Jimmy Kimmel offered up an empty apology to Bristol Palin after describing her as “bold” for coming on his show after her elimination from Dancing With The Stars.

Palin jigged on stage in a fair approximation of her dancing prowess exhibited on DWTS alongside partner Mark Ballas, before planting her recently expelled kaboosh on the Jimmy Kimmel Live sofa. And it wasn’t long before the host addressed any possible causes of tension between the pair, by bringing his constant mockery of her mother to the table. “I appreciate you coming,” he said to Palin, “Because I’ve made one or two jokes about your mother over the years.” To this, Palin repsoded with “Yes! I’m here for my apology”. Well there was an apology, but Kimmel quickly arrested the faux sense of contrition by saying that he was in fact “not sorry” but offered up opportunity for Palin “to make 48,000 jokes” about his mum to even the field. Of course, Palin has no idea who his mother is, so it’s him that’s really winning.

Palin is finally out of the Dancing With The Stars competition after receiving constantly low scores throughout the show. Her luck ran out on the most recent addition, and now she can go back to getting in the way of her mother’s political campaigns. It can’t make them any worse, that’s for sure.