Adam Carolla and Carrie Ann Inaba.Photo:getty (2)
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Adam Carollais looking back at a few of his missteps onDancing with the Stars.
On the latest episode of theSex, Lies, and Spray Tanspodcast, the radio personality, who competed on the sixth season of the ABC dance competition, recalled inadvertently calling judgeCarrie Ann Inaba"a bitch" during one of the live shows.
“Okay, so did you call Carrie Ann a bitch?” podcast host and formerDWTSproCheryl Burkeasked, as Carolla, 59, responded, “I did and I forgot I did it.”
Adam Carolla on “Dancing with the Stars”.Kelsey McNeal/Disney
Kelsey McNeal/Disney
“[The producers] told me I did and I was like, ‘I didn’t say it,’ and they were like, ‘Yeah, you said it,’” he shared. “And I was like, ‘I did?’”
When Burke asked if it was simply “a reaction from like [scoring] a five,” he clarified, “No, I called her a bitch and I didn’t have a recollection of it, which is weird.”
The radio personality shared later in the podcast that he had “no beef” with anyone including Inaba, adding, “I knew what the job was. They knew what the job was. I get it.”
Carolla, who was eliminated in the fourth week of the competition in 2008, also admitted that he shared an awkward moment with fellow contestantMarissa Jaret Winokurwhile attempting to calm her nerves.
Marissa Jaret Winokur attends Columbia Pictures And Sony Pictures Animation’s World Premiere Of “Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation” at Regency Village Theatre on June 30, 2018.Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic
Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic
The comedian recalled the actress, 50, being “a bundle of nerves” before showtime and he tried to help her with some of his own “wisdom.”
“So I walked up to her and [contestant]Penn Jillettewas standing there. He was trying to help too,” he said. “I go, ‘Look, you’re not gonna have fun out there. But you know what you’re gonna have, you’re gonna have an experience. You’re gonna have experience you couldn’t trade for anything. It’s such a crazy experience.”
He remembered telling her thatDancing with the Starsis “an experience you can’t buy” and then comparing it to childbirth.
“I said, ‘You know, childbirth, having a child, is it fun? No. Would you miss it for the world? It’s [an] experience and that’s what this is. This is childbirth, [it’s] the most important experience you’re ever gonna have’” he recalled. “And she goes, ‘I just hadovarian cancerand I can’t have kids.’”
He added: “And Penn Jillette started laughing like the insane atheists he is. Penn Jillette is like, ‘Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god.’”
He revealed that he simply uttered, ‘Ah, what?’ after theHairspray’s star personal revelation.
Elsewhere in the episode, Carolla joked that he was bummed nobody praised him for riding a unicycle during one of his dances. “The judges didn’t say anything,” he laughed. “I remember at the time going, yeah, no one said, ‘Hey, nice job on the unicycle,’ or anything.”
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source: people.com
