Tom Bergeron suggests unhappiness with Sean Spicer's casting on Dancing with the Stars

Entertainment Weekly

The former White House press secretary's casting on Season 28 has drawn backlash. Even Dancing with the Stars host Bergeron is seemingly against Spicer being on the show. In a lengthy Twitter statement, Bergeron didn't mention Spicer by name. But Bergeron wrote about meeting with Dancing's new executive producer months ago. "I offered suggestions for Season 28," he wrote. "Chief among them was my hope that DWTS, in its return from an unprecedented year-long hiatus, would be a joyful respite from our exhausting political climate and free of inevitably divisive bookings from any party affiliation," Bergeron wrote. "I left that lunch convinced we were in agreement. Subsequently (and rather obviously), a decision was made to, as we often say in Hollywood, ‘go in a different direction.' It is the prerogative of the producers, in partnership with the network, to make whatever decisions they feel are in the best long-term interests of the franchise. We can agree to disagree, as we do now, but ultimately it’s their call.”