Zdeněk Chlopčík described his career for the first time

The thirteenth season of the popular dance competition StarDance started this Saturday. The scenery, background and premise remained unchanged. Marek Eben and Tereza Kostková created the host pair again, ten couples appear on the dance floor again.

A popular personality is always complemented by a professional. As usual, Moondance Orchestra with Martin Kumžák provided the background music. However, attentive observers did not miss the fact that Zdeněk Chlopčík, dance master and co-owner of a dance school of the same name in Ostrava, is absent for the first time this year. He was with the show StarDance … when the stars dance from the very beginning, since 2006.

Marek Eben made a small comment on his address. During the live broadcast, he thanked for the show and welcomed Chlopčík to Malenovice near Frýdek-Místek, where he lives.

Shortly after public Czech Television announced that trainer and dancer Jan Tománek would be replaced on the jury, a whole series of speculations surfaced. They were divided into two parts. The former said that Chlopčík left the popular show voluntarily. PrahaIN.cz met one of the ČT drama back in September, when he told us: “I know he retired, he should have found something in Slovakia, but I really don’t know more about it, it’s not talked about much here”, he told our editors. The same approach was taken by the staff two weeks ago when it came to the official presentation of the form.

It’s early for the courts

PrahaIN.cz was on the spot, but we only learned a few details that Jan Tománek was replaced by Zdenek Chlopčík. No one wanted to comment further on this game. The second part of the discussion, for a change, talked about the reasons why the famous figure StarDance does not evaluate individual performances anymore.

Here, the alleged high financial demands, his harsh behavior or the disagreement with the TV crew are probably the most common. But almost nothing has been proven in either case.

“I think it’s too early to judge this after the first episode. Zdeněk Chlopčík was a favorite judge associated with StarDance from the very beginning so it is clear that some viewers miss him. We are very happy that a record number of 1 million 629 thousand viewers watched the first episode of StarDance. But we will find out if the changes in the thirteenth series of this year were successful when it ends,” StarDance’s creative representative Lucie Kapounová told our editors.

According to CT, changes in jury composition are not unusual.

Former Headmaster Petr Dvořák shrugged his shoulders. “I don’t know why it happened,” he told reporters on Monday.

At first Zdeněk Chlopčík did not want to comment too much on the matter. “I will not comment on anything about StarDance,” he replied. However, we asked him an additional question. We were interested in how the cooperation was concluded. Here the dance master has already “I was told on the phone that they don’t count on me,” he said. He did not want to elaborate further on the matter.

The editors also asked the opinion of Mark Eben, who has been with the broadcast since its inception. It was quiet too.

envy

However, we received one more vote, which was also the jury. He did not want to be named in this context.

“I cooperate with Czech Television, I don’t want to harm anyone. I had the opportunity to meet Mr. Zdenek Chlopčík and it did not seem to me that he was a controversial person. He was very nice behind the scenes and very, very attentive to women, I still remember that. Personally, I see normal human envy at his dismissal. There was a lot of talk about the fact that he is doing very well thanks to television, I don’t know anymore,” he explained.

It could be something to do with each other. But only in theory. Taneční škola Chlopčík s.r.o. was founded in February 2016, ten years after a forty-five percent owner appeared as a judge on a Czech TV screen. According to the financial statements we reviewed in the recordshowever, the company is almost still on the same economic base, even if it is growing. According to the responses on social networks, success is not behind the TV show, but hard work and art.