Tom Bergeron is feeling the love over his Dancing With the Stars return.
“Properly, it’s the morning after the twentieth Birthday Get together present for Dancing With the Stars,” Bergeron, 70, mentioned in a Wednesday, November 12, Instagram video. “Remarkably, I’m not hung over from the afterparty however a little bit bit hoarse.”
He continued, “I simply needed to take a second to thank all of you as a result of [of] the social media response.”
Bergeron was too overcome with emotion to finish his thought, revealing he was “getting choked up.”
“Thanks,” he whispered, waving to the digital camera.
Bergeron additionally captioned his add, “Typically even I’m puzzled. Thanks all SO a lot 🥰.”
Bergeron, the unique host of Dancing With the Stars, returned for Tuesday’s reside present as a visitor decide.
“I’m thrilled to be right here, it’s such a rush. So nice to see you all, and now we have numerous acquainted faces within the audiences,” he mentioned through the broadcast, highlighting what he was in search of within the quarterfinalists’ dances. “You’re per week away from the semifinals, so I’m in search of the kind of dance that induces goosebumps, however since I’m sitting subsequent to Bruno [Tonioli], I’m additionally making an attempt to keep away from a concussion.”
Tuesday’s episode noticed Andy Richter and professional associate Emma Slater’s elimination after a night of dancing in honor of the ballroom competitors’s twentieth anniversary. In tribute to DWTS‘ long-running tenure, every couple carried out a routine impressed by a previous champion’s finale freestyle. The pairs additionally joined forces with a former winner for head-to-head dance relay spherical.
Whereas all eyes have been on the gorgeous routines, many followers have been thrilled to see present OG Bergeron again within the ballroom.
“Your presence was every part! Love you a lot Tom,” present cohost Julianne Hough, who even teared up through the present opening, wrote by way of Instagram touch upon Wednesday.
Fellow alum Sharna Burgess added, “Having you there, your presence and your voice within the ballroom was every part, You’re so cherished.”
The Dancing With the Stars showrunners prompted a stir after they changed hosts Tom Bergeron and Erin Andrews with Tyra Banks in July 2020 — nevertheless it wasn’t the primary time the position had a change of guards. Bergeron served because the fixed host for the dance competitors from its 2005 debut via season 28, […]
Bergeron sat on the judges’ desk with Tonioli, 69, Derek Hough and Carrie Ann Inaba.
“You have been sensible final night time,” Inaba, 57, replied to Bergeron’s social media message. “It felt like residence with you there.”
Bergeron started internet hosting the present throughout 2005’s season 1, which Inaba and Tonoili judged alongside the late Len Goodman. (Goodman died in 2023 on the age of 78.)
Bergeron left DWTS in 2020 earlier than Tyra Banks and, later, Alfonso Ribeiro took his place.
“We cherished and can cherish each second of you being again within the ballroom,” Ribeiro wrote by way of Instagram on Wednesday. “For me personally, it meant the world to me to have the ability to spend a lot high quality time with you.”
As Bergeron made his triumphant return to the dance ground, he additionally had excessive hopes for the present’s future.
“In my final feedback as a decide, I need to speak on to the community,” he quipped on air, going through the digital camera straight. “This present is setting scores data once more, so subsequent season, deliver again the outcomes present. Let the entire nation vote. Let all people vote.”
Dancing With the Stars airs on ABC and Disney+ Tuesdays at 8 p.m.
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