What\u2019s ahead and whether he would ever compete on the\nshow himself<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By Lie Shia Ong<\/em> \u201cDancing With the stars: All-Stars\u201d is going into its\nfourth week of competition, and this upcoming week promises to be an\ninteresting one with couples performing a dance selected for them by their\npeers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to that new rule change, a celebrity guest judge will be joining regular judges Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli on Monday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n MSN TV spoke with Tom Bergeron, the Emmy-winning host of the show, about what\u2019s to come and also about the other show he hosts and the milestone it\u2019s about to celebrate next month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n MSN TV: Congratulations\non your recent Emmy win.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Tom Bergeron: Thank you very much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Did you do\nanything to celebrate?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Well, my wife and I met up with some of the gang from the\nshow outside the Nokia, one of the restaurant-bars, but I had to make a reasonably\nearly night of it because we had the premiere of the all-star season the very\nnext day, and there\u2019s nothing worse than a hungover live-TV host.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The competition\nhas really been elevated this season. What have you enjoyed most about watching\nthe all-stars compete?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n That very thing. This past week was a really good example of what these people bring to the part. It was Week 3 and as I said on the show, it\u2019s more like a finals. I mean, you watch the quality of the dancing and the inventiveness of the productions, but it makes an even tougher situation on Tuesday nights when we eliminate a couple, because you\u2019re looking at such a high standard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What are your\nthoughts about the eliminations so far? There have been a couple of surprising\nones, wouldn\u2019t you say?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Yeah. Absolutely. This past week in particular was surprising\nbecause we said goodbye to two former champions [Drew Lachey and Helio\nCastroneves]. People who won their seasons gone in Week 3 was certainly a\nsurprise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There have been some\ntwists and rule changes that have been put into place this season. Do you know\nof any more that you can tease ahead to?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I do know of others that I cannot tell you about, but\ngood try. Of course, we\u2019ll see how the picking dance style for the other couples\nplays out Monday when Paula [Abdul] joins us as a guest judge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n How do you think\nthat will turn out? She\u2019s been a judge on \u201cAmerican Idol\u201d and on \u201cThe X Factor.\u201d\nHow do you think the transition will be for her coming to ABC for this show?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I don\u2019t know. With Paula you never know, and that\u2019s one\nof the really exciting things about having her come on board for a week. She\nwas my neighbor. When she was doing \u201cAmerican Idol,\u201d we shot on opposite\nstages, so her dressing room was right across the hall from mine. We have a\nlong history of giving each other a hard time, which she has promised publicly\nto continue on the show Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Some of your fans\nsent in questions they wanted me to ask. Tim wants to know: Do you come up with\nyour own material, or do you have a writing staff?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n No. I mostly ad-lib everything you hear. What is scripted\non \u201cDancing\u201d is the stuff that takes us to a commercial and brings us back\u2014things\nof that nature. But my reactions to what\u2019s going on in the moment are all my\nreactions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On that note, Karen\nwanted to know if you have any tips on ad-libbing because you\u2019re such a master\nat saying things that are right in the moment.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Thank you. I think listening is key. Look, even I screw up. We tried something new on Tuesday to kind of give different pacing to the who\u2019s in jeopardy and who\u2019s safe. So instead of reading off a card I was just kind of paraphrasing things in my mind, and I wanted to paraphrase a quote from Carrie Ann to talk to the next couple, and as I was thinking of that as I was going to toss to Brooke [Burke], and so I called Brooke Carrie Ann, so there you go! [Laughs] So to the best of us these moments happen, but I think being present is key and listening. It\u2019s sort of like acting. Either you act or react, and I think that\u2019s important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lyly wants to\nknow: You\u2019ve been the host of the show since the beginning. Would you ever\nconsider competing yourself?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n No. Way too much work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Are you naturally\na good dancer, Tom?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I can be taught. I think if I were to compete, I have enough\nof an ego to think I could last maybe three or four weeks, but I certainly don\u2019t\nthink I have a chance at winning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Terry wanted to know how you got into hosting.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I was introduced to radio by a public speaking teacher when I was in high school who worked at the local radio station in my hometown who introduced me to the station manager. So, I was a senior in high school when I got my first radio gig.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAmerica\u2019s\nFunniest Home Videos,\u201d the other show you host, is celebrating quite the\nmilestone next month: A record-setting 500 episodes. Is there anything special\nplanned?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Yes, I believe as luck would have it\u2014as luck and\nquestionable math would have it\u2014that show will also feature our 1 millionth groin\nhit, and at that moment that that milestone video is rolled into the show, we\u2019ve\ngot the confetti cannons. We\u2019ve got, I think a former Miss World. We\u2019ve got a\ntrophy presentation. We\u2019re gonna do it up!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Since you are the host of the show, are you allowed to say who you would pick as the winner of this all-star season?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Yes, I am allowed to say that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Who would your choice\nbe if you had to pick right now?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2026but I choose not to say that!<\/p>\n\n\n\n I knew you were\ngoing to say something like that!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [Laughs].<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDancing with the\nStars: All-Stars\u201d airs Mondays and Tuesday nights on ABC.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What\u2019s ahead and whether he would ever compete on the show himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-msn-entertainment","category-portfolio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":864,"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions\/864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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