{"id":2147044,"date":"2025-11-10T18:17:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T18:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2147044"},"modified":"2025-11-10T18:17:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T18:17:12","slug":"tom-bergeron-reflects-on-shock-dwts-exit-and-why-hes-making-a-return-if-the-previous-regime-was-still-in-charge-i-wouldnt-go-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/tom-bergeron-reflects-on-shock-dwts-exit-and-why-hes-making-a-return-if-the-previous-regime-was-still-in-charge-i-wouldnt-go-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Bergeron Reflects on Shock \u2018DWTS\u2019 Exit and Why He\u2019s Making a Return: \u201cIf the Previous Regime Was Still in Charge, I Wouldn\u2019t Go Back\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If there was a Mount Rushmore of Dancing With the Stars<\/a> greats, Tom Bergeron<\/a>\u2019s face would have already been carved into stone.<\/p>\n

The former original host of the competitive ABC ballroom series is making his surprise return to the ballroom for Tuesday night\u2019s 20th anniversary show. Five years ago, Bergeron was fired from the hosting position after he came out in outward opposition of the series casting Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer<\/a> in season 28.<\/p>\n

In the years since his exit, he hasn\u2019t shied away from voicing his frustrations surrounding his departure. That\u2019s why it came to much surprise when Bergeron revealed on Good Morning<\/a> America last Wednesday that he\u2019d be heading back to the ballroom for the first time since his exit as a guest judge.<\/p>\n

Bergeron tells The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> he\u2019s \u201cthrilled\u201d to step into the new role,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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If there was a Mount Rushmore of Dancing With the Stars greats, Tom Bergeron\u2019s face would have already been carved into stone. The former original host of the competitive ABC ballroom series is making his surprise return to the ballroom for Tuesday night\u2019s 20th anniversary show. Five years ago, Bergeron was fired from the hosting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2147046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2147044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Tom-Bergeron-Reflects-on-Shock-\u2018DWTS-Exit-and-Why-Hes.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147044","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=2147044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2147047,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147044\/revisions\/2147047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2147046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2147044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2147044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2147044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}