It’s been nearly a decade since protesters interrupted a live broadcast of Dancing With the Stars , throwing the ballroom into chaos and bringing the telecast to a halt. But the evening remains fresh in the minds of host Alfonso Ribeiro and judge Derek Hough , both of whom witnessed it live.

During Tuesday’s TVLine Spotlight conversation in New York City, I asked Ribeiro, Hough, judge Bruno Tonioli and host Julianne Hough to look back on the 20 years since their show premiered and tell us about the moments that live, rent-free, in their minds.

“I actually have a good one,” Ribeiro said, as you can see in the video below. “It’s when Ryan Lochte was on the show, and I was actually sitting in the audience and the two people came out of the audience to do something .” Related

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