Ahead of the 2020 “Dancing With the Stars” season, Tom Bergeron made one simple request that the show ignored. The former host revealed on Cheryl Burke’s podcast “Sex, Lies, and Spray Tans,” that because the United States would have a crucial election year in 2020, he told executives not to have any dancers who were affiliated with any political party.
Well, the show did not listen. “This former showrunner says to me, ‘You might want to sit down for this last one.’ I said ‘Why?’ And then they told me who it was,” Bergeron said. Although Bergeron never explicitly said Sean Spicer’s name, he did say it was “the former press guy [for then President Donald Trump].” Spicer was the press secretary during Donald Trump’s controversial presidency in 2017 and didn’t last very long in the position, at 182 days, per CNN.
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Bergeron shared on the podcast that he encouraged production and showrunners to reconsider their decision to bring Spicer on as a dancer. He told them, “This is, you know, not the right time, play to our strengths, be the show that gives people a break from all this bulls***.”
Despite his plea, the show moved forward, and Bergeron felt so strongly about his views that he suggested he take a leave for the year. But when he did, “DWTS” executives gave him another option to release him from his contract. There was no compromise between the host and the show.
