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Dancing with the Stars Season 34<\/strong> recently premiered, igniting several questions from both the series\u2019 present and past. One of the questions that has surfaced is why Tom Bergeron<\/strong> was fired. Bergeron hosted DWTS between 2005 and 2019 until his firing from the dance competition show in 2020. While viewers are aware he was fired, some are still wondering why it happened.<\/p>\n So why was Tom Bergeron fired from Dancing with the Stars? Here\u2019s Tom Bergeron\u2019s DWTS firing explained.<\/p>\n Tom Bergeron was fired from Dancing with the Stars after he opposed the show\u2019s casting of Sean Spicer, Donald Trump<\/span>\u2018s former White House Press Secretary.<\/p>\n Bergeron opened up about his firing in a 2023 appearance on Cheryl Burke\u2019s Sex, Lies, and Spray Tans podcast<\/a>. He revealed it all started in summer 2019, when he had lunch with DWTS\u2019s showrunner and the showrunner\u2019s boss.<\/p>\n The former Hollywood Squares host shared that he urged them not to cast any political figures on the show due to the divisive political climate at the time. He explained he wanted the show to be a \u201cwonderful escape from all that divisiveness for two hours a week\u201d (via The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>). Bergeron then discussed the call he got two weeks after the meetings, where he learned Sean Spicer was cast, despite their discussions.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd I said, \u2018Guys, this is\u00a0exactly\u00a0what we said we wouldn\u2019t do!,\u201d Bergeron recalled. He added that he would have responded the same way if they cast Hilary Clinton, whom he voted for president. Bergeron was furious about the producers\u2019 decision, so much so that he offered to step away for a season. However, the producers countered with an offer to release him from his contract.<\/p>\n \u201cIt really pissed me off \u2026 my temper kicked in,\u201d he shared. \u201cI was at least going to let people know that they f***ing lied to me.\u201d Notably, Bergeron had written a statement on X (formerly Twitter) in 2019, criticizing Dancing with the Stars\u2019 casting of Sean Spicer.<\/p>\n Bergeron discussed the statement he wrote, where he stressed that he did not name any political figures. He acknowledged that they threw him a \u201ccurveball,\u201d but concluded that the producers were entitled to do what they did. \u201cWe will have to agree to disagree,\u201d he further stated. He admitted he knew at the time of writing the statement that his current season would be his last.<\/p>\n Previously, in a 2020 interview with reporters at ABC\u2019s VirtuFall panel, executive producer Andrew Llinares stated that Bergeron and Erin Andrews\u2019 firing was due to the show\u2019s \u201cevolution\u201d (via US Weekly<\/a>).<\/p>\n The post DWTS: Why Was Former Host Tom Bergeron Fired?<\/a> appeared first on ComingSoon.net – Movie Trailers, TV & Streaming News, and More<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dancing with the Stars Season 34 recently premiered, igniting several questions from both the series\u2019 present and past. One of the questions that has surfaced is why Tom Bergeron was fired. Bergeron hosted DWTS between 2005 and 2019 until his firing from the dance competition show in 2020. 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