DANCING With The Stars host Tyra Banks has been dragged by pro Artem Chigvintsev’s wife, Nikki Bella, for making a major mistake on live TV.
She noticeably mispronounced the pro’s last name after saying she messed up other’s names last week.
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On Monday’s episode of DWTS, host Alfonso Ribeiro threw it back to Tyra after interviewing Shangela and Gleb Savchenko.
“Tyra, who do we got on deck?” he asked.
“Oh, we got a lot on deck. I messed up names last week too, but we are going to get to that in a second,” she said, right before messing up another name.
“Now, we’ve got the star who can be seen in new episodes of The D’Amelio Show every week on Hulu. It’s momma Heidi D’Amelio and Artem Chi-ven-sev,” Tyra tried to pronounce.
His last name is Chig-vint-sev, which is pronounced exactly as it is spelled.
Clearly, Tyra’s mistake was noticeable, as not only did fans call her out, but Artem’s wife, wrestler and reality TV star, Nikki Bella, did too.
“Tyra it’s CHIGvintsev lol N #DWTS,” she tweeted on her and her sister, Bella’s, joint account.
This blunder comes after Tyra called Charli D’Amelio‘s boyfriend, Landon Barker, by the wrong name last week.
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‘DRAG HER’
Fans on Reddit agreed with the Total Bellas alum and took to the platform to express their opinions.
The original poster shared the tweet with the caption: “Drag her a**, Nicole.”
“Why can she not just practice it? It’s not that hard to say if you get use to it, but Tyra just gets it wrong every week and doesn’t care,” asked one fan.
“This is definitely not for her if she can’t even try to get people’s names correct,” wrote another.
A fourth chimed in: “Don’t eff with a WWE wrestler’s husband Tyra.”
Fans on Twitter also replied to her tweet, saying it’s not that hard to learn.
“I mean all you have to do is separate it to Chig Vint Sev… I get if you’ve never heard the name and the first time… but she should know how to say it by now… practice if you have to… damn!” tweeted one fan.
To that another replied: “As a television host, she should know how to say it, regardless of whether or not she has heard it before!”
“Omg yes. It is not that hard,” said one last fan.
WHO?
Before messing up Artem’s name, Tyra also shouted out Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker in the audience last week.
However, she made a mistake as she introduced Travis’ son, Landon.
He is Charli’s boyfriend, so he and his family sat in the crowd to support the Tiktok star.
“Charli’s friends Kourtney Kardashian Barker and Travis Barker and Logan Barker are here!” she said.
“I know you guys are very proud right now.”
But fans on social media were quick to pick up on the naming mistake.
“Logan Barker? That’s Landon Barker!” raged one.
Another chimed in: “Oops…. ‘Logan’ Barker.”
A third wrote: “His name is Landon, Tyra.”
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