Jackson Olson Reacts to Being "Canceled" Over Guillermo Rodriguez Diss
Jackson Olson Reveals How Guillermo Rodriguez Reacted to His Apology (Exclusive)
Jackson Olson won’t be making another foul.
The Dancing With the Stars contestant poked fun at his struggles a week after he sparked controversy for making a jab at costar Guillermo Rodriguez’s dancing abilities, joking that getting “canceled” was just one of his woes.
In an Oct. 11 TikTok, Olson captured his pro dance partner Emma Slater leaving the rehearsal studio with her boyfriend—and fellow pro—Alan Bersten as the couple mouthed along to High School Musical 2’s song “Gotta Go My Own Way.”
The Savannah Bananas player wrote atop the clip, “When your dance partner has to leave you for her boyfriend.”
Meanwhile, he also noted his baseball team’s Oct. 11 loss to the Texas Tailgaters in the inaugural Banana Bowl championship, adding in the caption, “First I get canceled, then we lose the Banana Bowl and now this?!”
Before Slater waltzed out of the room with Bersten, Olson had written in a since-deleted comment under a video of another athlete recreating one of Rodriguez and partner Witney Carson’s dances, per Cosmopolitan, “Seriously how did you do this better than him with 2 hours of rehearsal.”
However, since making the jab at the Jimmy Kimmel Live! star, the athlete has publicly apologized.
“To G and to all of you, I am truly sorry that my comment I made the other day caused this much unnecessary negativity,” Olson wrote on TikTok Oct. 6. “I never meant for it to do that and I take full ownership and I love this guy. Now let’s do what this show is meant to be about: DANCE.”
Plus, Olson confirmed the pair have cleared the air in person.
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“I went to his trailer, we talked for 30 minutes,” Olson told E! News Oct. 6. “We’re fine. We’ve been friends through this entire journey. We’ve ranted to each other, we’ve talked to each other, and I just walked in and was like, ‘Hey I just want you to know, I meant nothing by that.’”
As for how Rodriguez responded? Olsen recalled, “He was like, ‘Dude, I know. It’s totally fine.’”
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