Sean Spicer on Dancing with the Stars backlash: "I hope it will be a politics-free zone"

The Hollywood Reporter

The former White House press secretary responded to the blowback of his involvement in Season 28, including from host Tom Bergeron. "My hope is that at the end of the season, Tom looks back on this and realizes what a great example it was of being able to bring people of really diverse backgrounds together to have fun with each other, engage in a real civil and respectful way and maybe show millions of Americans how we can get back to that kind of interaction," Spicer tells The Hollywood Reporter.

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