His personal set of questions. Artem Chigvintsev addressed hypothesis that Tyra Banks is perhaps leaving as host of Dancing With the Stars — and the skilled dancer is simply as in the dead of night as followers are.
“So far as the present goes, the one info we obtained of it’s we’re going to be on a distinct platform, however so far as like, who’s going to be a part of it and even ourselves as dancers, I’m undecided,” Chigvintsev, 39, solely informed Us Weekly on the DIRECTV House at Neon Carnival on Saturday, April 16.
The Russia native famous that choices associated to the following season ought to be made public by August. “I really feel like there’s a variety of time forward of us proper now. So, we haven’t bought any info on that,” he added. “We’re undoubtedly not the primary folks to search out out what’s occurring.”
Artem Chigvintsev and Tyra Banks. ABC/Maarten de Boer; ABC/Laretta Houston
DWTS viewers questioned whether or not Banks, 48, can be returning to the dancing competitors collection amid its transfer from ABC to Disney+. The streamer has but to substantiate who can be internet hosting season 31 of Dancing With the Stars.
The California native beforehand joined as host in 2020. Her arrival got here after Tom Bergeron and his cohost, Erin Andrews, have been let go from the present. Bergeron, 66, was the host for 28 seasons and Andrews, 43, appeared in 2014 after competing as a contestant.
On the time, the sportscaster admitted that it was a “tremendous large bummer” to study of her departure.
“I didn’t have a lot time to cope with it. I bought a telephone name — we have been on the placing inexperienced with my canine and my husband — and I bought a name that stated, ‘, so-and-so from ABC needs to speak to you,’ and I used to be like, ‘Oh, s–t,’ like, that is it,” she recalled on the “Token CEO” podcast in July 2020. “I felt sorry for myself, and I sort of was like, ‘It is a horrible time to lose my job,’ as a result of we don’t know when stay tv is coming again. These are arduous jobs to get.”
Bergeron, for his half, later defined that he anticipated to half methods with DWTS forward of his firing.
“In all candor, the present that I left was not the present that I liked,” he stated on an episode of the “Bob Saget’s Right here for You” podcast in October 2021. “So, the tip of the season that turned out to be my final season [in 2019], I sort of knew. So I took the whole lot out of my dressing room that I actually needed. … It was sort of apparent that we have been sort of butting heads.”
Earlier this month, Banks made headlines when Brooke Burke claimed that the mannequin was “a diva” behind the scenes. “There’s nothing unsuitable with that, and I’m not saying something dangerous about her. Be a diva,” Burke, 50, stated on the “Behind the Velvet Rope” podcast on Wednesday, April 13. “It’s [just] not the place to be a diva. Your execs are the diva[s], your winners, your excellent 10 rating dancer who’s by no means achieved it — that defines diva within the ballroom.”
The health guru additionally mirrored on Banks’ “robust transition” to DWTS. “Change is tough for everybody. They’ve gone via lots on that present, that’s for positive,” Burke added. “You’re simply not the star because the host. It’s simply not about you because the host, proper? So, yeah, I believe Tyra is nice in a shining position. I’ll simply say that.”
With reporting by Diana Cooper
