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talk-show scandals if you like this
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mojo your source for all things pop
culture celebrity and entertainment for
this list we’re taking a look at feuds
and controversies from both daytime and
late-night talk shows that either made
audiences drop their morning cup of joe
or their glass of wine number 10 the dr.
Phil drug scandal in 2017 this
long-running television program came
under fire after former survivor
contestant Todd Hertzog accused the
producers of enabling his drug and
alcohol addiction in order to generate
views in his now infamous appearance in
2013 Herzog was so drunk he could barely
stand indicating to viewers that his
condition had led him to an all-time low
like a liter of vodka however according
to Herzog he was coerced by staff into
drinking two bottles of vodka and given
xanax to quote calm his nerves before
filming the dr. Phil show has vehemently
denied these claims however an expose
published in 2017 by the stat and the
Boston Globe exhibited multiple victims
making similar claims against the
production number nine Rosie O’Donnell
vs. Elisabeth Hasselbeck the view can
sometimes feel like a daytime soap opera
of all the scandals this talk-show has
endured over the years the feud between
co-host Rosie O’Donnell and Elisabeth
Hasselbeck was perhaps the most
notorious the tension between the two
reached its boiling point in 2007 when
Hasselbeck referred to Iraq as quote
America’s enemy prompting o’donnell to
argue that the Bush administration was
truly at fault
you just said our enemies in Iraq did
Iraq attack us the liberal O’Donnell
additionally criticized the media for
their unflattering portrayal of her
claiming that they favored the
conservative Hasselbeck Rosie
big fat lesbian loud Rosie attacks
innocent pure Christian Elizabeth
following their heated argument
o’donnell left the show while Hasselbeck
exited five years later number 8 alec
baldwin’s Geisler although alec baldwin
is one of the most outspoken liberals
and showbiz his behavior hasn’t always
lived up to his professed ideals in 2013
the oscar-nominated actor landed in hot
water when he allegedly directed a gay
slur at a paparazzo in due course
Baldwin was suspended from his
late-night talk show for two weeks while
Baldwin initially claimed he was
misquoted he ultimately described his
outburst in an apology as quote
offensive and unacceptable however the
damage was done as up late with Alec
Baldwin was cancelled after only five
episodes it probably didn’t help that
Baldwin also made homophobic remarks
towards reporter George stark on Twitter
number 7 Maury Povich is sexual
harassment lawsuit Maury Povich is no
stranger to controversy as many critics
have accused his tabloid talk show of
exploiting serious issues
speaking of exploitation a 100
million-dollar sex harassment lawsuit
was filed against Povich and other
members of a staff in 2006 the
allegations stemmed from Bianca Nardi a
former producer of the Maury Povich Show
who claimed that the host and his
workers had forced her to watch
pornography and attempt to seduce
married men at bars while being filmed
she additionally accused executive
producer Paul fall haver of making her
wear revealing outfits and implied that
Povich was having an affair with
producer Dona Ingmar despite this
scandal Povich remains on television and
is still married to Connie Chung number
6 Billy Bush fired from today just when
it seemed like the 2016 US presidential
election couldn’t get any crazier a 2005
hot mic recording surfaced in which
Republican candidate Donald Trump shared
an offensive and potentially
incriminating conversation with Access
Hollywood host Billy Bush
on a bus ride Trump not only admitted
that he tried and failed to seduce Nancy
O’Dell
but also made some vulgar statements
while discussing actress
Arianne Zucker the scandal took a
drastic toll on Bush’s public image
resulting in his termination from the
Today Show meanwhile Trump continued his
campaign and was elected president
almost a month later you don’t get to
say that because I was there in the last
14 months of my life I have been dealing
with it you dealt with it for 14 minutes
and went on to be the president number 5
blackmail attempt against David
Letterman after a long hard day
audiences would typically tune into Late
Show with David Letterman for a
light-hearted laugh the talk show took
an uncomfortable turn in 2009 though
when Letterman confessed to having
several sexual relationships with his
female staffers an extortionist had
targeted Letterman threatening to write
a screenplay about the television hosts
affairs unless he coughed up two million
dollars and he seems to in this packet
there seems to be quite a lot of
terrible stuff he knows about
cooperating with the Manhattan district
attorney’s office
Letterman wrote a fake check and his
blackmailer was arrested shortly after
while Letterman was met with some
negative press following this shocking
announcement he eventually moved on from
the scandal and hosted Late Show for six
more years before retiring in 2015
number four Oprah Winfrey vs. James Frey
it’s a radical departure it’s not a
classic and it is also not fiction James
Frey hit the big time when his memoir a
million little pieces was selected for
Oprah’s Book Club in 2005 chronicling
fries history with alcohol and drug
abuse the book became a New York Times
bestseller and a cultural sensation if I
was gonna write a book that was true and
I was gonna write a book that was honest
and
I was gonna have to write about myself
in very very negative way many readers
felt cheated however when it was
revealed that fry had fabricated
information in his supposed true account
this didn’t reflect well on Oprah who
invited fry onto a show to talk about
the controversy Oprah didn’t let fry off
with a slap on the wrist eventually
