Controversial DWTS contestant fans forgot caused | TV Shows

As Dancing With the Stars fans look ahead to a aggressive thirty fourth season, they might be considering about the celebrities that could be controversial when the show begins.

The ABC show has never shied away from discovering a celeb who is sure to get fans speaking, whether or not they’re anticipated to stir the pot while competing, spark anger because of their declare to fame, or they’ve past indiscretions.

And while Season 34’s controversial celeb has been revealed shortly with fans admitting they “can’t stand” one individual, they aren’t the individual who has probably been the most important shock in the show’s historical past.

Other celebrities have actually taken to the dance ground that had been seen as controversial over the show’s 20-year run, but one holds the excellence as probably being the most important controversial identify, because of what their run on the show led to.

That celeb is former Trump White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer.

Spicer competed on the show’s twenty eighth season in 2019, alongside Lindsay Arnold.

Despite low scores all season and harsh critiques from the judges, a loyal base of fans saved him going through the competitors, before he was voted out in Week 9, just one week shy of the Semifinals.

His ousting got here after other celebrities had fared better with the judges, including Kate Flannery and Sailor Brinkley-Cook.

However, his controversial run had an influence long after the fact, when it was announced one 12 months later that the show’s hosts, Tom Bergeron and Erin Andrews, had been let go from the show forward of Season 29.

Bergeron has been vocal forward of Season 28 about not wanting Spicer forged on the show, releasing a assertion on X (at the time Twitter) in which he said he had cautioned then-showrunner Andrew Llinares against any political castings.

“A few months ago, during a lunch with DWTS’ new executive producer, I offered suggestions for season 28. Chief among them was my hope that DWTS, in its return following an unprecedented year-long hiatus, would be a joyful respite from our exhausting political climate and free of inevitably divisive bookings from ANY party affiliations. I left that lunch convinced we were in agreement,” he wrote at the time.

“Subsequently (and rather obviously), a decision was made to, as we often say in Hollywood, ‘go in a different direction,’” he continued.

Bergeron admitted in a 2023 episode of Cheryl Burke’s intimacy, Lies and Spray Tans podcast that he had floated the concept of taking Season 28 off because of the disagreement and return in Season 29, which led to execs telling him they may just let him out of his three-year contract instead.

“And that really pissed me off,” he said, before including that the morning Spicer was announced, “My phone started blowing up. At that moment I knew, this was probably my last season. Because of that one betrayal. Because I’d been lied to by people who were in charge. Up until that point, there were people of character there.”

ABC has never commented on the choice to let Bergeron and Andrews go, or his feedback that Spicer’s casting led to his dismissal.

Following their departure, Tyra Banks took over as solo host for Seasons 29 and 30, before being joined by Alfonso Ribeiro in Season 31. She departed after that, and Ribeiro has hosted alongside Julianne Hough since.

Bergeron, who has teased probably coming back for the show’s 20 12 months anniversary, has also since mirrored on his ouster, admitting he never deliberate to renew his contract after season 30 anyway, and that being let go before the 2 seasons shot with no live viewers due to COVID-19 restrictions was a blessing in disguise because he would have hated to end his run during them.

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“The truth of it is, my plan was to leave after Season 30,” he told TV Insider. “As circumstances played out, I left two seasons before.”

“But those seasons were during COVID, so that would’ve been my last two – I would’ve hated them,” he added. “Everything I loved about the show, the camaraderie, hanging out–none of that would’ve been available. I’m glad it didn’t end that way. And not surprisingly, the showrunner that I locked horns with didn’t last much longer anyway.”