Ellen guest makes new bullying claims
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Comedian Adam Carolla has made a series of startling new claims about Ellen DeGeneres' 'notoriously hellish' former chat show. The former 'Man Show' host said staff on 'Ellen' 'were scared, real scared' during his two guest spots on the program, during a podcast appearance Tuesday.
Speaking to conservative commentator Emily Jashinsky, Carolla, 61, provided a pair of anecdotes as purported proof. The first saw Carolla recall being repeatedly reminded by a 'scared-to-death' page to avoid certain topics before going on air. The second involved a writer for the show branding his then-boss 'the worst person I've ever met.'
'I knew they were scared because it's like, I was just sitting in my dressing room and their like segment producer came in, and he went, "All right, so we went over all the stuff we're going to talk about," you know, Christmas vacation or whatever it was,' Carolla began. 'And I go, "Yeah, yeah." 'And he goes, "You're not going to talk about meat or beef or anything like that, right?" And I go, "No, I'm not. I'm just going to talk about the stuff we talked about — going on vacation at Christmas or the kids or, you know, their anecdotes."'
At the time, DeGeneres had been a devout vegan — a lifestyle she has since abandoned. 'Okay. All right. Okay. All right,' Carolla recalled the staffer saying, after making one appearance on DeGeneres's show in March 2012 and another on an undisclosed date that Daily Mail has not been able to confirm. 'And he like came back like 20 minutes later right before I went out, and he's like, "Okay, but don't talk about beef or meat or any[thing]," Carolla continued. 'I was like, "Oh, this guy's scared to death."'
Carolla then offered up another never-before-heard tale about the show that was canned after allegations of toxicity from its longtime host surfaced in 2022. 'Later on, I talked to someone who signed an NDA, so I won't say his name, but he wrote for Ellen,' Carolla explained. 'I just went, "How's Ellen?" 'And he said, "Worst person, uh, worst person. Not worst person I've worked for. Worst person I've ever met,"' the comic recalled.
Carolla — who hosted 'The Man Show' with Ellen's former ABC colleague Jimmy Kimmel in the early 2000s — then revealed the staffer had also worked for Rosie O'Donnell's daytime show during the 90s and was still adamant his then-boss was the worst of the bunch. '[This was] when Rosie was the Official Chub Club,' Carolla pointed out, referring to the title of a book O'Donnell wrote the foreword for in 1999, titled, 'You Don't Have to Be Thin to Win: The Official Chub Club Coach's Workout Program.' 'The worst and the meanest,' he said of the comic who, like DeGeneres, has left the country due to disapproval toward Donald Trump.
After nearly two decades of being on the air, showrunners decided to pull the plug on the program in 2022. DeGeneres, 67, told The Hollywood Reporter that year, 'I have to just trust that whatever happened during that time, which was obviously very, very difficult, happened for a reason. I think that I learned a lot, and there were some things that came up that I was shocked and surprised by. It was eye-opening, but I just trust that that had to happen.'
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