“You’re following Tom Bergeron, the best host on television, right?” Ribeiro explained. “You don’t have a co-partner, you don’t have anyone to bounce off of. It’s just you, which makes it about just you, right? Just by default.”
On top of the social distance mandates due to the COVID pandemic, Ribeiro emphasized just how difficult Banks’ years on DWTS had to be.
“Everything about her first two seasons was a setup for failure,” he continued. “Not that it was a failure, because the show still did well. But I feel like for the audience, they didn’t get to see what it felt like before because the setup was completely different.”
But despite Banks’ exit after just one year of sharing the screen with him, Ribeiro assured there is no bad blood between him and the 51-year-old.
