The private Slack message arrived at 12:15 p.m., as I was toasting a year-old bagel, exhumed from my freezer: “Are you around?” It was the CEO, my direct manager. Normally she texts my phone when she wants to chat. Weird. “Yup!” I typed back. Where else would I be? I spread the last of the […]
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Good Doctor Recap: Lea Combats Cyber Terrorism — Plus, [Spoiler] Gets Fired
RELATED STORIES The Good Doctor went full-on CSI: Cyber this week — and you probably have some thoughts. In addition to the cyberattack, Monday’s Freddie Highmore-directed episode saw the departure of one of the newbies (no real surprise, given where her story left off four weeks ago) and the salvation of a fan-favorite friendship. Before […]
Royals tried to get me fired over Thatcher and Queen clash story claims Andrew Neil
“The establishment tried to destroy me, the Sunday Times, get me fired, get other people fired and so on. “Now nobody doubts that it was true,” he told hosts Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid. Neil continued: “However, what is most incredible about The Crown and this is the meeting between Margaret Thatcher and the Queen […]
Squidbillies Star Stuart Baker Fired for ‘Extremely Offensive’ Facebook Posts
RELATED STORIES Squidbillies star Stuart Baker, who voices dad Early Cuyler on the Adult Swim animated comedy, has been fired after posting a number of incendiary statements on Facebook. Baker, who goes by the stage name Unknown Hinson, called Dolly Parton a “freak titted, old Southern bimbo” and a “slut” after the country singer voiced […]
Ellen DeGeneres Show: Three Producers Fired Over Toxic Workplace Allegations
RELATED STORIES The Ellen DeGeneres Show is attempting a behind-the-scenes course correction. Three of the daytime talk show’s senior producers — executive producers Ed Glavin and Kevin Leman, as well as co-executive producer Jonathan Norman — have been fired, our sister publication Variety reports. Meanwhile, Mary Connelly, Andy Lassner and Derek Westervelt will continue to […]
Dee Nguyen Fired From MTV’s Challenge Over Offensive Tweets; Current Season Will Air as Planned
RELATED STORIES MTV has “severed ties” with The Challenge star Dee Nguyen over a pair of since-deleted tweets in which she made light of the Black Lives Matter movement and the death of George Floyd. Nguyen on Saturday tweeted, “Idk why some of u think I’m anti BLM. I’ve been saying that since the day […]
Danny Baker FIRED from BBC Radio 5 Live following royal baby tweet
In a message on Twitter, Danny shared the news, writing: “Just got fired from @bbc5live. For the record – it was red sauce. Always.” The BBC have also confirmed the news in a statement which read: “This was a serious error of judgment and goes against the values we as a station aim to embody. […]
SNL Video: Adam Sandler, Chris Rock Recall Getting Fired by NBC (in Song)
Nearly 25 years after being booted from Saturday Night Live, former cast member Adam Sandler returned to Studio 8H with a lot to get off his chest — in song, naturally. Sandler’s musical confession came during his monologue. After acknowledging his wife and kids in the audience, he said that his daughter once asked why […]
‘I’ll give all the Jews wrong meds’: Anti-Zionist tweets get Muslim doctor fired AND haunt her later
A former resident at a hospital in Ohio has been accused of fomenting hatred towards Jews and of whitewashing the Holocaust, after her tweets, in which she compared Israel to Nazi Germany, resurfaced and gained traction online. Lara Kollab, 27, a recent graduate of the Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine, was recently fired from her […]
Vape shop employee fired after INSANE anti-Trump tantrum (VIDEO)
After a video of his unhinged verbal and physical attack on a customer wearing a Trump t-shirt went viral, a clerk at an Atlanta vape store has reportedly been fired. Score one for Twitter vigilante justice? Seemingly triggered by Ian Furgeson’s pro-Donald Trump t-shirt (though we don’t know what happened before he started recording), a […]