Derek Hough will exchange Billy Bush because the host of Additional this fall.
“The ballroom has been my stage, my house and my launchpad. Now, I’m entering into an thrilling new highlight because the host of Additional,” Hough stated in an announcement on Wednesday, August 13. “I’m actually trying ahead to collaborating with this unimaginable group, diving into this subsequent inventive chapter and connecting with followers and audiences in an entire new manner.”
The Emmy winner known as his new function “an honor” whereas expressing his enthusiasm for Additional‘s “daring, recent new period for season 32,” which premieres on September 8, “and past.” He’ll be a part of senior correspondent and weekend host Mona Kosar Abdi and longtime correspondent Terri Seymour.
Hough, 40, is finest recognized for his time on Dancing With the Stars, on which he served as a professional dancer from 2007 to 2016 earlier than changing the late Len Goodman as a choose starting in 2020.
A yet-to-be aired interview between Billy Bush and Jake Paul devolved into chaos, a number of sources completely inform Us Weekly, although it seems the pair have been merely busting one another’s chops. Bush, 53, just lately spoke with Paul, 28, over Zoom for an Additional section selling the boxer’s upcoming battle in opposition to Julio César Chávez Jr., his first […]
Hough, who just lately introduced he’s anticipating his first little one with spouse Hayley Erbert, remains to be slated to return to the judges’ panel for the ABC dance competitors collection’ upcoming thirty fourth season.
In the meantime, Bush, 53, revealed in Could that he was leaving Additional after 5 seasons to shift his focus to his “Scorching Mics” podcast.
“Additional is culturally iconic. If I had a greenback for each time somebody hollered, ‘Additional! Additional!’ to me within the airport or one thing, I’d purchase Warner Bros.,” Bush instructed listeners on the time.
“It’s been an amazing honor and privilege to entrance this present. … It’s now time to construct one thing of my very own,” he continued. “I’m endlessly grateful to the wonderful workers at Additional and the executives at Warner Bros. for this superior chapter of my life.”
Dynamic duos! It’s exhausting to think about a number of the largest TV hosts carrying on with out their beloved sidekicks. The Ellen DeGeneres Present felt proper at house when Stephen “tWitch” Boss joined in 2014 as its in-house DJ. Their on-screen bond later led to tWitch being featured as Ellen DeGeneres’ sidekick and announcer on Ellen’s Recreation of Video games, which […]
Bush stated he would keep on because the host of Additional by means of the top of its thirty first season. He joined the syndicated leisure information present in 2019.
Bush beforehand labored at Entry Hollywood and the In the present day present, however NBC fired him in 2016 after a decade-old tape of him and Donald Trump having a lewd dialog leaked on-line.
Within the 2005 audio, Trump, 79, bragged about being so well-known that he might “do something” to girls, together with grabbing them “by the p****.” Bush, who was on the set of his job at Entry Hollywood on the time, didn’t make any inappropriate feedback himself however was heard laughing with the long run president on a sizzling mic.
Trump dismissed the notorious tape as “locker room banter” and went on to win the 2016 election, whereas Bush was let go as a cohost of In the present day‘s third hour.
“Clearly I’m embarrassed and ashamed,” Bush stated in an announcement on the time. “It’s no excuse, however this occurred 11 years in the past — I used to be youthful, much less mature and acted foolishly in taking part in alongside.”
Bush later leaned into the scandal by naming his podcast “Scorching Mics.”
“A sizzling mic was the factor that led to my silencing,” he stated when the present launched in January, “and now the recent mics are the car by which I discover an genuine, actual voice.”
