Amanda Kloots is speaking out about her negative experience working with Alan Bersten on Dancing With the Stars.
Amanda and Alan made it to the season finale, but placed in fourth in the end.
Amanda thinks Alan‘s attitude was because of his Russian background.
She said, “Growing up Russian, growing up in that dance atmosphere.
Amanda said, “I would just keep it bottled up and we would just be dancing, and I would just be raging inside.” Thankfully, Amanda thinks that Alan has changed his ways.
Amanda Kloots is speaking out about her bad Dancing With the Stars experience working with Alan Bersten.
Having begun her career as a dancer on Broadway and in the Rockettes, the 42-year-old co-host of The Talk participated in the ABC dancing series in 2021.
Although they advanced to the season finale, Amanda and Alan ultimately finished in fourth place. Iman Shumpert, a basketball player, took first place, followed by JoJo Siwa in second place and Peloton instructor Cody Rigsby in third.
Amanda recently shared what it was actually like to work with Alan in an interview.
Continue reading to learn more.
Amanda stated on the Boyfriend Material with Harry Jowsey podcast (via E!) that “he was very mean to me.”.
Amanda believes that Alan’s Russian heritage is the reason for his attitude. “Growing up in that dance atmosphere, growing up Russian,” she said. Additionally, he recognized my potential and the possibility that we could win this. “”.
Alan “yelled at” her, she acknowledged, but she would suppress her emotions so as not to interfere with their rehearsal time.
We would be dancing and I would be raging inside, but I would just keep it bottled up,” Amanda said. “”.
Fortunately, Amanda believes Alan has changed his ways.
In the past few years, Alan has matured significantly, in my opinion. I know he’ll agree with me when I say this: I made him a nicer person by teaching him,” she said.
