Bobby Bones is reflecting on his back-and-forth with Tom Bergeron, which resulted in him deciding to return his coveted Dancing With the Stars trophy.
“I had a minor meltdown about per week and a half ago because [of] Tom Bergeron, who I like [and] still love,” Bones, 45, said on the Saturday, November 22, episode of his “Bobbycast” podcast. “I used to be surprised by his response to the query who’s one of the crucial surprising eliminations. They didn’t even ask him about me.”
Bergeron, 70, recently told Parade that he was shocked to see Bones win season 27 despite never topping the DWTS leaderboard.
“I actually have total awareness of my entire situation,” Bones said on Saturday. “It hurt my feelings a lot. I actually have a job where I give opinions on a regular basis. Every time I create controversy, which I do at times, … I’m good because I signed up for this.”
In line with Bones, he was hurt by Bergeron’s comments due to their past interactions on DWTS.
“That was someone [who] was so helpful to me throughout the show ‘cause he knew I used to be struggling,” the radio host said. “I still love Tom, but that hurt my feelings.”
Because of this of the drama, Bones publicly revealed he planned to return his mirrorball trophy back to ABC.
“I used to be made to feel I used to be really bad at dancing, which I used to be, [but] then I got to be OK,” Bones said, noting he does regret returning the trophy. “Someone has reached out to me from the network, and so they said they’d give it back. It’s whatever I would like.”
Bones, meanwhile, has yet to come to a decision whether to just accept the returned mirrorball.
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“It’s not nearly Tom, [but] it’s the association sometimes. I have a look at that and that’s the one thing I’ver ever done where I purposefully just tried hard, worked hard, tried to make people higher around me,” he recalled. “I’d help other contestants [during] their camera time. … I did the whole lot I could to assist, after which for people to go, ‘We expect you’re lower than,’ that was my association with the trophy.”
Bones continued, “There are things where [I understand] people don’t like me because I say this or feel this fashion, I signed up for that. That is the one thing where I used to be the underdog who won, after which that’s held against me. That association form of soared it a bit.”
Bones further revealed that he never had any “intention of occurring” DWTS in the primary place, but was approached with the chance as a method to promote his role on ABC’s American Idol.
Tom Bergeron may not miss his role as cohost of Dancing With the Stars, but there’s one thing from the ABC series he wishes he still had in his life. “The paycheck,” Bergeron hilariously revealed in a recent interview with E! News. “There are some people I miss, but I’m really blissful not hosting.” […]
“I remember saying, ‘I’ve never danced, that sounds fun, but I don’t plan to last 4 weeks,’” he said. “I don’t do anything without going as hard as I can. There was a time … [when] I used to be so behind that I’d go and rent a studio by myself and put the phone up and watch practice and check out to do it higher.”
Bones stressed that he had “never been more committed to anything” as he was to DWTS — until he married his wife, Caitlin Parker, in 2021.
“I used to be so committed,” he said. “I used to be happy with myself, [and] I wasn’t as bad as I used to be made to consider I used to be. I’m not good, by the best way.”