Carrie Ann Inaba is looking back on 20 years of Dancing With the Stars, revealing what keeps her coming back to the ballroom season after season.

Since season 1 debuted in 2005, Inaba, 57, has worn her heart on her sleeve as one of the three expert judges on the ABC dance competition and proudly waved her paddles — even when she’s met with boos within the ballroom.

“Obviously, the people at home don’t always see what I’m looking at,” Inaba exclusively reveals in the latest issue of Us Weekly, which celebrates two decades of the show. “Sometimes when the audience gets very upset, I’m like, ‘I know.’ I am used to it. I’ve been doing this for a long time. … I saw things slightly different, and that’s OK.”

While plenty has been said about Inaba’s scoring through the years, she simply keeps

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