Former ‘DWTS’ host Tom Bergeron says Sean Spicer casting ‘screwed’ him over

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Sex, Lies, and Spray Tans” podcast. “‘Don’t go there. This is, you know, not the right time, play to our strengths, be the show that gives people a break from all this bulls–t.'”The Post has reached out to Bergeron and Spicer for comment.According to Bergeron, both the showrunners and producers were determined to bring Spicer, 52, on the show.

Bergeron, who asserted that he would have said the same thing if it had been a high-profile Democrat, revealed that he offered to “take the season off” while Spicer competed for the Mirrorball trophy.

It was then the ABC executives offered to release the host from his contract. “That’s how strongly they felt,” Bergeron said, while adding that it “really pissed me off.”Furious at the broadcasting company, the former host composed and later released a rather shady statement regarding his meeting with the higher-ups.

In the statement, which was shared on his X (formerly Twitter) account before the host deactivated it, Bergeron blasted ABC for steering the show away from a “joyful respite from our exhausting political climate” free of “inevitably divisive bookings from ANY party affiliations.”According to the host, he didn’t tell ABC he was planning to release the statement because “they didn’t deserve to know.”“They had screwed me.