‘Dancing’s’ Ralph Macchio Dishes On Translation Troubles; Plus, Karina Smirnoff Wedding Details!

_{Ralph Macchio and his “Dancing with the Stars” partner, Karina Smirnoff, walked away winners on last week’s Season 12 debut, nabbing the evening’s highest scores from the judges.}

_{However, the former “Karate Kid” star says being number one comes with a price.}

_{“I call [Karina] the whip-cracker,” Ralph told Access Hollywood at the couple’s rehearsal in LA on Friday. “My Russian dictator! We have lost in translation [moments], which [are] really funny.}

_{“Our classic is when I was really tired and Karina said, ‘Are you slipping?’” Ralph continued, laughing. “And I said, ‘No, I’m awake. I’m awake — I’m just a little tired.’ And she said, ‘No, are you slipping, like sliding and slipping!’ We’ve had many of those [moments].”}

_{Karina’s native dialect isn’t the only issue the front-running dance duo has had to face – Ralph revealed they also battle over his resistance to the famous “Dancing” airbrush tan.}

_{“She goes, ‘I vant da spray tan!’” Ralph told Access, in his best Karina accent.}

_{“He has to be orange! Everyone is orange! Orange you glad you’re on the show?” Karina joked, laughing.}

_{Karina, a “Dancing” vet, has her hands full this season both on and off the dance floor. The 33-year-old beauty recently became engaged to her boyfriend of over a year, MLB player Brad Penny.}

_{However, with most of the day spent sweating on the dance floor, Karina said wedding planning is inching forward very slowly.}

_{“We’re talking about [the wedding] a lot and we now finalized the location,” Karina told Access. “It’s little by little. I had no idea this is like a full time job!}

_{“I thought it’s like, ‘Yay! Getting married! So excited!’” she added. “And then now, it’s like [there’s a] list of things you’ve got to do.”}

_{Due to Karina and her beau’s hectic schedules, the couple has opted for a destination wedding to provide some much-needed down time for their friends and loved ones.}

_{“[We’re] definitely [having] a destination wedding because I think we both want to kind of give the family an opportunity to relax and [make] a mini-vacation out of it as well,” she told Access. “In terms of big, small, who’s coming, who’s not, it’s still all up in the air.}

_{“You’re coming, right?” she asked Ralph, before adding a few stipulations as to where he’d be seated. “With the mirrorball, [you’ll be sitting] like, up close to the floor. Or, [without it] by the kitchen!”}

_{“In a viewing trailer,” Ralph laughed.}