Taking the lead! The Dancing With the Stars showrunners brought on a stir after they changed hosts Tom Bergeron and Erin Andrews with Tyra Banks in July 2020 — but it surely wasn’t the primary time the function had a change of guards.
Bergeron served because the fixed host for the dance competitors from its 2005 debut by means of season 28, which aired in 2019. Forward of his exit in the summertime of 2020, he solely briefly stepped away from the present to are likely to his ailing father, which is when former contestant Alfonso Ribeiro stuffed in.
The previous America’s Funniest Dwelling Movies host, nevertheless, had his fair proportion of cohosts earlier than Andrews got here on board in 2014 beginning with season 18.
“Love u @Tom_Bergeron!! I can’t wait … and the very best half is I gained’t be getting 7’s from Len [Goodman] and yelled at for not pointing my toes! #winner,” Andrews tweeted in February 2014 after information broke of her new internet hosting gig.
The sports activities journalist competed on DWTS throughout season 10 with professional Maksim Chmerkovskiy as her associate. They got here in third place.
Bergeron and Andrews have been caught off guard when ABC determined to chop them each as hosts after 11 seasons collectively in 2020.
“It’s been an unbelievable 15-year run and essentially the most sudden reward of my profession,” Bergeron tweeted in July of that 12 months. “I’m grateful for that and for the lifelong friendships made.”
Andrews, for her half, thanked the community for her time on the present and her longtime buddy Bergeron for being by her facet the entire time.
“Thanks ABC and all the Dancing With the Stars household for six memorable seasons,” the previous Good Morning America correspondent tweeted on the time. “These years wouldn’t have been as particular with out my loving host Tom Bergeron, the gifted dancers, and witty judges.”
She later mirrored on the shocking profession change in November 2021, completely telling Us Weekly that it was truly a blessing in disguise.
“I give my finest to them. My schedule has been so loopy with [football commentating], the clothes line, the podcasts … making an attempt to have a child, that I believe it was the very best factor for me,” the Maine native mentioned. “They wished to go a unique course, and so they’re doing that now. So, hopefully they’re pleased.”
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