Gene Simmons Faces Criticism After Making 'Creepy' Comments About Female Dancers on “Dancing with the Stars”

Fans flocked to social media to comment on Simmons' guest judging stint on the competitive dance show on Oct. 8

Gene Simmons is facing heat for his controversial feedback as guest judge on Dancing with the Stars.

On the Tuesday, Oct. 9 episode of the competitive dance series, the KISS rocker, 75, raised eyebrows after he made several comments about the contestants' physical appearances while guest judging the show's Hair Metal Night episode.

Simmons has not publicly addressed the backlash, and PEOPLE has reached out to his rep for comment.

After former NFL player Danny Amendola and his partner Witney Carson finished their Paso Doble to  Bon Jovi's "Livin’ on a Prayer," Simmons claimed, "This is a brand new experience for me and it's difficult to look at you and to figure out which one is more hot, hot, hot."

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"Danny, I'm telling you, you're right next to somebody, one of the more beautiful women on the planet," he added as cameras panned to Carson, who had a bewildered look on her face.

In another instance, Simmons shared his thoughts on Chandler Kinney and her partner Brandon Armstrong's Jive to Twisted Sister's "We're Not Gonna Take It."

"Chandler, you've fogged up my glasses. I don't know what to tell you. You move me, not just with your gyrations and so on, but your beautiful face and how you were into the emotion of it," he said.

After the episode, Dancing with the Stars fans weighed in on Simmons' comments on social media.

"Gene Simmons comments about the ladies are giving the energy of the gross uncle who corners you at the reunion #DWTS," one user tweeted on X.

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"Gene Simmons is seriously sucking all the energy out of the ballroom with his creepy comments about the female dancers," a fan wrote on the platform and another person added, "I’m getting the feeling that Gene Simmons is just choosing his scores based on how attractive he thinks the girl is…yikes #DWTS."

"Gene Simmons literally salivating over the woman on dancing with the stars is disgusting i don’t think they could’ve picked a worse person to be in this role #DWTS," someone else tweeted.

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Dancing with the Stars airs Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET on ABC and Disney+. Episodes can be streamed the next day on Hulu and Disney+.

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