Billy Bush is "furious" over being excluded from the "Right now" present's seventieth anniversary video, sources stated.
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Billy Bush is claimed to be “furious” over his exclusion from a video aired Friday commemorating the 70-year historical past of the “Right now” present.
Bush was fired from “Right now” in 2016 after footage leaked from his former present “Entry Hollywood,” through which he engaged in lewd discuss in an outtake with Donald Trump in 2005.
The notorious tape ended Bush’s stint on NBC’s highly effective morning present after a mere two months — and in accordance with Bush himself, despatched him down a spiral marked by months of heavy consuming, loafing on the sofa and crying.
On Friday, a 12- minute video celebrating “Right now’s” 70-year anniversary solely added insult to harm, a supply stated, noting that the tape included virtually each speaking head who labored on the present — even the disgraced Matt Lauer.
Lauer, who was ousted from NBC in 2017 amid accusations of sexual misconduct and assault, appeared briefly just a few instances within the video — together with one snippet of Lauer on 9/11 and one other reporting from Egypt, standing in entrance of the Sphinx sporting khaki shorts and shades.
“Billy was furious they included everybody besides him,” a supply near Bush stated. “Once they selected to incorporate Matt Lauer — who was accused of anally raping a younger employees member whereas on a piece journey — however selected to not embody Billy, you understand one thing may be very unsuitable.”
NBC declined to remark. Bush didn’t return requests for remark.
Though Bush’s run on “Right now” was quick, sources famous that the video was thorough, together with everybody from Savannah Guthrie, Hoda Kotb, Craig Melvin and Al Roker to Carson Daly, Katie Couric, Ann Curry, Jane Pauley and Bryant Gumbel.
The present even unearthed previous black and white clips that includes the likes of Frank Blair, John Chancellor and Barbara Walters.
“It's like Billy by no means existed,” the supply stated, calling NBC a community of “imply ladies.”
However some insiders don’t really feel so unhealthy for the anchor, whose presence on “Right now” was scant in contrast with Lauer’s 20-year profession. The 50-year-old Bush, who's the nephew of the late president George H. Bush, has a “large ego” and “inflated sense of self,” a supply sniffed.
In TV circles, Bush, who now hosts leisure present “Further,” known as “Bully Bush” by some for his demanding methods.
“The ‘Right now’ present is like an previous girlfriend he can’t give up,” the supply stated. “He’s obsessed. He must let it go.”
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