With the status of her relationship to Mario Lopez currently under heavy scrutiny, it's nice to see that Karina Smirnoff still has a stress-free relationship with at least one Mario - Mario Barrett, her partner on DWTS!

We spotted the dancing duo leaving Nobu - separately, of course. Both Mario and Karina were more than happy to stop and speak to the paps about the show, giving their thoughts on the elimination process and the most recent batch of folks given the boot from the show before heading off for a late-night practice session.

Surprisingly, the subject of Mario Lopez never came up once, although Barrett vehemently denied any relationship between himself and Karina when a photog brought up the subject. (Then again, if we knew we might get beaten up by Mario Lopez over our answer to the question, we'd be pretty emphatic too!)