It has been well over a year since Dancing With the Stars fired both Tom Bergeron and Erin Andrews.
Bergeron has been open about the ouster, but he got even more candid about it on Bob Saget's Here for You podcast.
The star has said that he could see the writing on the wall as far back as Summer 2019 -- a year before he was fired.
He explained that there were changes behind the scenes of the show, “and those people and I did not see eye-to-eye about how best to present the show," he explained.
Bergeron felt like the show should have been veering away from controversial political personalities because the show should be “an oasis, for two hours every week, from all of the nonsense and the divisiveness going on right now, and let’s not put political people in there.”
Sean Spicer was added to the cast,...
Bergeron has been open about the ouster, but he got even more candid about it on Bob Saget's Here for You podcast.
The star has said that he could see the writing on the wall as far back as Summer 2019 -- a year before he was fired.
He explained that there were changes behind the scenes of the show, “and those people and I did not see eye-to-eye about how best to present the show," he explained.
Bergeron felt like the show should have been veering away from controversial political personalities because the show should be “an oasis, for two hours every week, from all of the nonsense and the divisiveness going on right now, and let’s not put political people in there.”
Sean Spicer was added to the cast,...
- 10/12/2021
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
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