Although “Dancing With the Stars ” Season 34 premieres tonight, one former show alum just shared a secret about his controversial Season 27 win: He cheated.

Radio personality Bobby Bones , who won the ABC dance competition series in 2018 with pro dancer Sharna Burgess, revealed that he may have overlooked the rules a little to snag some extra rehearsal time.

“I cheated in the way of, they give you a limited amount of time with your partner, like four hours a day, they say,” Bones revealed on the Sept. 15 episode of Jason Tartick’s " Trading Secrets " podcast. “So, we would do our full work. I would record the session and then go by myself and rent a studio myself and train myself to, illegally, like spent time over.”

Bones noted that he didn’t have an abundance of time to do this,

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