Brooke Burke has no plans to return to the ballroom for Dancing With the Stars‘ 20th birthday special — or for any other reason.
The Season 7 champ, who went on to host the show for eight seasons, explained her decision during a recent interview on Jennie Garth’s I Choose Me podcast.
“A redo is hard for me,” Burke, 54, said on the Nov. 4 podcast episode. “I guess there’s some things that are worth a repeat in your life, but I feel like I wrung it out and I did everything I needed to do on that show.”
Despite forming some “amazing relationships” throughout her time on the show, Burke has no interest in revisiting that time in her life.
“It was one of the most watched shows on television. It would be hard to go back there with the same level of excitement and appreciation,” she explained. “I never say no, never closed doors professionally, but I mean, it was eight seasons, and I did everything I needed to do in the ballroom.”
Burke was let go from the show in 2014.
“The only shocking thing about it, really, is the way that it went down,” Burke said today on Good Morning America in March 2014. “Finding out just several weeks before the premiere was a little bit tough, but I’m good.”
Burke’s comments about choosing not to return to DWTS come just one day before former host Tom Bergeron was announced as a guest for the upcoming episode. Bergeron — who previously co-hosted the show alongside Burke — exited the series in a shocking move in 2020 alongside his then-co-host Erin Andrews. The two were replaced by supermodel Tyra Banks, who was later replaced by Dancing With the Stars champ Alfonso Ribeiro.
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