Wednesday, August 21, 2019 5:29:03 PM
Sean Spicer Will Join Dancing With the Stars.
Host Tom Bergeron Isn’t Thrilled
What an appropriately bleak lead-in to 2020.
By Laura Bradley
August 21, 2019
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/08/dancing-with-the-stars-2019-cast-sean-spicer?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=vf&utm_mailing=VF_CH_082119&utm_medium=email&bxid=5be9d70d24c17c6adf3edd69&cndid=24399211&hasha=4598f2b6c0cd59a7a59daee9f650852d&hashb=671cd628e76263b323d81893330770d25227e6a4&hashc=bf3b42645b84b560d7a701f6a774e86e26ef76ed150095ebb2489a9ecea9251d&esrc=bounceX&utm_campaign=VF_CH_082119&utm_term=VYF_Cocktail_Hour
Update (12:10 P.M.): Dancing with the Stars host Tom Bergeron is evidently less than thrilled with the show’s decision to include Sean Spicer in its Season 28 line-up. In a statement posted on Twitter, Bergeron wrote, “A few months ago, during a lunch with DWTS’ new Executive Producer, I offered suggestions for Season 28. Chief among them was my hope that DWTS, in its return following an unprecedented year-long hiatus, would be a joyful respite from our exhausting political climate and free of inevitably divisive bookings from ANY party affiliations. I left that lunch convinced we were in agreement.”
“Subsequently (and rather obviously),” the statement continues, “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. I’ll leave it to them to answer any further questions about those decisions.”
“For me, as host, I always gaze into the camera’s lens and imagine you on the other side, looking for a two hour escape from whatever life hassles you’ve been wrestling with,” Bergeron concluded. “That’s a connection, and a responsibility, which I take very seriously, even if I occasionally season it with dad jokes.
Hopefully, when Erin Andrews and I look into those lenses again on September 16, you’ll be on the other side looking back, able to enjoy the charismatic pro dancers, the unpredictable judges and the kitschy charm that has defined DWTS since 2005.”
Friends, countrymen, let us all release a collective “ugh.” On Wednesday, ABC announced that former White House press secretary and haunting Easter bunny Sean Spicer will join Dancing With the Stars season 28.
The series returns this fall, making Spicer’s reemergence seem portentous; what could be a more appropriate lead-in to an already bleak 2020 presidential race than a reality-competition franchise embracing an ex-press secretary who spent his time at that job berating and lying to the press about crowd size?
We knew this day would come, especially since Spicer has reportedly been mulling the prospect for years—but still, you really, truly hate to see it.
What’s particularly galling about this move—beyond the fact that a man who helped undermine democracy is now getting a lighthearted TV comeback—is that ABC is, essentially, playing right into Spicer’s hands.
He’s been angling for a TV comeback basically since he left the White House in 2017. Given how annoyed some viewers were by Spicer’s 2017 Emmys stunt, it seems fair to wonder if our collective patience will be even thinner now that we’re being asked to watch him learn to cha-cha.
As for the rest of the cast? According to People, the roster includes Karamo Brown, Hannah Brown, Christie Brinkley, James Van Der Beek, Lamar Odom, Kel Mitchell, and many more. We’re sure they’ll all have a lot to talk about when the season premieres on September 16.
Host Tom Bergeron Isn’t Thrilled
What an appropriately bleak lead-in to 2020.
By Laura Bradley
August 21, 2019
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/08/dancing-with-the-stars-2019-cast-sean-spicer?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=vf&utm_mailing=VF_CH_082119&utm_medium=email&bxid=5be9d70d24c17c6adf3edd69&cndid=24399211&hasha=4598f2b6c0cd59a7a59daee9f650852d&hashb=671cd628e76263b323d81893330770d25227e6a4&hashc=bf3b42645b84b560d7a701f6a774e86e26ef76ed150095ebb2489a9ecea9251d&esrc=bounceX&utm_campaign=VF_CH_082119&utm_term=VYF_Cocktail_Hour
Update (12:10 P.M.): Dancing with the Stars host Tom Bergeron is evidently less than thrilled with the show’s decision to include Sean Spicer in its Season 28 line-up. In a statement posted on Twitter, Bergeron wrote, “A few months ago, during a lunch with DWTS’ new Executive Producer, I offered suggestions for Season 28. Chief among them was my hope that DWTS, in its return following an unprecedented year-long hiatus, would be a joyful respite from our exhausting political climate and free of inevitably divisive bookings from ANY party affiliations. I left that lunch convinced we were in agreement.”
“Subsequently (and rather obviously),” the statement continues, “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. I’ll leave it to them to answer any further questions about those decisions.”
“For me, as host, I always gaze into the camera’s lens and imagine you on the other side, looking for a two hour escape from whatever life hassles you’ve been wrestling with,” Bergeron concluded. “That’s a connection, and a responsibility, which I take very seriously, even if I occasionally season it with dad jokes.
Hopefully, when Erin Andrews and I look into those lenses again on September 16, you’ll be on the other side looking back, able to enjoy the charismatic pro dancers, the unpredictable judges and the kitschy charm that has defined DWTS since 2005.”
Friends, countrymen, let us all release a collective “ugh.” On Wednesday, ABC announced that former White House press secretary and haunting Easter bunny Sean Spicer will join Dancing With the Stars season 28.
The series returns this fall, making Spicer’s reemergence seem portentous; what could be a more appropriate lead-in to an already bleak 2020 presidential race than a reality-competition franchise embracing an ex-press secretary who spent his time at that job berating and lying to the press about crowd size?
We knew this day would come, especially since Spicer has reportedly been mulling the prospect for years—but still, you really, truly hate to see it.
What’s particularly galling about this move—beyond the fact that a man who helped undermine democracy is now getting a lighthearted TV comeback—is that ABC is, essentially, playing right into Spicer’s hands.
He’s been angling for a TV comeback basically since he left the White House in 2017. Given how annoyed some viewers were by Spicer’s 2017 Emmys stunt, it seems fair to wonder if our collective patience will be even thinner now that we’re being asked to watch him learn to cha-cha.
As for the rest of the cast? According to People, the roster includes Karamo Brown, Hannah Brown, Christie Brinkley, James Van Der Beek, Lamar Odom, Kel Mitchell, and many more. We’re sure they’ll all have a lot to talk about when the season premieres on September 16.
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