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Derek Hough<\/a> is firing back after Ryan Seacrest<\/a> accused him of nearly breaking an important Wheel of Fortune<\/a><\/em> set piece.<\/p>\n The Dancing with the Stars<\/a><\/em> alum called the host\u2019s claim that he jumped on the titular wheel \u201c1000% NOT true\u201d after he appeared on a September episode of the CBS<\/a> game show with fellow DWTS<\/em> stars Bruno Tonioli<\/a> and Jenna Johnson Chmerkovsky.<\/p>\n More from Deadline<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cIn the commercial break, (Hough) was jumping on the center of the wheel and having Bruno spin it, much like the top of a cake ornament,\u201d Seacrest told USA Today<\/em><\/a>. \u201cWe did say, \u2018Please don\u2019t do that. That would break it, and there\u2019s only one of those wheels. If that breaks, we have a real problem.\u2019<\/p>\n Seacrest recalled he \u201chad to sort of say, \u2018Stick to the ledge,’\u201d noting of the DWTS pros, \u201cThey\u2019re very physical, and that makes for fun.\u201d<\/p>\n After the interview went live, Hough responded this week on social media. \u201cBTW, this is 1000% NOT true,\u201d he wrote on his Instagram Story, according to People<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n Hough added, \u201cI would never disrespect a set like that however awesome that would\u2019ve been to be \u2018spun around it like a cake ornament\u2019 haha.\u201d<\/p>\n While he insists he didn\u2019t jump on the wheel, Hough did jump on the podium at the end of the episode to celebrate winning $63,350 for Feeding America.<\/p>\n Best of Deadline<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for Deadline’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/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":" Derek Hough is firing back after Ryan Seacrest accused him of nearly breaking an important Wheel of Fortune set piece. The Dancing with the Stars alum called the host\u2019s claim that he jumped on the titular wheel \u201c1000% NOT true\u201d after he appeared on a September episode of the CBS game show with fellow DWTS […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2115420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[358722,380660,343995,21872],"class_list":["post-2115419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-bruno-tonioli","tag-commercial-break","tag-derek-hough","tag-ryan-seacrest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Derek-Hough-Reacts-To-Ryan-Seacrests-\u2018Wheel-of-Fortune-Claim.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2115419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2115421,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115419\/revisions\/2115421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2115420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2115419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2115419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2115419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}