Are Willa Ford and dance partner a couple?

NEW YORK, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- U.S. singer-dancer Willa Ford and "Dancing with the Stars" partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy are -- maybe -- dancing a personal duet.

Ford and Chmerkovskiy, voted off the ABC show Wednesday, denied being anything more than dance partners, TV talk show "Extra" said, yet a video of the pair on a beach said otherwise.

Ford then said she and Chmerkovskiy "reached a turning point" and "got more than we bargained for" when they agreed to participate in "Dancing with the Stars," Extra said.

Chmerkovskiy said he was hoping to get to know Ford in a setting beyond the show's set, Extra said.