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It’s all love out and in of the ballroom. Former DWTS host Tom Bergeron is revealing his response to the present’s new co-host Alfonso Ribeiro. “I’m very excited about that,” Tom instructed HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY on the Cool Comedy Hot Cuisine tribute occasion to Bob Saget on September 22. “Between Alfonso being there and my original showrunner Conrad Green, I think the two of them together will bring that show back to the kind of feel it should.”
Tom was ousted because the host of Dancing With the Stars after 28 seasons and changed with Tyra Banks forward of season 29. Alfonso, who received DWTS season 19, joined the present as Tyra’s new co-host for season 31. Tom revealed that Alfonso known as him earlier than the co-host information went stay.
“We had a great talk about it. We really did, and he knows he has my blessing,” Tom stated. Alfonso notably took over internet hosting duties from Tom with America’s Funniest Home Videos after Tom’s retirement.
Season 31 premiered on Disney+, making it the primary sequence to air stay on the streaming service. Alfonso was proper at residence within the DWTS skybox interviewing contestants and their companions.
Tom got here along with a number of of Bob’s associates and widow Kelly Rizzo to honor the comic, who abruptly handed away in January 2022 from unintended blunt head trauma. Tom and Bob have been longtime associates.
“It means a lot to celebrate his life and the wonderful work he did with his organization [the Scleroderma Research Foundation], but also, he was a friend,” Tom instructed HollywoodLife. “We were Video brothers from another mother. This event some years ago was the first event where I tried to wear him down and get him to co-host the 25th anniversary of AFV with me, which he ultimately did. We had a wonderful time, so this has a lot of wonderful resonance for me.”
In wanting again on his reminiscences with Bob, Tom cherished the occasions when Bob was simply “being a wiseass and mensch, too. Anybody who saw his standup act and saw him on AFV or Full House would think he’s two different people, but he wasn’t. He was a well-rounded entertainer and a very sweet man.”
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