We’ve all identified the acute ache of a whole buffoon coming into our office and screwing all the things up, however few have skilled the singular “betrayal” of that large dumb fool being former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer. You know, the man who stated Hitler by no means used chemical weapons? Yeah… him.
If you’ve efficiently blocked this enjoyable little period out of your reminiscence, right here’s a refresher. For some cause, what ABC thought all of us needed in 2019 was to watch Donald Trump’s former lapdog be taught to foxtrot. People decidedly did not need that. Chief among the many detractors was Dancing With The Stars host Tom Bergeron himself, who printed a vitriolic assertion on the time condemning the casting for ruining what might have been “a joyful respite from our exhausting political local weather.” A yr later, Bergeron introduced his departure from the present after 15 years.
Now, Bergeron is opening up concerning the cycle of “betrayal” and feeling “actually pissed… off” that led to his exit. Before the casting was introduced, Bergeron recalled begging producers to rethink. “I stated, ‘Guys, that is precisely what we stated we wouldn’t do. Don’t go there… Be the present that provides folks a break from all this bullshit,’” he shared on a current episode of former DWTS professional Cheryl Burke’s “Sex, Lies, and Spray Tans” podcast (through Entertainment Weekly).
When execs countered that they had been sticking with their (insane) resolution, Bergeron apparently requested to take the season off, to which the community responded by providing to let him out of his contract altogether. “That’s how strongly they felt,” Bergeron advised Burke. “[It] actually pissed me off.”
Feeling “livid,” Bergeron took to social media to put up his assertion, with the complete data of his legal professionals however not ABC, who he stated “didn’t should know.” “They had screwed me. I’m gonna screw them,” the previous host continued. “I needed the viewers to know this was a step too far to me. This was a step too far on the cusp of an election yr. And once more—had it been a Democrat, identical assertion.” (It needs to be famous that Spicer isn’t the primary politician to compete on DWTS, and even the primary Republican. But not one of the others are Sean Spicer.) “At that second, I knew that is in all probability my final season, due to that one betrayal,” he stated. “Up till that time, there have been folks of character there.”
DWTS has shuffled by way of hosts since Bergeron’s departure in 2020. The present is at present airing its thirty second season, with Alfonso Ribeiro and Julianne Hough behind the mic.
