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"Dancing with the Stars professional Maksim Chmerkovskiy has stood by his defence of Hope Solo on Monday evening&amp;#039;s show. Chmerkovskiy was seen standing up for professional soccer player Solo when Len Goodman claimed that their rumba was her &amp;quot;worst dance&amp;quot; of the competition so far. When Chmerkovskiy started to gee up a booing audience, Goodman said: &amp;quot;Don&amp;#039;t start all that Maks, &amp;#039;cause half the fault is yours... The audience like the effect, they judge on efficacy. I&amp;#039;ve been in this business for 50 years, my criteria to judge is different to [that of] the audience.&amp;quot; The dancer interrupted, saying: &amp;quot;Well, maybe it&amp;#039;s time to get out then,&amp;quot; which led Carrie Ann Inaba to accuse Chmerkovskiy of being &amp;quot;disrespectful&amp;quot; to Goodman. As the judges talked over each other, Chmerkovskiy protested: &amp;quot;Everybody&amp;#039;s putting a lot of effort in. Everybody on that balcony has been... killing themselves, only to hear your guys&amp;#039; little judgemental comments.&amp;quot; Inaba then added that it was the panel&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;job&amp;quot; to critique the contestants.  Chmerkovskiy was also seen after his argument with the judges telling host Brooke Burke Charvet: &amp;quot;This is my show, I helped make it what it is.&amp;quot; He later told E Online that he was &amp;quot;extremely proud&amp;quot; of Solo, explaining: &amp;quot;This is the first time she came out and she did exactly what she planned and there was no stress and no tension and it was a great performance. And I really liked dancing with her tonight.  &amp;quot;To get comments that [were] the opposite of what it was, it wasn&amp;#039;t even upsetting, it was more like, &amp;#039;I have had enough!&amp;#039; You have an opinion. I also have an opinion.&amp;quot; Chmerkovskiy added: &amp;quot;The judges will say, &amp;#039;Hey, this is showbusiness, this is supposed to be fun&amp;#039;. Well, I had fun tonight.&amp;quot; Dancing with the Stars continues tonight (October 25) at 8/7c on ABC. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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