Sharna Burgess is setting the record straight after John Stamos‘ recent comments about Dancing With the Stars.
Stamos, 62, appeared on season 27 winner Bobby Bones‘ The Bobbycast podcast, where he shared his reasoning for declining to appear on the ABC dance competition, despite being asked to join “every single season.”
“I said, ‘Don’t ever ask me again. I’m never gonna do that show,'” the Full House alum told Bones, 46, during the July 7 episode.
“What makes that show good is people suffering and looking like fools. They’re breaking their feet, calluses,” he continued. “I don’t want that.”
Days after the interview, Burgess, 41, who was partnered with Bones when he won the Mirrorball Trophy in 2018, took to her Instagram Stories in a since-deleted video, where she explained why Stamos’ comments bothered her.
“Why do I care because I’m not on the show? Because I was on the show for 15 years,” Burgess began in a since-deleted video shared on her Instagram Story, according to EntertainmentNow. “Because the man that you’re speaking to is the man that I won with, who was the underdog, who laid it all out on the floor every time on what he did not start off being good at.”
“That is the last thing Dancing With the Stars is about,” she added.
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Bones faced backlash over his victory, with both Dancing With the Stars co-host Julianne Hough and former host Tom Bergeron publicly saying they did not think the radio DJ deserved to win. The backlash became so severe, in fact, that Bones voluntarily returned his prize to producers.
Stamos jokingly referenced that same sentiment when speaking to Bones about his win and the controversy that followed.
“You shouldn’t have won,” Stamos quipped, arguing that his Fuller House costar Juan Pablo Di Pace, who competed during the same season as Bones, “got 10s all the way across the board, and you came in and somehow won.”
Joking that the competition was “rigged, Stamos added, “I was gonna call ABC!”
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However, Bones, who reconciled with Bergeron, 71, earlier this year after receiving an apology, now takes the criticism in stride, jokingly telling Stamos, “I’m the jackass!”
“I never had a plan to do it, but ABC, because I was going on my fourth season with Idol, said you needed to do that show as promotion,” he continued, explaining that he had no dance experience before joining the series. “No one that has never danced has won, but I just kept blasting and I won.”
And that’s precisely why Bones believes Stamos would make the perfect Dancing With the Stars contestant.
“You would love it,” Bones maintained. “You would learn so much about yourself.”