Andy Cohen once described the Real Housewives franchise as “guilt free gossiping,” and now he, NBCUniversal, Warner Bros Discovery and others are denying any guilt in the workplace discrimination and retaliation claims from RHONY vet Leah McSweeney.
10.05.2024 - 01:23 / deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: Less than a week before NBCUniversal’s big pitch to advertisers in the Big Apple, Andy Cohen the jewel in the media giant’s Reality TV crown isn’t shinning so bright after all.
Despite Bravo’s insistence that an investigation by an outside party has cleared the Real Housewives franchise boss of “unsubstantiated” allegations of cocaine use, alcohol abuse, and sexual harassment, attorneys for Leah McSweeney and Brandi Glanville say it’s all a sham.
“This is perfect timing,” McSweeney’s lawyer Gary Adelman told Deadline Thursday after Bravo put out a statement calling their Cohen probe “completed” and done. “One line so they can repeat it to all the advertisers at the Up Fronts.”
“How do you have an investigation without speaking with to anyone?” McSweeney’s main lawyer added, declaring that their client was never interviewed by the outside investigation law firm. “Our opinion is that no one is going to believe this was a real investigation.”
“I am looking forward to reviewing the details of report from the ‘independent’ investigation,” Glanville’s attorney Bryan Freedman declared. “Since there was no finding of wrongdoing, there, of course, would be no need to hide or otherwise bury the findings.”
“NBC did not speak with the complaining witnesses,” Freedman said also of his client. “How is that an investigation?” Writing to NBCU and Warner Bros Discovery brass on February 22, Glanville claimed she was sexual harassed by a video from Watch What Happens Live! host Cohen in 2022 telling Glanville that he, an openly gay man, wanted her to watch him have sex with “another Bravo star that night” and more. Later that day Cohen said the video with he and Kate Chastain was meant as a “joke” but still “totally
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Andy Cohen cheered on John Mayer when the musician sent a letter to The Hollywood Reporter about their line of questioning to Cohen about their friendship.“I will tell you someone who I am not with. Who — between he or I we are constantly having to clarify our relationship and that is John Mayer,” Cohen, 55, said on Friday’s episode of his “Daddy Diaries” podcast.“And in this interview — I’m on the cover of The Hollywood Reporter — and the interviewer said, ‘You know, your friendship with John.
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Andy Cohen’s viral interview about his friendship with John Mayer, the musician has weighed in on the discourse himself.The “Slow Dancing in a Burning Room” hitmaker, 46, has long been friends with the Bravo honcho, who is openly gay, but their friendship prompted much speculation in recent years.Now, the singer has chimed in to set the record straight on the nature of their friendship and slammed The Hollywood Reporter for posing the “deeply flawed” question.Addressing the publication’s co-editor-in-chief Maer Roshan, who conducted the interview with Cohen, Mayer criticized Roshan for bringing up the question in the first place.“I read your interview with Andy Cohen, and was intrigued by your line of questioning regarding our friendship,” the guitarist began.“You posited that ‘your friendship with Mayer has been a subject of intense speculation. People seem dubious that a straight rock star can have a close platonic relationship with a gay TV personality.’ I think this is somewhat of a specious premise.”“First, there is a long and storied history of “rock stars” (not mocking, just won’t refer to myself as one) befriending gay icons and artists,” he continued.“Second, I think that to suggest that people are dubious of a friendship like mine and Andy’s is to undermine the public’s ability to accept and understand diversity in all facets of culture, be it in art or in real life.”Mayer said he hopes the public is “sophisticated enough” to accept the fact that the pair’s friendship is strictly platonic.“That turns the concept of being gay into an ignorantly two-dimensional one, which I know you know it’s not.
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Hollywood Reporter in an interview published Wednesday. “I honestly love John Mayer, and he loves me,” Cohen continued. “But because we’re so affectionate toward each other, people don’t know what box to put that in.
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