Longtime “Dancing With The Stars” pro Peta Murgatroyd, who has won the show twice since signing on in season 12, just spoke out to say that she was “shocked” when she learned that Tom Bergeron had been fired last week.

Fans of the ABC reality television show were stunned when Bergeron, 65, and his cohost Erin Andrews were fired and replaced by supermodel Tyra Banks. Murgatroyd revealed to US Weekly that after the news broke, she and her fellow pros got on a Zoom call together to discuss the situation.

“To be honest, I was shocked. I was sad,” Murgatroyd said. “I was sad that chapter of the show is done and it made me emotional on the call. I was, like, ‘Oh, my God, Tom’s not going to be there anymore? Like, he is the show.’ I’m not disregarding [Erin]. She’s been incredible and an amazing host and somebody who had been through the show before with my husband, Maks. The way that she gave insight into celebrities and she could relate to them, I think really took the show to another level. But, a fresh start! Let’s see what happens.”

She went on to give her thoughts on Banks taking over as host.

“I’m sure Tyra is going to be amazing,” Murgatroyd said. “I’m excited to see what she brings to the show and an incredible name. I have met her before [when I danced] with [America’s Next Top Model winner] Nyle [DiMarco]. She came to the show with him, and she was lovely.”

“She’s a big enough name to hold the fort down by herself,” she said of Banks, adding that she would love to have Bergeron return to the show as a contestant and be her dance partner if he wants.

Later in the interview, Murgatroyd talked about what she’s heard about how the show will go when it returns in the fall.

“I’ve been told that it’s going to be very, very strict. We’re going to be temperature checked every day. We’re going to get COVID tests maybe every two days or something like that,” she said. “They’re expecting us to do some sort of quarantine, not go to Vegas on a trip, not do the regular things that we might normally do. I think that it’s going to be OK. I think we need this positivity to come back into America and I think we need the show. I mean, people love it and people are at home right now, kind of doing nothing. So why not bring it back, give it a go. If we don’t succeed, we don’t succeed.”