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Derek Hough's top 10 neighbors span TV shows, musicians, actors, and reality stars — a mixed cluster with no single subcategory dominating and no standout gap between the highest and lowest scores (0.90 down to 0.85).
The shape is flat. Dancing with the Stars leads at 0.90, and Maksim Chmerkovskiy follows at 0.88 — the only two neighbors who share direct ties to competitive dance programming. After that, the cluster diversifies quickly. The Big Bang Theory (0.87) and Adam Levine (0.87) sit nearly level with each other, followed by actors Michael Weatherly (0.87) and Jeffrey Dean Morgan (0.86), and musician Steven Tyler (0.87). Rounding out the top 10 are iHeartCountry (0.86), Norman Reedus (0.86), and Keith Urban (0.85).
By subcategory count, Musicians and Bands account for four of the ten neighbors (Adam Levine, Steven Tyler, Keith Urban, and iHeartCountry as a radio channel adjacent to that world), Actors for two (Michael Weatherly, Jeffrey Dean Morgan), TV Shows for two (Dancing with the Stars, The Big Bang Theory), and TV Personalities for one (Maksim Chmerkovskiy). Hough's own subcategory — TV Personalities — appears only once in the top 10. The audience shape here is less "dance world" than a broad mainstream-entertainment profile that pulls equally from network TV dramas, rock musicians, and country acts.
This flat, cross-kind distribution suggests an audience defined by mainstream American entertainment consumption rather than by any single genre or format.
