Kayla Nicole found herself back in the middle of online backlash after casually name-dropping Dancing With the Stars.
The moment came during her guest appearance on the November 25 episode of Boyfriend Material, a podcast hosted by reality TV personality Harry Jowsey.
During the conversation, Jowsey asked Nicole which television projects she’d be interested in joining. Without hesitation, she jumped in with her answer. “Dancing With the Stars,” Nicole said. “You see how quick I answered that? I’ve been thinking about it.”
She later added that she had only watched a handful of episodes from the most recent season, which wrapped earlier this month.
The clip quickly made its way to TikTok, where the response was swift and largely unsympathetic. Commenters flooded the Boyfriend Material page with dismissive reactions, questioning both the likelihood and appeal of Nicole joining the long-running ABC competition.
“ABC would never,” one user wrote, while another bluntly commented, “That’s so pathetic.” Others joked that she’d be voted off within the first week.
The online reaction comes amid a period of heightened scrutiny for Nicole, who has been facing renewed attention tied to past controversies.
First, fans interpreted Nicole’s Halloween costume as a subtle jab at her ex, Travis Kelce, and his fiancée, Taylor Swift. Nicole dressed as Toni Braxton from the singer’s “He Wasn’t Man Enough for Me” music video, which some fans saw as less than accidental. “No sneakin dissing cause it’s loud & clear,” one user commented, while others leaned into the drama.
After the tweet began circulating again, Nicole issued a public apology via Instagram Stories on November 2.
“I want to take a moment to sincerely apologize for the hurtful tweets I posted so many years ago,” she wrote. “Seeing them resurface last week has been incredibly difficult, and reading them now, I’m ashamed that I ever thought or spoke that way.”
Nicole said she deleted both the posts and her X account, adding that she takes full responsibility for the harm caused.