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Former \u201cDancing With The Stars\u201d champion and radio host Bobby Bones dismissed Hilaria Baldwin\u2019s claim<\/a> that she was bullied off the show despite also calling the show\u2019s fans the \u201cmeanest fanbase of anything ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cI got bullied like crazy, but people like me, so I won the show. So that\u2019s bullcrap,\u201d Bones said Monday<\/a> on TikTok about Baldwin\u2019s claim.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Baldwin, the wife of actor Alec Baldwin, was the third celebrity eliminated on Season 34 of \u201cDancing With The Stars.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n There was already controversy<\/a> surrounding Baldwin\u2019s participation in the competition because she had competed as a ballroom dancer in her early 20s. But during an Instagram Live on Sunday<\/a>, the former yoga instructor said she was \u201cbullied off the show.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Bones, who competed with pro dancer Sharna Burgess during the 27th season of \u201cDancing With The Stars\u201d in 2018, rejected that notion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cNo, no, no, you didn\u2019t get bullied off the show,\u201d Bones said in his TikTok. \u201cI don\u2019t know her. But you got eliminated because people didn\u2019t like you.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Baldwin, who in the past has been accused of cultural appropriation<\/a> and misrepresenting where she was raised, said Saturday<\/a> that there was \u201cvery coordinated strategic bullying\u201d aimed at her while she was on \u201cDancing With The Stars.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n She also said on the show\u2019s official podcast<\/a>, which was recorded after her Tuesday elimination, that there was a \u201cbig problem online right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cWe don\u2019t see each other,\u201d she said<\/a>. \u201cWe make enemies out of each other. And I\u2019m talking about my fellow women. Women\u2019s inhumanity to women. We need to stop. We will never get anywhere.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n Bones, too, has been vocal in the past about the criticism he received from \u201cDancing With The Stars\u201d fans. In his TikTok, he called the show\u2019s fanbase the \u201cmeanest fanbase of anything ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cAs someone who was treated like crap by the hardcore fans of the show, yeah, bullying happens, but you don\u2019t get bullied off the show,\u201d Bones said in his TikTok video. \u201cYou get kicked off the show because nobody voted for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Despite the online criticism and receiving consistently low scores from the judges throughout the season, Bones actually won \u201cDancing With The Stars\u201d in 2018, leaving some fans outraged, including actor Neil Patrick Harris, who wrote on social media the night of the finale<\/a>, \u201cDancing With the Stars just confirmed why I don\u2019t watch Dancing With the Stars.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Most recently, Julianne Hough, who was once a pro on the show and now co-hosts it, said last year <\/a>that the winner she most disagreed with was Bones.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Truth<\/span>Has No<\/span>Bias<\/span><\/p>\n Your Support<\/span>Fuels<\/span>Our Mission<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Your Support<\/span>Fuels<\/span>Our Mission<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n