Dancing With the Stars Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Jennifer Lopez Dating?  They both deny it.

Dancing With The Stars Maksim Chmerkovskiy says being called Jennifer Lopez's boyfriend was "unbearable." 

Hot on the heels of rumors that Mak and Meryl Davis were dating, rumors linking Jennifer Lopez and Maksim Chmerkovskiy shot through him. 

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."

Jennifer Lopez took to Twitter to blast rumors that she is dating Maksim Chmerkovskiy. Maksim was most recently linked to his "DWTS" partner Meryl Davis, although they never confirmed they were a couple.

Rumors that J.Lo was dating  "Dancing With the Stars" pro Maksim Chmerkovskiy hit the net this week just one week after news broke that Lopez split from dancer Casper Smart.

Lopez was dating Smart for more than two years. Reports surfaced that Lopez is dating "Dancing With the Stars" pro Maksim Chmerkovskiy.

According Leah Remini. a close friend of J.Lo, Maks and Lopez are friends, nothing more,

According to media reports Chmerkovskiy's new romance with Jennifer Lopez cost him the friendship of Kirstie Alley. Jennifer Lopez is best friends with Leah Remini, a former Scientologist.

Jennifer Lopez met Maks Chemerlovskiy at the 2013 American Music Awards last November. J.Lo and Maks shared a dance during Lopez's  tribute to Celia Cruz. At the time Lopez was still going out with her former backup dancer Smart. Maks was dating model Kate Upton. Maks and Kate broke up weeks later. Kate Upton and Maksim Chmerkovskiy split after six months together.

A source told the gossip magazine In Touch that Maks and Jennifer have kept in touch, adding "They're friends." Another source told Us Magazine, "He performed with her on the AMA's. But [they're] just friends."