"Dancing With the Stars" pro Brandon Armstrong broke his silence about the comments Gene Simmons made about his partner, Chandler Kinney.

Brandon Armstrong and Chandler Kinney weren't expecting guest judge Gene Simmons' strong reaction to their Dancing With the Stars performance. "I'm getting blasted for that already," Armstrong, 30, exclusively told Us Weekly on Tuesday,

Gene Simmons is facing an arena’s worth of backlash for his guest judging stint on Dancing With the Stars. On Tuesday, October 8’s Hair Metal Night episode of the dance competition, the KISS frontman made several comments about the contestants’ physical appearances at the judges’ table. The majority were about the female dancers.