At least 3 powerful members of the Team USA gymnastics board of directors have resigned … just days after Aly Raisman BLASTED the organization for its role in the Dr. Nassar sexual assault scandal. Board of Directors executive leadership…
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Monday, January 22, 2018
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
NBC Execs Meeting with Staff from News Shows to Discuss Lauer Firing
NBC is scrambling to meet with talent and production staff from its news shows to go over various issues related to Matt Lauer’s firing. We’re told Noah Oppenheim, President of NBC News, will be leading the meetings. Our NBC sources say Oppenheim…
Friday, October 13, 2017
Terry Crews" Wife Says Hollywood Execs Find Loopholes to Dodge the Law
Terry Crews’ wife, Rebecca, witnessed a high-level Hollywood exec reach down and grab Terry’s genitals last year — but she has little hope anything will be done about it. We got Rebecca King-Crews at LAX, and she recalled the sexual battery…
Monday, October 9, 2017
Harvey Weinstein Begged Hollywood Execs to Save His Job
Harvey Weinstein made a failed attempt to save his job in the 11th hour, firing off an email to other studio execs and asking them to back him in his time of need. Weinstein’s email said, “My board is thinking of firing me. All I’m asking, is let me…
Harvey Weinstein Begged Hollywood Execs to Save His Job
Harvey Weinstein made a failed attempt to save his job in the 11th hour, firing off an email to other studio execs and asking them to back him in his time of need. Weinstein’s email said, “My board is thinking of firing me. All I’m asking, is let me…
Friday, April 7, 2017
Google Exec"s Killer Alix Tichelman Ordered Deported to Canada
The prostitute dubbed the “Harbor Hooker” — convicted in the killing of a Google executive — has reportedly been ordered deported back to Canada. Alix Tichelman completed her jail sentence March 29 but that morning she was handed over to…
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
"America"s Got Talent" Execs Won"t Hold Nick Cannon To Contract
“America’s Got Talent” execs desperately want to keep Nick Cannon … but if he really wants to walk, they likely won’t hold him to his contract. Production sources with knowledge of the situation tell us the show fires up next month, but…
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
Malia Obama Is Pitching Scripts to Execs at Weinstein
Malia Obama already has one hell of an entry level job as the Weinstein Company’s newest intern — she’s picking and choosing scripts to pitch to execs … TMZ has learned. Our Weinstein sources tell us Malia started work Monday and she’s…
Monday, November 21, 2016
Donald Trump -- Meeting with TV News Execs ... Olive Branch or "I Told Ya So"
Donald Trump is meeting with his harshest critics Monday and the people who arguably got him elected … the media. Sources in Trump’s camp tell us … he’s meeting with all the network heads Monday at 1 PM ET, and Trump will not hold back. We’re…
Donald Trump -- Meeting with TV News Execs ... Olive Branch or "I Told Ya So"
Donald Trump is meeting with his harshest critics Monday and the people who arguably got him elected … the media. Sources in Trump’s camp tell us … he’s meeting with all the network heads Monday at 1 PM ET, and Trump will not hold back. We’re…
Wednesday, October 12, 2016
Donald Trump: Did NBC Execs Try to Bury Billy Bush Tape?
Throughout his controversial run for the White House, Donald Trump has maintained an unusual relationship with NBC and its on-air talent.
Back in the early aughts, the network helped the GOP candidate maintain his household name status with The Apprentice.
But shortly after his presidential campaign kicked off in June of 2015, NBC severed ties with Trump in response to the real estate mogul’s outrageous statements about immigrants from Mexico.
It seemed as though Trump and NBC would remain at odds for the remainder of this election season, but in the past few weeks, the relationship between the real estate mogul and the struggling network took an odd turn.
First, Today anchor Matt Lauer was accused of displaying a pro-Trump bias during September’s Commander-in-Chief Forum.
Shortly thereafter, Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon was widely criticized for helping to humanize Trump in a jocular interview loaded with softball questions.
Not long after that, NBC Nightly News anchor and debate moderator Lester Holt took serious flak for allowing Trump to interrupt Hillary Clinton and generally run rough-shod over the evening’s format during the candidate’s first head-to-head debate.
Many believed that NBC was guilty of overcompensating, so as not to appear at odds with a candidate who was never expected to become a major party nominee, and whom the network butted heads with early in his primary run.
Then, last week, one of the biggest bombshells of this election year dropped in the form of footage in which Trump appears to boast about acts of sexual assault.
Once again, NBC was directly involved.
The shocking video (seen below) featured Trump bragging about groping and harassing women in a conversation with Access Hollywood host Billy Bush, while on the set of the long-running soap opera Days of Our Lives.
Days and Access are both NBC properties, and Bush was a longtime employee of the network.
The fact that the footage was released by the Washington Post (after allegedly being leaked by an Access staffer) and not by NBC has resulted in yet more criticism for a news department that’s been under fire for much of this campaign.
NBC fired Bush from the Today show yesterday, but many feel that the fact that execs knew about the footage months ago and chose not to release it will leave the network with a black eye from which it may never recover.
Now, however, there’s reason to believe that NBC had every intention of releasing the tape, but planned to do so at a later date, so as to have a greater impact on the outcome of the election.
According to TMZ, NBC execs knew about the footage for quite some time (some say for more than a decade), and as several of them are no fans of Trump’s they planned to release the video at a time when it would do the most damage to his campaign.
After the tape went public, Access Hollywood aired an edited version of the video, in which offensive comments made by Bush were cut out.
It seems there was initially a plan for Access to release the tape in its entirety, though how the show would’ve aired footage so damaging to Bush without causing irreparable harm to its own reputation remains unclear.
Interestingly, there are reports that NBC is angry that it allowed itself to be scooped with its own footage, but plans to take advantage of another opportunity to stick it to the Donald.
A former employee of the network recently confirmed the existence of footage of Trump using the “n-word” during his time on The Apprentice.
There may be significant legal hurdles, but at this point, releasing the tape would allow NBC to achieve the twin goals of restoring faith in its objectivity and hurting Trump’s chances of getting elected.
It seems that if the network has its way, there may be one more October surprise in store for Trump.
Saturday, May 14, 2016
Kelly Ripa DISSES ABC Execs: She"s Gone Rogue!
Kelly Ripa has not been shy about her displeasure with ABC’s handling of Michael Strahan’s departure from Live! With Kelly and Michael.
The network, along with her co-host, broke the news to her just minutes before making the announcement public, a move that blindsided her.
When she returned to Live! after pulling a no-show then going on a pre-planned vacation, she spoke to the audience about the importance of communication and respect in the workplace.
And then she gave a candid, tell-all interview to People magazine.
Well, it seems network producers weren’t aware that she’d be speaking out to the press.
“They had no idea she was telling her story to the cover of People until after it went to print on Monday,” a source told Radar Online.
“She has gone rogue,” adds the source.
“She doesn’t trust her bosses anymore and is taking her career into her own hands.”
So, they didn’t tell her something and she didn’t tell them something. Tit for tat, I suppose?
“She’s no longer including the network in her decisions or press,” added the source.
Strahan, on the other hand, declined the People cover, following the advice of his bosses.
In her interview, Ripa explains that the issue was complicated.
“There’s a part of me that can say, ‘Okay, I understand. This may have been an oversight,"” she said about the network’s failing to keep her apprised of Strahan’s leaving.
But she went on to reiterate her sentiments about professionalism in the workplace.
“I think that all people are deserving of fair treatment in the workplace. People deserve respect,” she affirmed. “People should be treated equally and with dignity.”
“People make mistakes, and we’re all human,” she added.
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