getting him to confess that he had made
up parts of the story she also brought
on publisher nan talese to set the
record straight
number three Conan O’Brien vs. Jay Leno
the original war for late night can be
traced back to 1992 when Jay Leno became
Johnny Carson’s successor over David
Letterman this influenced Letterman to
move from NBC to CBS while Conan O’Brien
was hired to fill the NBC late-night
time slot history essentially repeated
itself almost two decades later when
Leno exited The Tonight Show so O’Brien
could assume his hosting duties
unfortunately O’Brien’s ratings
struggled and the decision to give Leno
a primetime talk show turned out to be a
huge miscalculation since pushing back
the schedule wasn’t an option
O’Brien was given a 45 million dollar
payout while Leno returned to the
Tonight Show in 2010 number 2 Jenny
Jones guest gets murdered the Jenny
Jones Show aired for over a decade but
it’s actually best remembered for an
episode that never even aired entitled
same-sex secret crushes the episode
centered on a guest named Scott Amador
who on the show revealed his crush to an
acquaintance named Jonathan Schmitz
three days after the episode was taped
Schmitz reportedly found a suggestive
note from Amador Schmidt subsequently
purchased a shotgun shot amador two
times in the chest and alerted the
authorities of the crime he had just
committed having a history of mental
illness
Schmitz was convicted of second-degree
murder meanwhile the Jenny Jones Show
faced a wrongful death lawsuit and was
forced to pay Amador’s family 25 million
dollars before we get to our top pick
here are some honorable or in this case
dishonorable mentions
how should we pay them back
you came to God the way over and kill
everyone in China kill everyone in China
idea number one Matt Lauer’s sexual
misconduct allegations in rapid
succession from Bill O’Reilly to Charlie
Rose media personalities were publicly
accused of sexual harassment in 2017
have you done some soul-searching have
you have you done some self-reflection
and have you looked at the way you
treated women that you think now or
think about differently now than you did
at the time however the sexual
misconduct allegations directed at Matt
Lauer shocked audiences perhaps the most
a staple of the Today Show for almost 20
years
flower was abruptly fired after a female
NBC employee accused him of sexually
harassing her three years earlier you
know for the moment all we can say is
that we are heartbroken it became clear
that this was unlikely to be an isolated
incident as more women came forward in
one instance flower was accused of
summoning a former employee to his
office and sexually assaulting her
behind a locked door the fact that Lauer
was such a beloved host only made this
more disturbing do you agree with our
picks check out these other great clips
from WatchMojo and subscribe for new
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talking welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re counting down our picks for
the top ten
talk-show scandals if you like this
video then you’ll love the original
content over at our sister channel ms
mojo your source for all things pop
culture celebrity and entertainment for
this list we’re taking a look at feuds
and controversies from both daytime and
late-night talk shows that either made
audiences drop their morning cup of joe
or their glass of wine number 10 the dr.
Phil drug scandal in 2017 this
long-running television program came
under fire after former survivor
contestant Todd Hertzog accused the
producers of enabling his drug and
alcohol addiction in order to generate
views in his now infamous appearance in
2013 Herzog was so drunk he could barely
stand indicating to viewers that his
condition had led him to an all-time low
like a liter of vodka however according
to Herzog he was coerced by staff into
drinking two bottles of vodka and given
xanax to quote calm his nerves before
filming the dr. Phil show has vehemently
denied these claims however an expose
published in 2017 by the stat and the
Boston Globe exhibited multiple victims
making similar claims against the
production number nine Rosie O’Donnell
vs. Elisabeth Hasselbeck the view can
sometimes feel like a daytime soap opera
of all the scandals this talk-show has
endured over the years the feud between
co-host Rosie O’Donnell and Elisabeth
Hasselbeck was perhaps the most
notorious the tension between the two
reached its boiling point in 2007 when
Hasselbeck referred to Iraq as quote
America’s enemy prompting o’donnell to
argue that the Bush administration was
truly at fault
you just said our enemies in Iraq did
Iraq attack us the liberal O’Donnell
additionally criticized the media for
their unflattering portrayal of her
claiming that they favored the
conservative Hasselbeck Rosie
big fat lesbian loud Rosie attacks
innocent pure Christian Elizabeth
following their heated argument
o’donnell left the show while Hasselbeck
exited five years later number 8 alec
baldwin’s Geisler although alec baldwin
is one of the most outspoken liberals
and showbiz his behavior hasn’t always
lived up to his professed ideals in 2013
the oscar-nominated actor landed in hot
water when he allegedly directed a gay
slur at a paparazzo in due course
Baldwin was suspended from his
late-night talk show for two weeks while
Baldwin initially claimed he was
misquoted he ultimately described his
outburst in an apology as quote
offensive and unacceptable however the
damage was done as up late with Alec
Baldwin was cancelled after only five
episodes it probably didn’t help that
Baldwin also made homophobic remarks
towards reporter George stark on Twitter
number 7 Maury Povich is sexual
harassment lawsuit Maury Povich is no
stranger to controversy as many critics
have accused his tabloid talk show of
exploiting serious issues
speaking of exploitation a 100
million-dollar sex harassment lawsuit
was filed against Povich and other
