Tom Bergeron has been posting a lot of memories from his days as the host of Dancing With the Stars. The beloved TV host, who helmed the ABC celebrity ballroom reception from 2005 to 2019, spent a few years after his departure not saying the show’s name. (Footwork With the Famous, anyone?) But in recent months, he‘s not only talking about Dancing with the Stars, he’s also celebrating it.
Bergeron’s Instagram page is filled with nostalgic posts tagged with @dancingwiththestars and #20thanniversary. Most recently, he posted his favorite Halloween moments from DWTS, but he also posted the Season 34 ratings along with kudos to showrunner Conrad Green for the “revitalization” of the show.
Bergeron has long said he has no interest in returning to DWTS, but the turnaround in his Instagram activity has fans wondering if he’s set to make a cameo for the show’s 20th Anniversary/Birthday Party episode, which will air on Nov. 11.
In a thread on the r/dancingwiththestars subreddit, one fan wrote, “Anyone else desperately hoping that Tom will somehow be involved in next week’s episode, whether as a guest judge or just make an appearance or whatnot for the 20th Anniversary Special?”
“I feel like he’ll be a guest judge,” one fan wrote.
“I think he’ll be involved for sure. Probably a guest judge,” another agreed.
“Him as a guest judge makes more sense than having Gene Simmons. You’d think that after hosting the show for over 10 years he’d pick up on some of the ballroom Latin rules,” another Reddit user wrote.
One thing is for sure: Bergeron won’t fill in for current DWTS host Alfonso Ribeiro.
When a commenter on Instagram told Bergeron fans were hoping to see him “do a little hosting during the DWTS Birthday special,” Bergeron replied, “You won’t see me hosting, but, as I’ll likely be traveling, you’ll at least see a video message from me.”
Fans still think there will be more than a video message from Bergeron, based on his comments last summer. In a previous interview with USA Today, the Emmy winner revealed he had been in touch with Green. “We did have lunch, and we did talk, and I offered a scenario where I might come back for a night in a certain capacity,” Bergeron told the outlet in July. “The mirrorball is back in their court.”
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