Fired NY1 meteorologist Erick Adame desires his job again after going public concerning the leaked nude photographs that price him his gig — together with his rep telling The Put up Tuesday the ordeal is a case of “revenge porn.”
Adame — who says he was booted from the Spectrum Information channel after somebody on an grownup webcam web site despatched his bare footage to his employer — is asking his bosses to have a look at the wave of help he’s obtained over the scandal, his rep stated.
“Name it loopy, name it naïve, name it far-fetched however Erick would actually love his bosses and the decision-makers at Spectrum [News NY1] to have a look at the overwhelming response on social media and conventional media and see that individuals actually love him and provides him one other probability,” Adame’s disaster supervisor, Howard Bragman of agency La Brea Media, informed The Put up.
“His actual dream can be to come back again to the job he has at all times liked for the final decade-and-a-half,” Bragman stated.
The Emmy-nominated weatherman got here clear on Instagram Monday about his decade-long secret appearances on an grownup webcam web site, apologizing and saying he was getting skilled assist for the “compulsive conduct.”
He stated he was fired after bare footage taken from movies he recorded on a webcam web site for males have been despatched to his employer and his mother.
Adame is in search of a court docket order to pressure the positioning to disclose the identification of the particular person, noting he intends to sue them however wants their actual identification to take action.
“There was no extortion. It was traditional revenge porn,” Adame’s rep stated.
“Someone acknowledged him and thought they'd play God and share it together with his employer and his household.”
Adame’s publish has obtained hundreds of likes since Monday, in addition to lots of of feedback, many expressing help for the forecaster.
Celebs together with Hilaria Baldwin and Cynthia Nixon have backed Adame with Baldwin commenting on the Instagram publish with a coronary heart emoji and Nixon – who identifies as queer – tweeting that NY1 ought to rehire him.
“Pricey @NY1 – yours is to not choose your worker’s personal, consensual sexual actions, however how he reviews the climate,” the “Intercourse and the Metropolis” actress stated on Twitter Tuesday.
“This appears and smells rather a lot like civil rights violation and as an LGBTQ NYer I'm notably troubled by it,” Nixon’s tweet continued. “Please reinstate Erick Adame now.”
Adame’s variety of followers on Instagram have additionally greater than doubled since his assertion – with roughly 100 new ones rolling in each hour, his rep stated.
“If individuals really need him on the air, write to Spectrum, tweet to Spectrum, hit them up on Instagram and allow them to know you need Erick again,” Bragman stated.
A supply with Spectrum Information informed The Put up the state of affairs “is extra difficult than it seems,” noting that the corporate labored with Adame “for months on this concern” earlier than he was fired.
The supply additionally stated the Spectrum is “supportive of him sharing his story.”
“It had nothing to do together with his sexual orientation,” the supply stated. “He's stating he desires his job again and that it was his dream job – proof that it’s an inclusive setting.
“However he has a proper to privateness, so there isn’t a lot they will say on the document.”
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