'My hope is that at the end of the season, Tom looks back on this and realizes what a great example it was of being able to bring people of really diverse backgrounds together to have fun with each other.' seanspicer responds to Tom_Bergeron's statement
, who wrote on Twitter that he hoped the coming season would be "free of inevitably divisive bookings from ANY party affiliations." on Thursday, says that he hopes the show will be a "politics-free zone."
"I hope it will be a politics-free zone," he says. "My hope is that at the end of the season, Tom looks back on this and realizes what a great example it was of being able to bring people of really diverse backgrounds together to have fun with each other, engage in a real civil and respectful way, and maybe show millions of Americans how we can get back to that kind of interaction.
ABC's only statement on the matter comes from executive producer Andrew Llinares: "We’ve got a great and diverse cast. We are excited about the season." , but he now tells "I've got two business that have gotten off the ground successfully, and timing-wise, it was a great opportunity to do something completely different that I thought would be really fun," he says.
, and had friendly conversations: "I was really impressed with the caliber of people but, on a personal level, they were just really nice, good people, to a person."star Karamo Brown, who's also part of the cast, tweeted Wednesday that he was "excited to sit down with" Spicer. He later told "I'm a big believer that if you can talk to someone and meet in the middle, you can learn about each other and help each other both grow.
Spicer runs a political consulting firm that supports Republican candidates for office and is an adviser to the pro-Trump America First PAC. He says he's not restricted from political activity during his time on"I'm not going to get into contract specifics, but they're well aware of my job and what my companies do," he tells
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