{"id":2326983,"date":"2026-03-13T19:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T19:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2326983"},"modified":"2026-03-13T19:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T19:44:10","slug":"tom-bergeron-reveals-who-was-originally-eyed-as-his-dwts-host-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/tom-bergeron-reveals-who-was-originally-eyed-as-his-dwts-host-replacement\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Bergeron Reveals Who Was Originally Eyed as His \u2018DWTS\u2019 Host Replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dancing With the Stars<\/a> almost looked a lot different after Tom Bergeron<\/a>\u2018s exit. Bergeron was fired from his longtime role as the host of the ABC competition series in 2020 after disagreeing with the show\u2019s team over casting and creative decisions. Tyra Banks<\/a> took over as the show\u2019s new host later that year. She led the show until 2023, and Alfonso Ribeiro<\/a> and Julianne Hough<\/a> have hosted the series since then. According to Bergeron, another big name was considered to replace him on the show: none other than DWTS<\/a> Season 27 winner Bobby Bones<\/a>. \u201cBefore they went to Tyra Banks to replace me, they went to you, right?\u201d he asked Bones on the Thursday,…<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dancing With the Stars almost looked a lot different after Tom Bergeron\u2018s exit. Bergeron was fired from his longtime role as the host of the ABC competition series in 2020 after disagreeing with the show\u2019s team over casting and creative decisions. Tyra Banks took over as the show\u2019s new host later that year. She led […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2326984,"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":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2326983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","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\/2026\/03\/Tom-Bergeron-Reveals-Who-Was-Originally-Eyed-as-His-\u2018DWTS.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326983","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=2326983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2326985,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326983\/revisions\/2326985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2326984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2326983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2326983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2326983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}