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More Trouble At ‘The Ellen DeGeneres Show’: Former Employees Make Sexual Misconduct Allegations
Dozens of former “Ellen DeGeneres Show” employees accused multiple executive producers of sexual misconduct, harassment and assault in a Buzzfeed News report published Thursday night, hours after Ellen DeGeneres apologized as an ongoing internal investigation into toxic workplace allegations revealed “deficiencies related to the show’s day-to-day management.”
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Nearly a dozen former employees accused head writer and executive producer Kevin Leman of sexual misconduct, including groping, making sexually explicit comments and behaving inappropriately at a company party, while Leman said he denied "any kind of sexual impropriety."
Multiple former employees accused executive producer Ed Glavin of “being handsy with women” and leading the team by creating a culture of fear and intimidation, though Glavin did not comment on the allegations.
In all, 36 former employees independently corroborated incidents of sexual misconduct, harassment and assault by top producers.
On Monday, Variety reported that Warner Bros. parent company WarnerMedia and a third-party firm are conducting an internal investigation into the working conditions at the show and would interview current and former employees.
Warner Bros. didn’t comment on the sexual misconduct allegations, citing the current investigation, but said in an earlier statement Thursday that the primary findings indicated some “deficiencies related to the show’s day-to-day management” resulting in staffing changes and other “appropriate measures” to address the issues.
DeGeneres has not yet commented on the sexual misconduct allegations, but reportedly sent an internal memo Thursday acknowledging that the culture doesn’t match the expectations she set when she started the show 17 years ago.
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