Billy Bush introduced up Donald Trump‘s notorious Entry Hollywood tape throughout a brand new interview with Rob Lowe on the actor’s SiriusXM podcast Actually! With Rob Lowe, revealing that he flagged the president’s lewd feedback to a superior greater than a decade earlier than the scandal broke.
“The day of the filming in 2005, I referred to as my producer [and] stated, ‘You’re not gonna imagine what Trump stated. He’s going after Nancy.’ All I stated was ‘Nancy O’Dell’ as a result of I didn’t hear the opposite stuff,” Bush informed Lowe, referencing his Entry Hollywood colleague O’Dell. The “different stuff” seemingly refers to Trump’s feedback about grabbing girls by the genitals. “I stated, ‘He’s making an attempt to take Nancy furnishings procuring to sleep along with her. That is loopy. He’s achieved it once more! The man’s an animal!’ I report it, principally, to my superior, but it surely sits in a desk without end as a result of…had that tape leaked out when it truly occurred in 2005, I might’ve been fired for a wholly completely different cause — killing NBC’s money cow. Trump was a protected, revered supply. He was 100 million {dollars} in revenue for NBC. He was the king of the rankings.”
On the time, Trump fronted the profitable actuality present The Apprentice for NBC whereas Bush was in his first full 12 months as an Entry Hollywood co-anchor alongside O’Dell. It wasn’t till 2016, throughout the remaining weeks of Trump’s first marketing campaign for the White Home, that The Washington Post published an exposé that exposed audio of what has come to be referred to as “the Entry Hollywood tape.” The recording options Trump, who would survive the scandal to change into president of the US two occasions over, bragging on a bus in 2005 about grabbing girls by the genitals in audio captured off digital camera. “Once you’re a star, they allow you to do it,” he’s overheard saying. “You are able to do something.”
Bush could possibly be heard laughing within the background, and his involvement within the scandal ended up costing him a job at NBC’s As we speak. He’s since recalled the incident and its fallout for The Hollywood Reporter and in a column for The New York Instances, amongst different shops. To Lowe, Bush additionally supplied extra particulars about how NBC executives had been on the hunt for clips that featured Trump talking in a disparaging method about girls.
“NBC put out an APB, all factors bulletin, on Donald Trump as a result of there was a former [pageant queen] who got here ahead and stated he had achieved one thing inappropriate. Donald Trump stated, ‘I’ve by no means stated or achieved something inappropriate with girls ever in my life,’” Bush recalled. “After which NBC, who hates him, despatched out these messages to each division of the corporate: ‘Do you may have any tapes…what they actually wished was Mark Burnett’s tape, the man who ran The Apprentice, as a result of there’s outtakes without end — however [they asked], ‘Does anybody else have something of him speaking disparagingly about girls? We want this.’ And my producer on the time was like, ‘Holy shit. The bus trip. That tape, that was like 11 years in the past. That’s the time when Bush referred to as me proper after it occurred.’”
On Actually! With Rob Lowe, Bush stated by shedding his job, he misplaced out on his first “actually huge paycheck.” He additionally credit a detailed circle, which included his brother, his pastor, Tony Robbins and celebrities like Dennis Quaid, Julie Bowen, Cindy Crawford, Eric Stonestreet, Michael Strahan, Trendy Household creator Steve Levitan and Suzanne Somers, for supporting him.
“I might by no means have survived with out them,” Bush stated. “I did every thing I may consider to maintain myself from leaping off the constructing as a result of, Rob, I used to be about to get an enormous paycheck, my first actually huge paycheck. I’m on the As we speak present. They nonetheless have cash. They’re the very last thing in linear tv with actual cash…and proper again to the underside of the hill. Or let’s say the center of the hill after which you must preserve coming again up once more.”
Bush stated he additionally remembers these individuals who weren’t there for him on the time; although he provides recommendation for anybody in the same predicament with their very own mates. “I at all times say decide up the cellphone, name, ship a textual content: ‘Hey, buddy. Serious about you. I’m right here.’ Do it. Do it. In case you’re ever on that fulcrum the place you possibly can’t determine, do it.”
Lowe’s episode with Bush is a part of the brand new season of Actually! With Rob Lowe, a set of episodes that may characteristic chats with such visitors as Larry Charles, Roblox CEO David Baszucki, Marc Maron, Joel McHale, Daniel Dae Kim and extra.
New episodes of SiriusXM’s Actually! With Rob Lowe drop each Thursday on the SiriusXM app and wherever podcasts can be found. Produced and co-created by SiriusXM’s Staff Coco, the present has featured episodes with visitors like Oprah Winfrey, Ralph Macchio, Robert Downey Jr., Chris Pratt, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey and extra.
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