• Bobby Bones is reflecting on having a "minor meltdown" on account of feedback made by Tom Bergeron, the previous host of Dancing With the Stars, on his season 27 win.
• Bergeron mentioned on Tuesday that throughout 28 seasons on the present, the second that "shocked me most" was Bones' win: "Bobby Bones was the primary time it was like, 'Ouch.'"
• Bones reacted by returning his Mirrorball trophy to ABC, saying Bergeron's feedback "damage my emotions a lot" and noting the community "mentioned they’d give it again."

Bobby Bones is reflecting on a whirlwind week that noticed him so perturbed by the feedback of a Dancing With the Stars former host that he returned his trophy for successful season 27.

"I wish to discuss Dancing with the Stars," he mentioned on the high of Saturday's episode of his Bobbycast podcast, which featured fellow DWTS winner Kaitlyn Bristowe. "I like speaking about it. I’ve such an amazing relationship. Most of my relationship with it’s superior," Bones continued. Emphasis on most.

Although Bones calls the manufacturing course of that led to his victory over season 27 "one of many best experiences of my life," his win stays controversial with what he referred to as "hardcore followers" who’ve "soured" the win a bit by regularly claiming it was undeserved, given his low week-to-week scores. After former host Tom Bergeron appeared to agree with these followers in an interview earlier within the week, Bones mentioned he "had a minor meltdown," resulting in him returning the coveted Mirrorball trophy to ABC.

"It damage my emotions a lot," Bones mentioned.

"Tom Bergeron, who I like, nonetheless love, and liked then. I used to be so shocked at his response to the query of who's one of the vital shocking eliminations," Bones shared. "They didn't even ask him about me. Now had they mentioned the query of, 'Who gained that’s shocking?' I'm all right here. I'm probably the most shocking ever. I do know that. I’ve type of a cool title. I’ve whole consciousness of my total state of affairs. However it wasn't."

In an interview with Parade on Tuesday, Bergeron declined to reply the query of which elimination shocked him probably the most over the course of his internet hosting 28 seasons of the truth competitors sequence. As a substitute, he volunteered, "It's humorous, you're asking about eliminations. The factor that shocked me most was a win. Bobby Bones."

Bergeron in contrast Bones' rocky season 27 trip, which was depressed by low judges' scores however stored afloat by viewers votes, to Andy Richter's arc on season 34, which not too long ago got here to an finish. "He's charming and has such a giant coronary heart. Do I believe he's going to win? No. Do I believe he's bringing a top quality to the present that epitomizes what the present is? Completely. However Bobby Bones was the primary time it was like, 'Ouch.' No disrespect to Bobby. He would most likely say the identical factor."

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"I'm like, 'Oh my god.' it damage my emotions a lot. I’ve a job the place I give opinions on a regular basis," the host of the nationally syndicated Bobby Bones Present defined. "Each time I create controversy, which I do at instances — typically manufactured, typically not — I'm good as a result of I do know I've signed up for this. When he did that, it damage my emotions, as a result of that was any individual [who] was so useful to me throughout the present, as a result of he knew I used to be struggling."

Bones mirrored that he was "made to really feel I used to be actually dangerous at dancing," despite the fact that he has "by no means been extra dedicated to something besides my spouse." As for the returned trophy, "Somebody has reached out to me from the community, they usually mentioned they’d give it again. It's no matter I would like," Bones shared.

After listening to of Bones' response to his feedback, Bergeron appealed to him straight by way of textual content, sharing a screenshot of their dialog on Instagram, which noticed the TV star clarify, "It wasn't my intention to harm your emotions. My 'ouch' was based mostly on my trustworthy feeling that your win spoke to a necessity to handle the steadiness between decide and viewer voting."

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Richter did chart an identical course to Bones, persistently pulling decrease scores than a lot of his opponents, however sustaining a stable place within the advancing competitors on account of sturdy fan help. However on the eve of the semifinals, Richter was despatched packing.

Reasonably than mourn his personal loss, the comic and longtime late-night sidekick informed Leisure Weekly threw his help behind the contestant that adopted him within the elimination sample: Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Whitney Leavitt.

"I believe Whitney going dwelling, to me it's completely insane. I imply, she's an incredible dancer," he mentioned. "And if all of the sticklers who have been livid about me nonetheless being in it, who have been demanding excellent technical dancing, I don't know why she would get despatched dwelling beneath that criterion."

You may watch Bones' full feedback on the Bobbycast podcast above.

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