Posted on 07/14/2020 8:54:20 PM PDT by EdnaMode
This is next-level fierce: Dancing With the Stars has tapped Tyra Banks to replace Tom Bergeron as host.
The announcement comes roughly 36 hours after ABC confirmed the departures of the ABC dance competition’s longtime host Bergeron as well as co-host Erin Andrews. Banks’ reign will begin with Season 29, slated to bow this fall (view ABC’s complete fall lineup here).
In a statement, the erstwhile America’s Top Model host said, “I’ve been a fan of DWTS since its beginning. The fun mixed with raw emotion, seeing celebrities push past their comfort zones, the sizzling dance performances. It’s always transported me to my days of turning it up 10 notches on the catwalk. Tom has set a powerful stage, and I’m excited to continue the legacy and put on my executive producer and hosting hats.”
In confirming Bergeron and Andrews’ exits earlier this week, ABC teased that DWTS was embarking “on a new creative direction.”
For his part, Bergeron seemed taken off guard by his ouster, tweeting on Monday, “Just informed @DancingABC will be continuing without me. It’s been an incredible 15 year run and the most unexpected gift of my career. I’m grateful for that and for the lifelong friendships made. That said, now what am I supposed to do with all of these glitter masks?”
Hours later, Andrews tweeted her own statement. “Thank you ABC and the entire Dancing With the Stars family for [six] memorable seasons,” she wrote. “Those years wouldn’t have been as special without my loving host Tom Bergeron, the talented dancers, and witty judges. I will always cherish my days on that set, even if I wasn’t the best at walking in heels.”
This show lost me a few years ago. 2016 was last time I watched. Used to be a family thing for years.
“..ABC teased that DWTS was embarking “on a new creative direction.”
Help me out here...how does that equate to “WE WANTED TO CHANGE THE RACE OF THE HOST”?
Exactly. Bergeron was just another worthless Hollywood SJW who has been hoisted on his own petard. I'm sure he'll look back proudly at the fact that he checked his white privilege and gave up his place to a woman of color.
Old white males not wanted.
Tyra Banks is passionately in love with herself! It won’t take much more than two episodes for the viewers to notice that as well and become annoyed to the point they won’t watch the show anymore.
Public praise for my wife who predicted black and female.
Seems quite obvious that whites are being purged.
They are purging all white males.
There was a lot of good will towards blacks by white people who were sympathetic to them.
I see that good will evaporating quickly. It’s looking like white people will need to start looking out for ourselves, because nobody else will. And if that’s racist, I no longer care.
“It’s looking like white people will need to start looking out for ourselves, because nobody else will.”
Start? Since preferential treatment was upheld by the Supreme Court years ago this has been the case (and it still failed to get the desired results).
Five will get you ten that 50% of the celebrities this year will be black. Next year, all black.
One question. How are 13% of the population going to fill all the jobs held by 64% of the population?
Just wait ‘til the backlash starts. I know people who don’t have a racist bone in their bodies are now fed up to the gills will all of this contrived nonsense. Remarkably, the attribute this not to the blacks but to the democrats.
Zimbabwe solved that problem.
We watch ‘Titan Games’ on Monday for a little mindless diversion after listen to Rush and watching Tucker. Last week my wife actually said ‘get me my white sheet, from now on I’m always rooting for the white contestant’. This woman has never had a racist bone in her body, but she’s fed up. She won’t be happy about Tom and Erin. She liked both of them.
If you scroll through the screen caps of shows on Netflix and Hulu, you see very few white males. That is intentional.
The destruction of white culture is not about race, it is about the brutal annihilation of democracy and Christianity.
There won’t be a next year since the article says this will be the last season. It seems rather pointless to dump longtime hosts just to move in a new direction in the announced last season. Talk about tokenism.
The purpose is to demoralize white people to the point where they will not longer fight for freedom.
Practically every host on every reality and game show is black right now. Good grief.
Ooops my mistake. The final season thing was a prediction in post 2. Never mind.
Not attractive.
How about getting a attractive host who can also dance?
Here are some dancers and great music.
Hooked On Swing Dancing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHANNkKBSNU
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