Billy Bush For Dancing With The Stars Season 24??
Mark down our first rumor for Dancing With The Stars Season 24. According to Page Six, producers has began courting Bully Bush. Let us know what you think in comments.
An insider tells Page Six that “Dancing with the Stars” has begun courting the embattled “Today” star, 44, to compete on their upcoming spring 2017 season.
“It comes in March,” the source told us. “That’s far enough away. Everybody goes on to do the apology tour. It’s ironic there is Ryan Lochte on, who he started this controversy with when he started with ‘Today.’”
If Bush inks a deal with the show, which has relaunched a number of careers, he could dance his way to a new job on a new network.
“It’s also a way for ABC to establish a relationship with him,” the source noted.
Page Six previously reported Bush is already searching for a “high-power fixer” to help his ailing image. Another source emphatically said, “His likability factor has always been off anyway as a lot of viewers find him annoying.” And this could help.
More at Page Six. I’m not sure I want to comment on this one or not? Even before this scandal, I’ve found him annoying.
One word….YUCK!
I used to like him but i forget what year but he was interviewing j-lo and said something about her in a bikini with this weird look on his face and it creeped me out. Honestly, he just is A bit off. Hoping they don’t get him on the show.
I really can’t stomach him. I’ve felt this way about him for a long time…
No thanks…
I have never liked him. He has always come across as creepy to me. I was shocked when Today went to land him for their show. If you look back through Access Hollywood things, he has acted inappropriate/creepy/frat boy with more than one actress. But all of this has nothing to do with DWTS. TPTB will do what they want as always and I will vote as I want as always.
Carrie W
I totally agree with you. I stopped watching Access Hollywood just because I did not like his personality. Now, I’m back with Nancy O’Donell and Kevin F. He was to arrogant and know-it-all individual. I watched the Today show up until 9:00 am Chicago time, then I turn away. I do not want him to do DWTS. Just my opinion.
no thanks, didn’t much care for him at all as an interviewer on Access Hollywood – his questions always had that skeevy tone to them.
but i bet we will see him on the DWTS redemption tour next season. doubt TPTB can pass him up, if indeed he is interested in doing the show.
who knows, he may turn out to very likeable (don’t see that happening, frankly), stranger things have happened on this show. there’s many a dancer i didn’t think i would like, but then did. and vice versa.
So funny! I was just thinking that yesterday after reading that he’s negotiating an exit…he is pure fodder for DWTS’ casting dept.
I always found him a bit snarky and sarcastic. I can’t remember who it was, but I remember him basically making fun of a DWTS contestant right in front of her during the interview and she didn’t even realize or maybe took the high road.
And now he might end up doing the show himself.
Also, unrelated to Billy Bush but on Beverley Mitchell’s instagram she replied to a comment that she would do DWTS if the producers asked her to with a smiley face…so maybe she’ll be on next season as well (seems like she wants to).
Dude is a sleeze and hopefully will be out of the limelight by next DWTS cycle. I really only saw him interviewing DWTS contestants and pros and he was always trying for the sexy info. Always found him pretty disgusting and hope his two seconds of fame are over and done with.
I would feel for any pro that had to dance with him.
Somehow I don’t see this show as being the right vehicle for changing audience perception of a perv. As it is, they keep a perfect balance of sexiness and Disney-ness…. adding a guy known for his creepiness would feel, I think, like that badly done showmance with Kelly and Val. Just yuck. And which of our lovely pros would they match him with? Surely not Lindsay.
Has it been tried before?
This would be bad for DWTS. I hope they resist.
NO, no and NOOO! I cannot imagine watching or listening to him trying to resurrect himself & we would be forced to watch those awful Trump tapes again as background info!
I don’t want someone who enables sexual predatory behavior anywhere near the female pros.
I don’t care for Billy, and I agree he’s skeevy, but…
He worked for NBC. Donald Trump was an NBC STAR – would YOU have told the Donald to shut the hell up or would you have played along out of fear of losing your job?? And let’s not forget that NBC KNEW what they had on those tapes all this time and didn’t say a word about it until someone else leaked it. Producers watch every second of that footage in order to edit it down to air. PLUS, Billy Bush apparently TOLD the NBC execs (or reminded them) back in August that that footage existed – they did nothing. Now they are scapegoating.
I can’t stand Billy Bush, personally, but what I like far less is a huge media conglomerate scapegoating an employee that was likely going along to get along and keep his (very lucrative) job, to take the heat off of themselves. Then there is the whole way The Donald goes about trying to ruin every single person who crosses him – and who was Billy Bush at the time? Essentially a nobody. He’s getting scapegoated, and the actual sexual predator is still running for president and people will actually vote for him. So, seriously….Billy Bush is the issue here?
Okay…I feel better now. 😉
Again, I chuckle…ya’ll are worried about Billy Bush on DWTS but the actual dude who made the comments about sexual assault IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!! I can’t be the only one who is shocked by this.
And he “enables” sexual predatory behavior?? I don’t think so. Donald Trump doesn’t need Billy Bush around to be a deviant and I doubt very much he was there when the MANY women who were assaulted by Trump when Billy was just a kid.
