Extra Host Billy Bush Caught Making Sexual Joke About Kendall Jenner Years After Donald Trump Controversy
07.01.2023 - 21:27
/ perezhilton.com
Billy Bush has found himself in hot water once again.
As you may recall, weeks before the 2016 presidential election, when the 51-year-old was an anchor for Today, audio surfaced from a infamous conversation between him and Donald Trump in 2005 about groping women. Trump said at the time:
Billy, who was working at Access Hollywood when the interaction happened, then responded:
Following the incident, the television host faced a ton of backlash and was later fired from Today. He said in an apology shortly afterward:
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But it looks like Billy hasn’t learned anything from the previous situation about objectifying women because three years after the incident, he was caught making another lewd comment – this time about Kendall Jenner. On Friday, The Daily Beast revealed that it obtained audio from an October 31 taping of Extra where Billy made a sexual joke about the 27-year-old model’s Toy Story-inspired Halloween costume. After a staff member told him she went as Jessie the cowgirl, he remarked at the time:
WTF??!
Clearly, someone knew the comment would not go over well, as it never made it on air. Instead, the radio personality went on to say, “it’s going to be hard to see Toy Story the same way ever again.” Wow. Despite the gross joke, it looks like Extra is standing by Billy. A spokesperson for Telepictures, the division of Warner Bros. Television that produces the show, defended him in a statement, saying:
A source also claimed to Page Six that Billy meant no harm with the comment about Kendall, explaining:
Um… It’s a little concerning if these types of jokes are being made during the “normal creative process?!”
At this time, Kendall has not