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Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Kate Upton canoodling? C’mon!

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Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Kate Upton dating? Say it isn’t so!

No, seriously, say it isn’t so, because it actually isn’t so.

The “Dancing With the Stars” pro and the model-turned-actress were spotting dining together late Monday in New York, sparking a report Tuesday that they were an item. Monday, incidentally, was Upton’s 21st birthday; Chmerkovskiy is 33.

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“It’s very new,” a source told Us Weekly about the stars’ alleged relationship. “They were set up through friends. They just started dating.”

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Hmm. Though hand-holding was reported and their behavior at dinner was deemed “very canoodly” by an eyewitness who talked to Us, a source close to Upton told the mag they’ve been friends for a while and remain that: friends.

Seems one person’s “canoodly” is another’s can’t-say-that’s-what-happened.

Management at the restaurant, Scalinatella, told E! News that the meal did “not look intimate at all.”

“They have known each other and been friends for a while,” but aren’t dating, a source close to the sitch told Gossip Cop.

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Oh well, perhaps another time, another place, another canoodle. Even if romance isn’t in the cards, we can think of worse 21st birthday gifts than dinner with Maks.

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