‘Dance Moms’ Sparks Outrage Over ‘Insensitive’ Routine Inspired by JonBenét Ramsey

It may be a new era of *Dance Moms*, but the controversy is still the same.

The reboot of the popular reality show got a bit too real for its fans in one of the new episodes. A young dancer was assigned a routine centered around the murder of 6-year-old beauty pageant queen, JonBenét Ramsey.

Ashlan Scheide, 11, one of the stars of *Dance Moms: A New Era*, performed the dark number at one of the competitions filmed during the show. Not only was her makeup, costuming, and blond hair styled to look like JonBenét’s, but the routine depicted the child being strangled, a concept that has proven too morbid for many viewers.

One user on Reddit called the dance “extremely disturbing,” and suggested, “They could’ve easily done a beauty pageant routine without exploiting JonBenét’s murder.”

“Yeah, this almost made me stop watching the show,” someone else chimed in, calling it “absolutely grotesque” to assign another child to research the case for a dance.

“The worst part to me was Ashlan’s mom sharing the entire story with her. It clearly upset her. I couldn’t believe how much Ashlan looked like JonBenét,” one user wrote.

Other users pointed out a joke that the dance instructor, Gloria “Miss Glo” Hampton, made about Ashlan’s makeup resembling JonBenét after she was brutally murdered.

“Did anyone find the JonBenét Ramsey dance insensitive and disrespectful?” another poster wrote. “Like the joke about her makeup and saying ‘you look like how she looked after she was strangled’ and all the moms laughed….. my jaw was literally on the floor. Seems extremely disrespectful to that poor little girl.”

“Yeah that ‘joke’ was gross and sad. Like that was a real little girl that happened to,” someone else agreed.

JonBenét, daughter of pageant mom Patsy Ramsey and father John Ramsey, was found dead at her family’s home in Boulder, Colo., in 1996. No one was ever arrested for the murder, and JonBenét’s case has still never been solved.

Source: Yahoo News, Hive News