Linde: “I bet we will see him on the DWTS redemption tour next season.”
Dunno bout that…if O.J. Simpson makes upcoming parole, Billy’ll have some boku competition for TPTB’s attention.
PH, I agree with EVERYTHING you said about Trump. but what disgusted me about Billy Bush was the way he kind of forced the actress to hug Trump right after he made those awful comments.
I agree with everything PH said. I don’t like Billy Bush at all, and he should have spoken up to Trump, but his (Billy’s) lawyer said today that if he had spoken up at the time, he would have lost his job the next day, and I believe that. Trump is powerful, and vindictive, and makes threats against people on a daily basis, so I don’t doubt that he would have tried to destroy Billy. I would be afraid of Trump in that situation too. Having said that, I hope Billy doesn’t do DWTS.
Billy Bush is a toady. Has always been a toady, will always be a toady. It’s how he got to where he was and it’s the way Hollywood works, unfortunately.
But there is also no question that NBC is attempting to scapegoat him in order to look good. And Billy Bush now has a top attorney and is suing them – I would bet he wins.
I try not to say no to controversial contestants because, honestly, I’ve liked pretty much all of them, but Billy Bush is ugh. Aside from the tape, I’ve always felt he was skeazy, and I’ve hated his interviews with DWTS contestants. I just keep coming back to Andy Dick, though. He had several groping, etc. situations and was charged with sexual battery- and he had an incredible run on the show, so who knows.
I have a friend that works by NBC where they film the today show and Henson already out of posters and stuff (he was in the ones by the window and cutouts and all that stuff and then suddenly poof he is gone lol. Might be mean to say but that would be one lawsuit I might be interested
In seeing on tv. Seems like the today show has a weird retention rate in regards to on air people lol.
He said* not Henson lol
Last post sorry this autocorrect: he is*
Well, I won’t cry any crocodile tears for Billy Bush. He did not need to encourage Trump to kiss that soap star. He did that right after all the disgusting talk in the bus. What was that about? That was about him not only being a toadie, but to get his jollies watching how a man who says he’s a celebrity can do anything to a woman. A toadie is someone who maybe not in agreement with the behaviour but does nothing to stop it. But Bush is more than that. He decided to keep the disgusting behaviour going by pushing the physical contact button between Trump and the woman. When they meet her, they’re not talking filth but Trump and Bush know exactly what they are doing, they are leering. The sad thing is the woman was just an object to exploit, not a human being who was in on ‘the fun’. When Trump saw her he says “it” not she looks good. I only hope Trump didn’t corner her in a room somewhere. I’m not sure that Bush has the ability to be a gentleman to any of females on the show at all.He even encouraged Trump to speak about Nancy O’Dell, his colleague in such demeaning terms. He has been tainted by people like Trump who will take advantage of anyone. If DWTS brings him on, after all the sorid details of this election, it would be just poloarizing and not fun to watch.
I really hope that Billy Bush is not on the show. I stopped watching Access Hollywood quite a while ago because of him. He looks so boy-next-door and yet he would always somehow ask the slimiest questions when even the nicest people were on the show. I realize his job was to bring us fun/interesting info, but he seemed to relish making people feel uncomfortable. I would not like to see our pro female dancers subjected to anyone who has already shown his inability to stand up for his co-worker Nancy O’Dell when she was being talked about in a crude way and maligned but who has been shown to encourage misogynistic behavior.
No Thanks! Even after Donald Trumps inexcusable and deplorable remarks about women, Billy still encouraged a tic-tac prepared Donald to hug the actress in the purple. Shame on Billy!
The thing that gets me though, Billy lost his job and Donald still gets to run for president.
Some are kinda missing my point. I don’t want Billy on the show (and this rumor has already been debunked anyway) and I’m certainly not crying any “crocodile tears” (totally wrong way to use that phrase, by the way, unless your intent was to be insulting as hell to ME). My point was that NBC KNEW all about both Trump and Billy’s behavior and they did nothing about it until they were caught with their pants down. Was Billy an idiot? He’s always been an idiot…but NBC was pretty damn guilty in this scenario, and could have taken Billy out (if they thought he was bad) YEARS ago. And didn’t. I think they are culpable in this scenario, much like any big business who ignores sexual harassment until caught on TV, and THEN they fire the dude months or years after it happened because now people are looking. They made his behavior acceptable (in his mind, and the mind of those who work around him) by being SILENT.
DWTS is a positive, family show and affiliating itself with Bush would bring it down to sleazy new lows. If Billy Bush were to become a “star” on DWTS I’d boycott the show not only for that season, but ’til the end of its days (and the pros all have contracts for three more years, at least?).
The Pros contracts or lack there of don’t dictate…or have anything to do with…how long the show lasts.
Preach, PH. Every time there’s anything on this site that is even remotely political, I come in to post something and find that you already say everything I intended. Billy Bush is a slimeball, but he was NBC’s slimeball until the tapes got released. Now he’s going to rake in a huge settlement, and rightly so. But I definitely prefer to keep him away from my sparkly dance show forever.
if this casting choice is true, i think i have an idea who he would be paired with(sorry emma)