members of a staff in 2006 the
allegations stemmed from Bianca Nardi a
former producer of the Maury Povich Show
who claimed that the host and his
workers had forced her to watch
pornography and attempt to seduce
married men at bars while being filmed
she additionally accused executive
producer Paul fall haver of making her
wear revealing outfits and implied that
Povich was having an affair with
producer Dona Ingmar despite this
scandal Povich remains on television and
is still married to Connie Chung number
6 Billy Bush fired from today just when
it seemed like the 2016 US presidential
election couldn’t get any crazier a 2005
hot mic recording surfaced in which
Republican candidate Donald Trump shared
an offensive and potentially
incriminating conversation with Access
Hollywood host Billy Bush
on a bus ride Trump not only admitted
that he tried and failed to seduce Nancy
O’Dell
but also made some vulgar statements
while discussing actress
Arianne Zucker the scandal took a
drastic toll on Bush’s public image
resulting in his termination from the
Today Show meanwhile Trump continued his
campaign and was elected president
almost a month later you don’t get to
say that because I was there in the last
14 months of my life I have been dealing
with it you dealt with it for 14 minutes
and went on to be the president number 5
blackmail attempt against David
Letterman after a long hard day
audiences would typically tune into Late
Show with David Letterman for a
light-hearted laugh the talk show took
an uncomfortable turn in 2009 though
when Letterman confessed to having
several sexual relationships with his
female staffers an extortionist had
targeted Letterman threatening to write
a screenplay about the television hosts
affairs unless he coughed up two million
dollars and he seems to in this packet
there seems to be quite a lot of
terrible stuff he knows about
cooperating with the Manhattan district
attorney’s office
Letterman wrote a fake check and his
blackmailer was arrested shortly after
while Letterman was met with some
negative press following this shocking
announcement he eventually moved on from
the scandal and hosted Late Show for six
more years before retiring in 2015
number four Oprah Winfrey vs. James Frey
it’s a radical departure it’s not a
classic and it is also not fiction James
Frey hit the big time when his memoir a
million little pieces was selected for
Oprah’s Book Club in 2005 chronicling
fries history with alcohol and drug
abuse the book became a New York Times
bestseller and a cultural sensation if I
was gonna write a book that was true and
I was gonna write a book that was honest
and
I was gonna have to write about myself
in very very negative way many readers
felt cheated however when it was
revealed that fry had fabricated
information in his supposed true account
this didn’t reflect well on Oprah who
invited fry onto a show to talk about
the controversy Oprah didn’t let fry off
with a slap on the wrist eventually
getting him to confess that he had made
up parts of the story she also brought
on publisher nan talese to set the
record straight
number three Conan O’Brien vs. Jay Leno
the original war for late night can be
traced back to 1992 when Jay Leno became
Johnny Carson’s successor over David
Letterman this influenced Letterman to
move from NBC to CBS while Conan O’Brien
was hired to fill the NBC late-night
time slot history essentially repeated
itself almost two decades later when
Leno exited The Tonight Show so O’Brien
could assume his hosting duties
unfortunately O’Brien’s ratings
struggled and the decision to give Leno
a primetime talk show turned out to be a
huge miscalculation since pushing back
the schedule wasn’t an option
O’Brien was given a 45 million dollar
payout while Leno returned to the
Tonight Show in 2010 number 2 Jenny
Jones guest gets murdered the Jenny
Jones Show aired for over a decade but
it’s actually best remembered for an
episode that never even aired entitled
same-sex secret crushes the episode
centered on a guest named Scott Amador
who on the show revealed his crush to an
acquaintance named Jonathan Schmitz
three days after the episode was taped
Schmitz reportedly found a suggestive
note from Amador Schmidt subsequently
purchased a shotgun shot amador two
times in the chest and alerted the
authorities of the crime he had just
committed having a history of mental
illness
Schmitz was convicted of second-degree
murder meanwhile the Jenny Jones Show
faced a wrongful death lawsuit and was
forced to pay Amador’s family 25 million
dollars before we get to our top pick
here are some honorable or in this case
dishonorable mentions
how should we pay them back
you came to God the way over and kill
everyone in China kill everyone in China
idea number one Matt Lauer’s sexual
misconduct allegations in rapid
succession from Bill O’Reilly to Charlie
Rose media personalities were publicly
accused of sexual harassment in 2017
have you done some soul-searching have
you have you done some self-reflection
and have you looked at the way you
treated women that you think now or
think about differently now than you did
at the time however the sexual
misconduct allegations directed at Matt
Lauer shocked audiences perhaps the most
a staple of the Today Show for almost 20
years
flower was abruptly fired after a female
NBC employee accused him of sexually
harassing her three years earlier you
know for the moment all we can say is
that we are heartbroken it became clear
that this was unlikely to be an isolated
incident as more women came forward in
one instance flower was accused of
summoning a former employee to his
office and sexually assaulting her
behind a locked door the fact that Lauer
was such a beloved host only made this
more disturbing do you agree with our
picks check out these other great clips
from WatchMojo and subscribe for new
videos every day
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