Ryan Seacrest goes barefoot on ‘American Idol’: ‘I want to show them off’

Here’s a kicker.

While hosting “American Idol” Monday night, Ryan Seacrest stunned viewers arsenic he walked onstage pinch his bare feet exposed to talk pinch contestant Kyndal Inskeep, who besides performed without shoes.

The cameras zoomed successful connected Seacrest’s toes arsenic he hopped up and down pinch nan singer.

“I conscionable saw Kyndal and I thought, ‘I wonderment what that [feels like].’ I’ve ne'er hosted a show successful my bare feet,” Seacrest told Entertainment Tonight.

“I want to consciousness grounded. I want to consciousness that,” he teased, adding that he’d precocious dropped $42 connected a pedicure and wanted “to show them off. I conscionable had them done.”

Monday’s section of nan deed title show besides saw different first successful “Idol” history.

Seacrest announced that he would not beryllium reference nan voting results unrecorded owed to an “unprecedented” 10 cardinal votes being cast.

As he explained, location needed to beryllium much clip to count nan votes — thing that has ne'er occurred successful nan show’s 24-season history.

The results are group to beryllium revealed during adjacent Monday’s episode.

Meanwhile, this isn’t nan first clip Seacrest sent nan net into a frenzy successful caller days.

During nan caller “Love Is successful nan Air”-themed section of “Wheel of Fortune,” nan media mogul mentioned that he’s utilizing nan making love app Tinder.

“I emotion ‘Love Is In The Air,’” Seacrest gushed, earlier quipping, “And I’ll beryllium connected Tinder tonight, truthful I tin find it.”

While chatting pinch ET connected Monday night, Seacrest shared that his admittance garnered rather nan consequence from fans and family alike.

“Even my mom called me,” nan star, who split from exemplary Aubrey Paige two years ago, explained.

“And she said ‘What’s this Tinder thing?’ And I said, ‘What are you talking about,'” he continued. ” I’m like, ‘Mom, this is not what you should beryllium doing.’ She said, ‘I publication astir it.'”

Seacrest has hosted “American Idol” since nan show’s premiere successful 2002.