Gabby Windey finished second on Dancing With the Stars season 31, but it’s not winner Charli D’Amelio whom she holds a grudge against. Instead, it’s week 6 guest judge Michael Bublé.
Bublé, 49, appeared on the Michael Bublé Night episode midway through the season, where Windey, 34, and partner Val Chmerkovskiy danced to his 2005 single “Home.”
Windey explained why the Canadian crooner left the wrong kind of impression during a game of Cheap Shots with Cosmopolitan. The prompt was to name one male celebrity that she has worked with whom she hates, and Windey didn’t hesitate at all to throw Bublé under the bus.
“Michael Bublé,” she immediately answered in the video posted Wednesday, March 5. “He didn’t give me a perfect score on Dancing With the Stars, but he did look me up and down in my outfit, so whose side are you on?”
Bublé gave Windey and Chmerkovskiy a 9 for their rumba dance, matching the scores from judges Carrie Ann Inaba, the late Len Goodman and Derek Hough. Bruno Tonioli gave them a perfect 10.
Bublé isn’t the only celebrity to catch some heat from Windey. The former Bachelorette has made the reality TV rounds, starting as a contestant on season 26 of The Bachelor and most recently competing on season 3 of The Traitors.
Gabby Windey and Val Chmerkovsky on ‘Dancing With the Stars.’ ABC/Andrew Eccles
Windey remains in the running for the grand prize ahead of the finale, airing Thursday, March 6, night. Part of the reason she has stayed in the game so long is that, as Windey admits, she lied to everybody in the cast.
“I told everyone that I liked them,” she said. “Dylan Efron? Dead to me.”
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Similarly, she was asked which of her Traitors castmates disappointed her the most when she met them in person.
“Obviously Tom Sandoval because he’s just a disappointing person,” she said, before repeating that Efron is “dead to me.”
Her fellow Bachelor Nation stars weren’t safe, either. When asked which alum was most thirsty, she thought for a minute before settling on Matt James.
“He’s not thirsty. He’s actually very dry, like a prune,” she admitted of the season 25 Bachelor. “He’s just rude and maybe a poor excuse for a man.”
Windey went on to clarify that her opinion was “coming on the heels of the Rachael Kirkconnell drama” and that she is “a girl’s girl.”
James, 33, abruptly announced his breakup from Kirkconnell, 28, via Instagram in January 2025. Their split came on a vacation to Tokyo after an alleged argument over where to go for dinner ballooned into a larger conversation.
“We know about him now,” Windey concluded before playfully tossing the card holding the question over her shoulder.
