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Johnny Weir makes court appearance for biting lawyer husband during fight: report

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    Weir and Tara Lipinski as NBC figure skating commentators during the Sochi Olympics last month.

  • Radar Online reported Weir bit Voronov during a fight about...

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    Radar Online reported Weir bit Voronov during a fight about a month before the Sochi Olympics. A judge granted Voronov's request to throw out the case.

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    Johnny Weir (left) and Victor Voronov attend at the Soho Grand Hotel in July. The pair was reportedly in court on Tuesday for a domestic dispute hearing stemming from an incident a few months ago.

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Olympic commentator Johnny Weir was facing charges for biting his lawyer husband during domestic dispute, but a lenient judge let him skate after the couple appeared in court together, according to a report.

Radar Online reported the former figure skater and his husband, Victor Voronov, made a quiet appearance in a Lyndhurst, N.J., court Tuesday to ask a judge to toss out the case, which stemmed from a spat they had about a month before the Sochi Olympics.

Voronov allegedly told police the champion skater bit him during the fight, the site reported.

In court, though, the icy feud appeared to have thawed as Voronov touched Weir’s knee and whispered sweetly in his ear.

Radar reported the judge complimented Weir’s look — “Nice hairdo,” she said — before granting Voronov’s request to have the charges dismissed.

Radar Online reported Weir bit Voronov during a fight about a month before the Sochi Olympics. A judge granted Voronov's request to throw out the case.
Radar Online reported Weir bit Voronov during a fight about a month before the Sochi Olympics. A judge granted Voronov’s request to throw out the case.

Approached after the hearing, the NBC commentator said, “It is a private matter I do not wish to discuss,” before hustling into a car.

Weir, 29, and Voronov, a Georgetown law grad, tied the knot on New Year’s Eve in 2011.

Last month, the three-time national champion admitted things occasionally got stormy between the two.

“We’re both constantly trying to fight to wear the pants in the relationship,” he told Access Hollywood. “It’s constant fireworks. It’s very boom, boom, boom.”

Weir and Tara Lipinski as NBC figure skating commentators during the Sochi Olympics last month.
Weir and Tara Lipinski as NBC figure skating commentators during the Sochi Olympics last month.

But Weir deserved high scores for keeping the biting drama quiet during the Olympics in Sochi, where all the chatter focused on his wild wardrobe and on-air chemistry with booth partner Tara Lipinski.

On Tuesday, Voronov tweeted a cute selfie showing the pair grocery shopping together.

“Life back to normal pace at least for today,” he wrote.