Disgraced talk-show host Jimmy Fallon has discovered himself a shock ally in Aussie radio persona Dave Hughes.
The host of NBC’s Tonight Show has been below fireplace since final week over claims from former staffers that he created a “toxic” and “nightmare” surroundings on the set.
This morning on 2DAY FM’s Hughesy, Ed & Erin breakfast present, Hughes instructed his co-hosts Ed Kavalee and Erin Molan that he sides with Fallon as being within the high job can put anybody below a variety of stress.
“I’m here to defend Jimmy Fallon,” Hughes stated on air. “I’ve never met Jimmy Fallon. I’ve never been invited on his show – I may never be invited on his show. But I do have some experience in being … I hosted Hughesy, We Have a Problem, which the TV show was on Channel 10 for five seasons.”
“There’s a lot of pressure when your name is on the show and it’s easy for you to snap,” he admitted. “There were moments on my show that I wasn’t happy with things that were going on behind the scenes, and I could be seen as being a diva. On this show I can be seen as a diva.
“If you’re the boss of the show – every now and then you lose the plot,” he added.
Last week, in a bombshell Rolling Stone article, two present and 14 former staff at Fallon’s The Tonight Show made bombshell claims in opposition to the comic, which Molan mentioned on air.
“They’re essentially saying … that the treatment would hinge of whether Fallon was having a Good Jimmy Day or a Bad Jimmy Day,” she stated.
“He apparently would snap and express irritation over the smallest things. His outbursts were kind of the stuff of legends, in a bad way. There were crying rooms apparently, where people went to cry.”
Fallon has since reportedly apologised to his present workers in an emergency Zoom name shortly after the damaging report got here out, by which he stated he was embarrassed and feels terrible.
“It’s embarrassing and I feel so bad,” he instructed workers, in response to Rolling Stone.
“Sorry if I embarrassed you and your family and friends … I feel so bad I can’t even tell you,” he reportedly stated on the decision, which was additionally attended by showrunner Chris Miller.
Fallon stated he didn’t imply to “create that type of atmosphere for the show.”
“I want the show to be fun, [it] should be inclusive to everybody. It should be the best show,” he added.
Fallon has hosted the NBC discuss present since 2014, broadcasting dwell from the Rockefeller Center in New York, taking up from fellow comic Jay Leno.
While the present is all enjoyable and video games when the cameras are rolling, the previous staffers instructed the Rolling Stone it was the alternative behind the scenes.
“Nobody told Jimmy ‘No’. Everybody walked on eggshells, especially showrunners,” one former worker claimed.
“You never knew which Jimmy we were going to get and when he was going to throw a hissy fit. It was like, if Jimmy is in a bad mood, everyone’s day is f***ed.”
“They are the worst bosses I’ve ever had in my life,” one other previous worker added. “They use that position of power to bully and treat the staff that way, and the network is aware of how they treat people.”
Originally revealed as Dave Hughes defends discuss present host Jimmy Fallon amid ‘toxic’ office claims
Source: www.dailytelegraph.com.au
