Dancing With The Stars Rumor alert:  Are Dancing With The Stars Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Meryl Davis Dating? It no longer looks like it. In spite of all the chemistry and DTWS fans' hope, rumors that Meryl Davis and her alleged boyfriend Maksim Chmerkovskiy on Dancing with the Stars are fading. Maks and Meryl are going their separate ways

'Dancing With The Stars' season 18 ended with Meryl Davis and dancing partner Maks Chmerkovskiy winning the mirror ball trophy.

Meryl and Maks reunited in New York just two weeks after the couple's "Dancing With the Stars" win. A source told Us magazine: "They had a great time (in NYC) but honestly they aren't dating yet ... Maks is that affectionate with all women. He always acts like that, it's how he is, very touchy feely. He genuinely adores her but it is not dating yet."

Maksim Chmerkovskiy talked to Us Weekly about how far that relationship has spun from the dance floor "I love her. I love her! I love her as a person and for what she has allowed me to do with our choreography and how much she's embraced it... I literally had a perfect partnership with Meryl. Everything just came together."

It was just chemistry. From the day Meryl Davis and Maksim Chmerkovskiy were first paired, TVs across the country captured that sexual tension.For fans of Meryl Davis and Maksim Chmerkovskiy, the idea of a romance between the "Dancing With the Stars" couple seems perfect.

A source told Us Weekly that Maks gets close to all the women in his life, saying "[Maks] is that affectionate with all women," a source said. "He always acts like that. It's how he is, very touchy-feely."

Maks said the rumors are "always circulating around us dancers. It's fine. That's the nature of what we do. We're always in close proximity to each other. In order to produce what Meryl and I produced, there had to have been so much chemistry, and we had it. And that's what leads people who are not used to that to speculate, which is great. I love that."