Derek Hough will substitute Billy Bush because the host of Further this fall.
“The ballroom has been my stage, my house and my launchpad. Now, I’m moving into an thrilling new highlight because the host of Further,” Hough stated in an announcement on Wednesday, August 13. “I’m actually wanting ahead to collaborating with this unimaginable workforce, diving into this subsequent artistic chapter and connecting with followers and audiences in a complete new manner.”
The Emmy winner known as his new function “an honor” whereas expressing his enthusiasm for Further‘s “daring, contemporary 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.
Hough, who 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 Might that he was leaving Further after 5 seasons to shift his focus to his “Scorching Mics” podcast.
“Further is culturally iconic. If I had a greenback for each time somebody hollered, ‘Further! Further!’ to me within the airport or one thing, I’d purchase Warner Bros.,” Bush advised listeners on the time.
“It’s been an incredible honor and privilege to entrance this present. … It’s now time to construct one thing of my very own,” he continued. “I’m eternally grateful to the superb workers at Further and the executives at Warner Bros. for this superior chapter of my life.”
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Bush stated he would keep on because the host of Further 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 Immediately 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 ladies, 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 longer term president on a scorching mic.
Trump disregarded the notorious tape as “locker room banter” and went on to win the 2016 election, whereas Bush was let go as a cohost of Immediately‘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 scorching mic was the factor that led to my silencing,” he stated when the present launched in January, “and now the new mics are the automobile by which I discover an genuine, actual voice.”
