Brooke Burke says she wondered if her age or ethnicity led to ‘DWTS’ firing

More than a decade later, Brooke Burke still has some thoughts about her "Dancing with the Stars" exit.

The former host and Season 7 winner of the ABC reality dance competition series opened up about her firing in a Sept. 3 episode of "The Tamsen Show" podcast.

After cohosting for seven seasons from 2010 to 2013, Burke said the show's producers told her she would not return after her contract was up. After losing her job, several questions flooded her mind and Burke, who was 42 at the time, reflected on why she was let go after cohosting Seasons 10 to 17 with Tom Bergeron.

"Was it me? Nobody that loves you breaks up with you. If they really loved me, was I good enough? What kind of work was I really bringing to the ballroom? Was it my age? Are they looking for a change? Was it culture? Was it ethnicity?" she told podcast host Tamsen Fadal. "There's all kinds of things that happen."

The author and wellness expert, now 54, explained that producers told her "they wanted to make a change," but she speculated that her replacement Erin Andrews was more "relevant at the time, maybe more pressworthy"…

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