Five years after his exit from Dancing With The Stars , original host Tom Bergeron is returning as a guest judge for the show’s 20th anniversary special on Tuesday, Nov. 11.

“It feels really good,” Bergeron said Tuesday on Good Morning America about his return. “I’m really looking forward to it.”

After hosting DWTS since its launch in 2005, Bergeron exited in 2020 after being publicly critical of the show’s choice to cast then-President Donald Trump’s White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer in Season 28.

He told DWTS alum Cheryl Burke on her podcast at the time that he sat down with showrunners in 2019 and discussed potential contestants for the upcoming 28th season. At that time, he and showrunners agreed that the show would be a “wonderful escape from that divisivene

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