Fifth Avenue Forum

Being asked to join the control room inside The Ellen DeGeneres Show is a coveted spot in Hollywood, but according to dozens of men and women who work behind the scenes, the office is a place where sexual harassment and misconduct by top executive producers runs rampant. One ex-employee said head writer and executive producer Kevin Leman asked him if he could give him a hand job or perform oral sex in a bathroom at a company party in 2013. Another said they separately saw Leman grab a production assistant’s penis. In May 2017, another former employee also said she saw Leman grope a production assistant in a car and kiss his neck. Nearly a dozen former employees, who range from longtime, senior-level employees to production assistants, said it was also common for Leman to make sexually explicit comments in the office, like pointing out male colleagues’ bulges in their crotches, or ask them questions like, “Are you a top or a bottom?” “It’s masked in sarcasm, but it’s not sarcasm,” a former employee said.

In all, 47 former employees who spoke to BuzzFeed News said Glavin led with intimidation and fear on a daily basis. One former employee said when they turned in their notice, Glavin flipped over a table and chair while screaming. Five former employees also said they saw Glavin use a button at his desk to remotely shut his office door “as an intimidation tactic” during reprimands

The door closing button sounds cool, but the rest not.

The door closing button sounds cool, but the rest not.

That's what Matt Lauer had.

Third hand knowledge, but I knew the Ellen show stuff for years now...saw it start to come out more and more recently...Ellen on down, it's a bad deal (not all sexual)

Third hand knowledge, but I knew the Ellen show stuff for years now...saw it start to come out more and more recently...Ellen on down, it's a bad deal (not all sexual)

Her producer is a big time "empathy and compassion" guy, all while being one of the biggest shithead cancel bullies on social media, so yeah this isn't the least bit surprising.

Third hand knowledge, but I knew the Ellen show stuff for years now...saw it start to come out more and more recently...Ellen on down, it's a bad deal (not all sexual)

Her producer is a big time "empathy and compassion" guy, all while being one of the biggest shithead cancel bullies on social media, so yeah this isn't the least bit surprising.

Too often those that are loudest are those that are most guilty.

“In the elevator, I just attacked him. I started trying to kiss him, and he goes ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa! There’s cameras!’ Not ‘You’re 15,’ and he points,” Radtke recalls. “So I just kind of went ‘Oh, okay, I’m sorry.’” Once they entered Ross’s apartment — which Radtke describes as “filthy with South Park stuff and The Man Show **** all over the place” — she alleges they instantly started making out. Then she performed oral sex on Ross and they had unprotected sex, after which Ross told Jessica she had to leave. “I’d felt like I won. I felt very Okay, cool — if I never saw him again, cool,” she recalls.

I don't care about Jeff Ross and don't follow stand up comedy at all, but cases like this seem to walk a fine line. You have a 15 year old guy who gets involved with a gang, takes part in a drive by, and he's an adult who should have known better. You have a 15 year old girl who seeks out a sexual relationship with an older man and she's a victim. Not sure how that works...

In her own words:

“In the elevator, I just attacked him. I started trying to kiss him, and he goes ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa! There’s cameras!’ Not ‘You’re 15,’ and he points,” Radtke recalls. “So I just kind of went ‘Oh, okay, I’m sorry.’” Once they entered Ross’s apartment — which Radtke describes as “filthy with South Park stuff and The Man Show **** all over the place” — she alleges they instantly started making out. Then she performed oral sex on Ross and they had unprotected sex, after which Ross told Jessica she had to leave. “I’d felt like I won. I felt very Okay, cool — if I never saw him again, cool,” she recalls.