is still quite happy with boyfriend Mario Lopez.

The Dancing With the Stars pro tells Us Weekly that "there is nothing" to rumors that she's hooking up with her current partner, R&B singer Mario.

"We have a completely professional relationship," Karina Smirnoff said. "I have a lot of respect for Mario. He is a great person."

The New York Post reported earlier this week that Mario and Karina Smirnoff (who partnered with Lopez on the show in season three) were "making out by the valet with their hands all over each other" at the Four Seasons Hotel.

Mario, who performed very well in each of the first two episodes of the current sixth season, also denies the claim, saying via his rep "this did not happen."

But a source close to the singer insists "there is definitely chemistry and flirtation between the two." Palpable, even, you could say. They're hot, hot, hot!

As with Drew Lachey and Cheryl Burke, that kind of connection is enough to make people assume there is some serious rolling in the hay going on.

That's Dancing With the Stars for you!

Dancing with the Stars produces more than just champions.

It leads to love connections!

Karina Smirnoff, who will be partnering with singer Mario Dewar Barrett this season on the show, was spotted recently with her former partner - and current boyfriend - Mario Lopez. Aren't these two adorable?