Bobby Bones says he and Tom Bergeron have buried the feud that started with a blunt comment about his win on Dancing With the Stars. Six years after Bones took home the Mirrorball trophy with Sharna Burgess in season 27, he said Bergeron apologized during a March appearance on his podcast, and the two are “great again.”

Bones, 46, said he also wants his trophy back. He mailed the Mirrorball to ABC in November 2025 after saying he was hurt by Bergeron’s public surprise over his 2018 victory, and told listeners, “It’d be nice if I could get my Dancing With the Stars trophy back.”

The exchange traces back to Bergeron’s remark to Parade that he was shocked Bones won. Bones answered in a later TikTok video that the comment stung. He said on the air that he never set out to compete for the title, only to appear on the show while working on another network project, and that he gave it everything he had.

“I didn’t even wanna be on the show,” Bones said. “I had no intention of being on Dancing with the Stars. I was working on a different show at the network, they asked me to go on the show to promote. Am I supposed to not show up and work hard? Am I supposed to not give it freaking everything that I have? Am I supposed to, like, throw it and not win?”

He said the feud hardened after Bergeron’s comment and after he decided to send the trophy back. “Like, what did I do? I had a great attitude. I worked hard, and here we are, like six years later, I’m still catching strays out of nowhere. So, I sent the trophy back. They don’t want me to be a part of the show, obviously. So I don’t wanna be somewhere that doesn’t want me to be there,” he said.

Bergeron later told Bones he regretted the way he framed his reaction. “I felt terrible that the way I phrased my honest surprise at your win,” Bergeron said, adding that he should have said, “Well, this wasn’t a shock, but it was a surprise when Bobby Bones won.”

Bones said the apology came after he noticed Bergeron had sent him a direct message while he was a guest on Kaitlyn Bristowe’s Off the Vine podcast. Bergeron then appeared on Bones’ show, and the two worked it out. “He came on, and the first thing that I said was, ‘Hey, man, why do you hate me now?’” Bones said. “And I think just saying that early kind of made us both go like, ‘OK, we’re good.’”

He said the conversation ended with both men emotional and relieved. “We talked it out,” Bones said. “He apologized, and then I apologized for making him apologize. We cried. It was really great.” Bones, who hosts The Bobby Bones Show on iHeartRadio, also said his podcast, Bobby Bones Presents: The BOBBYCAST, is now airing on Netflix. For now, the only unresolved detail is the trophy itself: Bones said he does not know where it ended up, but wants it mailed back.