Former ‘Dancing with the Stars’ host Tom Bergeron has publicly admitted that the casting of “stars” like former Trump White Home Press Secretary Sean Spicer and this transfer towards extra controversial selections is one thing he fought towards.

In truth, talking on the Tv Critics Affiliation winter press tour, govt producer Deena Katz stated that this so-called “clickbait” casting is one thing they merely don’t have any selection about. They must do it.

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She argued, per Deadline, that “sadly, these days, must do some little bit of that clickbait wow that will get individuals there. However the hope is that each one of us are nice storytellers. And on the finish of the day, we’re all telling actually nice tales in all other ways on this panel.”

Talking with Selection, Katz admitted that “the nation is split, so half of the individuals might have one political view and the opposite half have the opposite. On the core of it, we at all times simply go for good, good individuals.” Polarizing selections like Spicer, although, might result in half the nation disagreeing with that final sentiment.

You’ll be able to depend former host Tom Bergeron amongst those that clearly did not like the thought of Spicer being on the present as he spoke publicly out towards that type of stunt casting.

Whereas Bergeron instructed he pushed towards any polarizing casting in a submit to then-Twitter in 2019, he additionally acknowledged producers have the facility to make “make no matter selections they really feel are in one of the best long-term pursuits of the franchise.” He added, “We are able to comply with disagree, as we do now, however in the end it is their name.”

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Katz advised reporters on the TCA on Saturday that the aim was for individuals to have the ability to overcome their perceptions and provides individuals an opportunity. “My hope is that somebody that perhaps did not like Sean Spicer due to his political affiliation, you are watching the present, and he is only a man,” she stated.

“I believe what we try to do is [show] it is greater than that, that you simply get to know these individuals and you find yourself understanding that there are individuals you actually like,” she added.

On the identical time, the present has strayed from political figures after the outsized response to Spicer’s short-lived run on the present, with fellow govt producer Conrad Inexperienced telling Selection that “persons are exhausted by politics.”

This previous season noticed the present come underneath fireplace for the casting of Adrian Peterson, who was indicted in 2014 on a felony cost — however pleaded no contest to a decreased cost of misdemeanor reckless assault — for utilizing a change to self-discipline his four-year-old son, leaving the boy with cuts throughout his physique.

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“We vetted Adrian, we met Adrian. We discovered all the pieces we would have liked to know. He went again to play within the NFL, everyone had checked out Adrian,” Katz advised Selection. “We took that as we did our due diligence. We thought he was a beautiful household man, his spouse is nice and he was an incredible soccer participant that had an incredible document.”

Inexperienced added that “lots of people make errors of their lives,” saying that the present’s producers tried to “take a broader image of the place they’re at, the place they’re now.”

The EP additionally stated that producers deliberately forged lesser-known individuals like this previous season’s social media star Harry Jowsey — who discovered controversy as a result of he stored outlasting significantly better dancers on the present — as a result of they need to introduce individuals to different sorts of celebrities than they could be conversant in.

“Our hope is you begin watching the present due to some individuals, however you find yourself staying within the present since you fall in love with others,” she defined.