Bobby Bones is opening up about the “amount of hate” he still receives for his 2018 “Dancing with the Stars” win – and revealing he returned the trophy.
The radio personality and podcast host, 45, posted a TikTok Nov. 12 responding to comments from Tom Bergeron, a former judge on “DWTS,” who told an interviewer from Parade that Bones’ 2018 win had been the one he was most surprised by. Bones won alongside partner Sharna Burgess, beating out Milo Manheim and pro Witney Carson.
“Bobby Bones was the first time I kind of … it was like ouch,” Bergeron said, making a face.
Though he was a host during Bones’ tenure, the 70-year-old television personality was let go from the show in 2020. Bergeron returned this month for a guest spot to celebrate the show’s 20th anniversary.
“I try not to get my feelings hurt, especially about stuff like this, but this was hurtful,” Bones said before playing the clip in his TikTok, adding it was less “because of what was said, but really who said it.”
“I didn’t even want to be on the show,” Bones continued. “I had no intention of being on ‘Dancing with the Stars.’ I was working on a different show at the network, they asked me to go on the show to promote. Am I supposed to not show up and work hard?
“It’s crazy the amount of hate I get, even from people I respect like Tom Bergeron there, and Julianne Hough,” he said, adding that he didn’t know Hough, who is now one of the hosts of the show.
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“Like what did I do?” Bones said. “I had a great attitude. I worked hard, and here we are, like six years later, I’m still catching strays out of nowhere.”
Revealing he had since sent the coveted Mirrorball back to ABC, Bones cautioned listeners to go where you’re wanted, not “tolerated.”
“So, I sent the trophy back. They don’t want me to be a part of the show, obviously. So I don’t want to be somewhere that doesn’t want me to be there,” Bones said.
Bergeron later apologized, posting a screenshot to his Instagram stories Nov. 12 of a DM he sent to Bones on the app.
“Bobby, it wasn’t my intention to hurt your feelings. My ‘ouch’ was based on my honest feeling that your win spoke to a need to address the balance between judge and viewer voting,” he wrote. “I always felt bad that you & Sharna had to deal with the aftermath of that win & I certainly regret pouring any salt into that old wound.”
It’s the last person anyone would expect.
General Hospital keeps throwing suspects at us in the Who Shot Drew mystery. Was it Willow? Michael? Portia? Nina? Jacinda? They all have good reasons to do it. (Most of the audience feels the same.) But there is one person who has the best reason to want Drew gone. And, so far, no one has considered them….
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You’d think, what with gaslighting Willow (Katelyn MacMullen), taunting Michael (Rory Gibson), harassing Portia (Brook Kerr), and trying to steal Monica’s (Leslie Charleson) house — not to mention swiping Tracy’s (Jane Elliot) luggage (SO mature) — Drew (Cameron Mathison) would have no time to be making his daughter Scout’s (Cosette Abinante) life miserable. And if you ask Drew, it’s not Scout he’s trying to make miserable, it’s her brothers, Danny (Asher Antonyzyn) and Rocco (Finn Carr). And her grandmother, Alexis (Nancy Lee Grahn).
Drew is throwing out restraining orders, right and left, to keep them all away from his little girl. For her own good, of course.
Well, Scout isn’t appreciating his efforts. She hasn’t said much about it to Drew. Probably because the poor girl has already lost her mother, Sam (Kelly Monaco).
Drew has isolated her from most of her family. Scout doesn’t want to risk losing her father’s life, too. While he’s alive, that is. If Scout is forced to live with only Drew, it would be nice if he didn’t hate her. On the other hand…
On the other hand… if Scout didn’t have to live with Drew… if he were, say, dead… why, that would be a whole other story! If Drew were out of the way, Scout could see her brothers. And her grandma. And her aunts. And basically anyone she wanted, without fear that Drew might remember that they snubbed him in an elevator once by letting the door shut in his face, and now he has a score to settle.
Could Scout have been the one to shoot Drew? Maybe because she heard about this girl in Salem, who shot her uncle… and got away with it, scot-free.