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Tom Bergeron is opening up about his Dancing with the Stars exit.
The 68-year-old TV personality hosted the reality show from 2005 to 2020 before announcing his departure on Twitter. Tyra Banks originally replaced him and Alfonso Ribeiro and Julianne Hough have since taken over the role.
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During a recent conversation with DWTS pro Cheryl Burke on her Sex, Lies and Spray Tans podcast, Tom explained his exit from the show and how he felt at the time.
Tom recalled that while discussing the upcoming season with DWTS executives in 2019, he got a “phone call from the showrunner and another producer” who told him the list of celebrities set to compete.
When he found out that former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer was among the contestants, Tom was displeased given that he had recommended that the execs refrain from casting any politicians.
“I said, ‘Guys, this is exactly what we said we wouldn’t do. Don’t go there. This is, you know, not the right time, play to our strengths, be the show that gives people a break from all this bulls—.”
Tom then suggested he “take the season off,” and the showrunner and producer responded with an offer to terminate his contract.
“That’s how strongly they felt,” Tom explained, adding that the counteroffer “really pissed me off.”
When he wrote a statement in response to Sean‘s casting to “let people know that they f—ing lied to me,” Tom realized that he would be leaving the show.
“At that moment, I knew this is probably my last season, because of that one betrayal,” he said. “Up until that point, there were people of character there.”
The former host also described his state of mind in the aftermath of his exit.
“They had screwed me. I’m gonna screw them,” he
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“screwed” him over. “I’ve always thought Tom was a great host,” Spicer, 52, told The Post Tuesday adding that he “loved being a part of Season 28” and is “thoroughly enjoying the current season.” Spicer, who served under President Donald Trump, made the exclusive statement following Bergeron’s, 68, declaration on Cheryl Burke’s “Sex, Lies, and Spray Tans” podcast on Monday.
Tom Bergeron, former longtime host of Dancing With The Stars, is opening up about his exit from the reality competition series. After hosting DWTS since its launch in 2005, Bergeron was dismissed in 2020 after being publicly critical of the show’s choice to cast Donald Trump’s White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer in Season 28.
Dancing With The Stars was a low point in American culture, but for Tom Bergeron, it was the last straw.Bergeron, who hosted the for fifteen years, tried to stop it. As he recalled on former Dancing With The Stars dance pro Cheryl Burke's podcast, per , in the run-up to the 2020 election, Bergeron argued that the show should refrain from bringing on contestants aligned with either political party so that viewers could forget about the contentious state of politics while watching.So when he got a call from the then-showrunner and a producer telling him Spicer, who'd recently left Trump's White House, was on the list of potential “stars,” Bergeron was staunchly opposed.
Sex, Lies, and Spray Tans” podcast. “‘Don’t go there. This is, you know, not the right time, play to our strengths, be the show that gives people a break from all this bulls–t.'”The Post has reached out to Bergeron and Spicer for comment.According to Bergeron, both the showrunners and producers were determined to bring Spicer, 52, on the show.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Former “Dancing With the Stars” host Tom Bergeron reunited with dancer and franchise veteran Cheryl Burke on the latter’s “Sex, Lies, and Spray Tans” podcast (via Entertainment Weekly) and reflected on his tumultuous exit from the long-running ABC reality competition series. Bergeron was the original host of the program and led the show for 28 seasons. He parted ways with “DWTS” after the 2019 season because the show executives did not listen to his advice about staying out of politics and cast Sean Spicer, the hugely controversial former press secretary for President Donald Trump, to compete.
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“tempted” to have an affair with her “Dancing With the Stars” partner Derek Hough, 38.Burke, 52, told The Post she was surprised — but also “not worried” — that her admission last week on former “DWTS” pro Cheryl Burke’s “Sex, Lies, and Spray Tans” podcast turned heads. “That’s the problem with media, right?” Burke said on Wednesday.
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