Amanda Kloots is dancing through her memories. The Talk host got candid about what it was really like competing on season 30 of Dancing With the Stars in 2021, especially alongside her professional dance partner Alan Bersten . "He was very mean to me," Amanda admitted on the Boyfriend Material with Harry Jowsey podcast Nov.
19. Although she chalked it up to his Russian upbringing, explaining, "Growing up Russian, growing up in that dance atmosphere. And he did see a lot of potential in me, and he saw that we could possibly win this thing.
" Amanda added that she "got yelled at," but that she would often keep it inside because she didn't want to derail their rehearsal time if the producers wanted to do an interview about how she was feeling. "I would just keep it bottled up," she said, "and we would just be dancing, and I would just be raging inside." E! News has reached out to reps for Alan and ABC but has not heard back.
Still, the 42-year-old knows she was a positive influence on Alan, with whom she placed fourth that year, as Iman Shumpert and Daniella Karagach took home the famed mirror ball trophy . "I think Alan has grown up a lot in the last couple of years," Amanda explained. "I'm saying this, and I know that he'll agree with me: I helped him become a nicer person in teaching.
" The former Rockette—who shares son Elvis , 5, with late husband Nick Cordero —previously gave insight into her DWTS journey during a conversation with Katie Couric . "The hardest part about .