Bobby Bones has been reunited with his Dancing With the Stars mirrorball trophy.
“Look what just came in the mail,” Bones, 46, wrote via Instagram on Thursday, August 6, sharing a pic of the DJ sitting on a couch beside his hard-earned championship trophy.
Bones, who won DWTS season 27 with professional dancing partner Sharna Burgess, revealed in November 2025 that he mailed back his mirrorball to ABC after hearing former host Tom Bergeron’s comments about his victory. (Bergeron, 71, claimed in a now-viral Parade interview that he was “shocked” by Bones’ win.)
“I try not to get my feelings hurt, especially about stuff like this, but this was hurtful,” Bones said in a social media video at the time, addressing his decision to return the trophy. “And not because of what was said, but really who said it.”
He continued, “I didn’t even wanna be on the show. 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? … 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.”
Bergeron ultimately issued an apology to Bones.
“I felt terrible that the way I phrased my honest surprise at your win,” he told Bones on a March episode of the music host’s “BobbyCast” podcast. “I think the question to me was, ‘What’s the most shocking elimination?’ I couldn’t remember a shocking elimination. And I wish I had said, ‘Well, this wasn’t a shock, but it was a surprise when Bobby Bones won.’ I wasn’t the only one surprised, Bobby. But the fact that it hurt your feelings and that you sent your trophy back, I felt terrible about that.”
After clearing the air with Bergeron, Bones admitted to Us that regretted sending back the mirrorball trophy.
“It’d be nice if I could get my Dancing With the Stars trophy back,” Bones exclusively told Us in May. “I got my feelings hurt, … and so, in a haste, I sent my trophy back to somewhere at ABC. I do not know where the trophy is. I like that trophy. If anybody’s watching this that has my Mirrorball trophy, please mail it back to me. I would love to have it back.”
