What is host Tom Bergeron looking forward to the most in the new season of Dancing With The Stars? Find out below and more fun goodies. From Parade…..
What are you most looking forward to this season?
It’s going to be sort of a landmark season, the 25th of the show. It’s a big deal. And knowing the production team as well as I do, I know they’ve taken that into account when they’re booking it and building theme weeks and building sort of an arch for the season.
When the cast is assembled and ready to go, do you have an idea of who’s going to win from the start?
No, I’m terrible. Jimmy Kimmel’s much better at predicting it than I am. I’m pretty bad about it. This past season I thought Rashad [Jennings] had a really good shot at winning, but as much as I love David Ross, I wouldn’t have predicted him to come in second. I don’t think he would’ve predicted him to come in second! And I felt a little bad that sometimes my surprise registered on camera. But I just thought David was wonderful and really spoke to what the show is at its best, people who come in, have no dance training, but by sheer force of charm and personality win people over.
What’s been the best part of the show for you?
What I think I’ll always treasure from the experience when the show goes away will have been that camaraderie, that sense of going out onto a live stage in front of millions of people and just knowing that this is going to be fun. That this is an incredible playground that I get to romp around in.
More at Parade. You can also read an interview with Tom at Dish Nation where he says there won’t be any political figures dancing this season.
Also, don’t miss a cool feature on Erin Andrews at Parade as well. Here is a take….
Andrews’ DWTS co-host has plenty to say about their working partnership and what the lead-up to showtime typically looks like.
“We have a production meeting in my dressing room at about 10 a.m. on show day,” says Bergeron. “We’re supposed to be going through the script, but most of the time is spent breaking each other up and being unprofessional. Then the dress rehearsal at 1:30 on show day is even more of a stroll down that particular road, where it’s more R-rated than what you see on the network. Erin’s got a great sense of humor. She’s always unpredictable.”
And, on DWTS, she gets to dress up in ball gowns, which must be a treat after the grass stains and rain slickers of her football gig, right?
“I don’t really like it,” she says, laughing. “I like being on live television. I’m a fan of reality shows, so that’s fun. But I’m not really into dresses and high heels. And wearing Spanx and my hair up with a lot of makeup? I’m better in a flannel, T-shirt and ripped-up jeans.”
One exception: Andrews’ wedding in Montana this past June to 35-year-old former NHL star Jarret Stoll, where she wore two stunning designer gowns—one for the ceremony and one for the reception.
“Our wedding was perfect,” she says. “We just wanted a big party. We had all our friends there, a lot of players my husband hadn’t been with since they [the L.A. Kings] won the Stanley Cup in 2014. We were dancing around and laughing. We loved it so much.”