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" Dancing with the Stars professional Maksim Chmerkovskiy has said that his comment that he helped make the show what it is was not meant to come across as selfish.  Chmerkovskiy clashed with head judge Len Goodman following the panel&amp;#039;s critique of his partner Hope Solo, and later told Brooke Charvet that he &amp;quot;helped make [Dancing with the Stars] what it is&amp;quot;.   &amp;quot;With all due respect this is my show,&amp;quot; he told the co-host. &amp;quot;I helped make it what it is. I love every aspect of it, every professional who has ever been here, every celebrity who puts effort into every week.&amp;quot; Chmerkovskiy later told The Hollywood Reporter: &amp;quot;I feel like it&amp;#039;s my show, and together, with other pros, I dedicated six years of my life to this show. I&amp;#039;ve helped make it what it is, but I&amp;#039;ve never taken it away from anybody else who participated. &amp;quot;I didn&amp;#039;t mean it in a selfish way. I love it. It&amp;#039;s what I love doing. Our fans are phenomenal.&amp;quot; Chmerkovskiy added to Access Hollywood: &amp;quot;When we got on the show it was season two. I respected the pilot season as far as it went. We got cast for exactly who we are, and there were a few of us - me, Cheryl [Burke], Tony [Dovolani] - who remained ever since.   &amp;quot;Derek [Hough], Julianne [Hough] came on and made a difference, Mark Ballas came on, certainly the addition of Lacey&amp;#039;s [Schwimmer] talent, and Chelsie [Hightower], and people who came and left - we built that show.  &amp;quot;We are told that in the beginning of every season and off-season when producers call us. We&amp;#039;re told we are family and we are a cast and people who remain on the show. That&amp;#039;s all I said. I didn&amp;#039;t mean to say I made it, I said I helped make it what it is.&amp;quot;  Chmerkovskiy and Solo scored 20 out of a possible 30 points for their rumba on Monday night&amp;#039;s Broadway-themed episode, landing them just above Chaz Bono and Lacey Schwimmer at the bottom of the leaderboard.  Chmerkovskiy added on his Twitter account after the show: &amp;quot;To @hopesolo , you truly ARE my star tonight! Loved our dance! Very proud of you! To everyone else, I WILL NEVER CHANGE! Love me or hate me!&amp;quot; Dancing with the Stars continues tonight (Tuesday) on ABC. Watch more of Maksim talking to Access Hollywood below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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