Citing sources, Variety revealed that a note sent to the program staff last week declaring that WarnerMedia’s labor relations organization had partnered with an outside organization to conduct the interviews.
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Eric Schiffer, president of Reputation Management Consultants, weighed how the effects of research can have “fatal consequences for Ellen” and her brand.
“It may only contain one of the biggest frauds in the history of American celebrities,” he suggested. “Now there are serious investigators about the allegations and if the effects are as damning as what was reported, then you can see how the Ellen Show explodes.”
Schiffer was not surprised when the news of an investigation was heard because “there were too many credible claims,” he argued, adding that “if WarnerMedia’s control team did not act, they would feel the public’s anger.”
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The logo and the meddling expert also reacted to DeGeneres’ silence on the matter.
“I think Ellen has been arrogant in all her technique with the accusations and it’s crazy that she doesn’t settle for the duty of what’s going on under her leadership,” she said. “In Hollywood, duty stops at the star’s call at the door, not at the producer level. It would be for him not to know what’s going on with his own staff.”
Meanwhile, accusations of a “toxic paint environment” were addressed through the show’s executive manufacturers, Ed Glavin, Andy Lassner and Mary Connelly, in a message to Buzzfeed at the time of the point-of-sale report.
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“We are sorry and sorry to hear that even a user of our family production circle has had a negative experience,” they said. “This is not who we are, what we’re trying to be, or the project Ellen has proposed to us.”
He explained that “the day-to-day duty of the Array display.. it’s entirely duty” to producers.
“We take all this very seriously and realize, as many in the world are learning, that we want to do more, we are committed to doing more and we will do it more,” they said.
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Schiffer believes DeGeneres faces “a damaging era of his career at a critical moment in the American experience.” Any discovery that reveals a poison “would be an apocalyptic end to his television career,” he added.
Fox News’ Nate Day contributed to the report.