Former Dancing With the Stars host Brooke Burke received’t be making a return to the ballroom for the present’s twentieth birthday particular after her 2014 exit.
Burke, 54, defined why she received’t be attending the extremely anticipated occasion through the Tuesday, November 4, episode of Jennie Garth’s “I Select Me” podcast.
“A redo is tough for me,” Burke informed fellow former contestant Garth, 53. “I suppose there’s some issues which can be price a repeat in your life, however I really feel like I wrung it out and I did every part I wanted to do on that present.”
Burke added that regardless of the “wonderful relationships” she fashioned throughout her time on DWTS as each a competitor and as cohost, she finally feels her time on the sequence is behind her. “It was one of the vital watched reveals on tv. It will be arduous to return there with the identical stage of pleasure and appreciation,” she stated.
Garth, for her half, joked that she additionally “received an electronic mail” concerning the particular — which airs November 11 — that she “purposely didn’t learn.”
Burke and Garth had been each paired with former professional Derek Hough — now a decide on the present — throughout their respective seasons. Garth landed in fourth place on season 5 in 2007, Hough’s first season, whereas Burke and Hough took dwelling the mirrorball two seasons later. Burke later hosted the present with Tom Bergeron from seasons 10 by way of 17.
“I by no means say no, by no means closed doorways professionally, however I imply, it was eight seasons, and I did every part I wanted to do within the ballroom,” Burke continued, including that she “had a lot enjoyable” on DWTS though it was “one of many hardest issues I’ve ever finished in my complete life.”
This isn’t the primary time Burke has addressed her exit from DWTS. She opened up about being let go from the present throughout a 2024 episode of Getting Grilled With Curtis Stone, revealing that whereas she was “able to do different issues” on the time, it was “disappointing” to search out out she wasn’t being requested again.
“However I feel it’s stunning when there’s a change in our enterprise, simply to humanize it, to be trustworthy, to be susceptible,” she added. “I feel it was actually disappointing. I wasn’t anticipating it.”
As for why she was “let go,” Burke stated there have been a “variety of causes on either side.”
Burke detailed how she came upon she wouldn’t be returning for season 18 on her Fashionable Mother weblog shortly after the information broke in 2014.
“The one stunning factor about it, for me, was the best way wherein all of it went down,” she wrote, claiming she came upon “simply weeks” earlier than the premiere. “I might have appreciated a heads-up and the courtesy of communication, however we’re not all the time privileged to get that within the office.”
She additionally shared how tough it was to inform her youngsters, who didn’t perceive the distinction between being let go and being fired. (Burke shares youngsters Neriah, 24, Sierra, 22, Heaven, 18, and Shaya, 16, with exes Garth Fisher and David Charet.)
“My son shouted, ‘You bought fired, Mommy?!’” she remembered son Shaya asking her. “I attempted to clarify the distinction between being fired and being let go. Then he yelled, ‘You give up!’ I laughed on the positive line in all of it. Then I did my highest to explain to my kids the fact of change and the necessity to maneuver by way of it with grace.”
Burke will not be the one DWTS cohost to be requested to exit the ballroom over time. Audiences had been shocked when authentic emcee Bergeron introduced in July 2020 that he and then-cohost Erin Andrews wouldn’t be returning for season 29.
“Simply knowledgeable @DancingABC might be persevering with with out me,” Bergeron wrote by way of X on the time. “It’s been an unbelievable 15-year run and essentially the most surprising present of my profession. I’m grateful for that and for the lifelong friendships made. That stated, now what am I speculated to do with all of those glitter masks?”
He later appeared on an October 2023 episode of Cheryl Burke’s “Intercourse, Lies and Spray Tans” podcast to debate his exit, claiming his want to maintain politics out of the ballroom was partially accountable. (Bergeron was beforehand vocal about Sean Spicer’s casting on season 28.)
“I’m positive they’ll provide you with a distinct motive [as for why I was fired],” he added, noting that he would “by no means” return as host. “It’s not the identical present. It’s not the identical world. There’s no level. What would I show? … Let the present both exist with the recent blood that it has now or die a pure demise.”
Dancing With the Stars’ twentieth Birthday Particular airs on ABC and Disney+ Tuesday, November 11, at 8 p.m. ET. It will likely be accessible to stream subsequent day on Hulu.
