Tom Bergeron will quickly be again within the Dancing With the Stars ballroom to have fun the present's twentieth anniversary.
Good Morning America introduced on Wednesday, November 5, that Bergeron, 70, will function the visitor decide for the twentieth Birthday Celebration episode of the ABC actuality competitors collection.
“It feels actually good [to be back], I'm actually wanting ahead to it,” Bergeron mentioned on Wednesday, including that he's been “reminiscing” on all of the enjoyable he had internet hosting the present. “I feel 20 years of any primetime present is wonderful. For a present 20 years outdated to even be having a rankings resurgence as they're, you're extra prone to see a zebra enjoying the piano. And I actually assume it's a credit score to the workforce type of getting it again to its essence.”
Bergeron hinted there's a few front-runners on season 34 — and expressed his pleasure for judging fan favourite Andy Richter. “He epitomizes what I all the time thought the present was at its finest,” Bergeron mentioned.
Along with welcoming Bergeron again, the twentieth anniversary episode will commemorate the historical past of Dancing With the Stars by setting all first spherical dances to music from iconic freestyles of the previous 20 years. Plus, for the primary time ever, celeb contestants will get the chance to carry out aggressive dances with out their professional companions for bonus factors.
Bergeron was the unique host of Dancing With the Stars when it premiered in June 2005, serving within the position for 28 seasons. He and cohost Erin Andrews have been finally fired in July 2020 and changed by Tyra Banks. After Banks' March 2023 exit, present cohosts Alfonso Ribeiro and Julianne Hough took over, beginning with season 32 later that 12 months.
Government producer Andrew Llinares later defined why Bergeron was relieved of his internet hosting duties.
“I feel it's all about evolution. I feel any present like this that has been on many, many seasons must proceed to evolve,” Llinares informed reporters in September 2020. “I feel altering the host was all about evolution, it was about making the present really feel recent, making it really feel new [and] type of make it attain out — perhaps to a brand new viewers as properly, in addition to the viewers that's been there for years.”
Bergeron, for his half, hinted at pressure behind the scenes of Dancing With the Stars previous to his exit.
“In all candor, the present that I left was not the present that I cherished,” he mentioned throughout an October 2021 episode of the “Bob Saget's Right here for You” podcast. “So, the tip of the season that turned out to be my final season [in 2019], I type of knew. So I took all the pieces out of my dressing room that I actually wished. … It was type of apparent that we have been type of butting heads.”
Two years later, Bergeron confirmed that his outspokenness in regards to the casting of former White Home press secretary Sean Spicer on season 28 of Dancing With the Stars factored into his dismissal.
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“That they had screwed me. I'm gonna screw them,” he mentioned throughout an October 2023 episode of Cheryl Burke's “Intercourse, Lies and Spray Tans” podcast, referring to a press release wherein he expressed his displeasure over the present's choice to characteristic political figures as contestants. “However I wished the viewers to know this was a step too far to me.”
Regardless of the circumstances surrounding his exit, Bergeron insisted of his general time on the present, “I take a look at the mathematics and 95 p.c of my expertise was actually fairly fantastic.”
