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Taylor Swift is not any stranger to the Dancing With the Stars ballroom — and has even proven up to now that she will be able to take over as host on a whim.
Former DWTS host Tom Bergeron recalled the time when Swift, 33, “brilliantly” crammed in for him on the final minute throughout season 11 in 2010 for the present’s two hundredth episode after she bought 1 million copies of Converse Now.
“It was a bit as a result of they had been doing a package deal that … ended with Marie Osmond fainting and every little thing,” Begeron, 68, defined throughout Cheryl Burke’s “Intercourse, Lies and Spray Tans” podcast episode launched on Monday, October 23. (Osmond, 64, famously fainted throughout the dwell present in 2007 after performing with accomplice Jonathan Roberts.)
He continued: “So I turned to Taylor, I mentioned ‘I’m gonna do one thing, are you OK studying prompter?’ And she or he mentioned ‘Yeah,’ she was nice. … I didn’t inform anyone that I used to be gonna do it. So it got here again to me and I simply pretended to faint and Taylor took us to interrupt brilliantly, no shock.”
Bergeron mentioned Swift “was actually recreation” and “did an awesome job simply taking a curveball like that.”
“And the image you see, I believe I posted, is me giving her a thumbs up and her laughing as a result of she did it so nicely,” he mentioned. “As a result of I simply sprung it on her, like, seconds earlier than we had been coming again to air, it simply occurred to me it could be humorous if I faint too.”
Burke, 39, for her half, added that she remembers Swift being “so good.” (Swift additionally appeared on the present throughout season 9 in 2009 and season 15 in 2012 when she carried out her hit single “We Are By no means Getting Again Collectively,” from her fourth studio album, Crimson.)
Bergeron hosted the fact dancing present from its premiere till season 28 and was changed by Tyra Banks for the following season. Banks, 49, has since departed the present with Julianne Hough returning to cohost alongside Alfonso Ribeiro.
Throughout his two-part open dialog with Burke, who was a professional on the present for 26 seasons, Bergeron additionally bought candid about one of many largest errors he made whereas internet hosting.
After Simone Biles danced along with her accomplice, Sasha Farber, throughout season 24, Bergeron mentioned he “seen” she didn’t smile after listening to suggestions from the judges. Biles, 26, famously clapped again by saying “smiling doesn’t win you gold medals.”
“I used to be so correctly put in my place,” Bergeron mentioned to Burke of the notorious second.
