Pasha Pashkov is meeting his critics head-on.

The Dancing With the Stars skilled—who's partnered with Boy Meets World alum Danielle Fishel on the ABC competition's 34th season—said he used to be “now not happy” to listen to desire Carrie Ann Inaba's criticism of their routine right thru Oct. 14's Dedication Evening episode.

“Just a few of your dances are initiating to in fact feel bask in I’m staring on the identical dance many times,” Carrie Ann instructed the duo, whose jive number paid tribute to Danielle's abnormal costar William Daniels. “Are trying to give a diminutive bit more diversity as a long way as dynamics. This is furthermore on you, Pasha.”

Neatly, Pasha thinks that comment used to be “unfair.”

“Especially being that she said that the dances looked identical,” he instructed Selection in an interview published Oct. 15. “The element is, we did contain a quickstep and we had a jive this week. These are two dances that [are] very, very identical.”

The 39-year-outdated persevered, “If we had dances that had been tremendously a form of and so that they felt the identical, I’d perceive. However, according to the dances that we had, that did now not in fact feel bask in it made sense to me. In my coronary heart.”