“I said, ‘Guys, this is exactly what we said we wouldn’t do.
Don’t go there.
But he says a producer and the showrunner at the time had a different idea.
Tom Bergeron.Eric McCandless via Getty
A very bad, different idea.
The execs then countered with their offer to let him out of his contract.
“They had screwed me.
I’m gonna screw them,” Bergeron explained.
“But I wanted the viewers to know this was a step too far to me.
This was a step too far on the cusp of an election year.
And again had it been a Democrat, same statement.”
“Up until that point, there were people of character there.”
True to his word, Bergeron announced hisdeparturefromDancing With the Starsin July 2020.
And after that game of musical chairs, Ribeiro andJulianne Houghare the currentDWTShosts.
