Tom Bergeron Says He Was 'Miserable the Whole Season' Before 'DWTS' Firing
Bergeron confessed that his final season with 'DWTS' was not a pleasant experience.
Tom Bergeron wasn't too broken up about his firing from Dancing With The Stars in 2020, as the former host now says that he was "miserable the whole season" prior to being let go from the show." Bergeron's final season on DWTS was Season 28 in 2019, as he and co-host Erin Andrews were let go in 2020. While speaking to Cheryl Burke on her Sex, Lies, and Spray Tans podcast, Bergeron confessed that he was not happy with the show's producers and it made for a challenging experience.
Burke — a former DWTS pro dancer — asked Bergon, "Did Erin just have your back?" Bergeron answered, "She did. At that point, they had a set where this big wall would open and we'd walk out to start the show and we'd always just kind of look at each other and go, 'OK, alright, two hours. This is our reality. Here we go.' ... I was miserable the whole season."
Bergeron's "miserable" experience stems from a situation he had with the show's producers ahead of the season. The former host recalled that he strongly advocated for keeping political figures of any kind off the show, and said that producers and ABC executives agreed with him initially. However, weeks later they told him that Sean Spicer, the ex-White House Press Secretary for the Trump administration, was coming on the show for the 28th season.
"So I was furious," Bergeron said. "At one point, I even said, 'How 'bout if I take this season off?' And they said 'Well, we'll let you out of your contract if you want.' That's how strongly they felt about it." He added, "And that really pissed me off. So I said, 'Alright, let me try to be Switzerland here. But I was furious. ... I was at least going to let people know that they f—ing lied to me."
Elsewhere in the conversation, the topic of conversation turned to the chances of Bergeron ever possibly returning to DWTS and he made it clear that he has no plans to. Burke asked, "Would you come back?" Bergeron replied, "No, never. Because it's not the same show. It's not the same world." Burke responded, "But it's ok if it's not the same," to which Bergeron explained, "Yeah, but I did it for a lot of years. There's no point. What would I prove? ... Let the show either exist with the fresh blood that it has now or die a natural death."