Extra's very bad week
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KCRW
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Publication Date |
Aug 02, 2019
Episode Duration |
00:03:56

The Warner Bros show 'Extra' is having a rough go of it this week. Host Mario Lopez is in hot water after he made controversial comments about the parenting of possibly transgender kids. And cohost A.J. Calloway has been removed from the program, many months after multiple sexual assault allegations emerged. 

The Warner Bros show 'Extra' is having a rough go of it this week. Host Mario Lopez is in hot water after he made controversial comments about the parenting of possibly transgender kids. And cohost A.J. Calloway has been removed from the program,...

Mario Lopez has since apologized for telling Candace Owens that it's "dangerous" for parents to raise a child as their preferred gender. The producers of 'Extra' also released a statement saying Lopez's views do not reflect their own. With cohost A.J. Calloway, there's the question of what took Warner Bros so long to officially push him off the show even after multiple sexual assault allegations were reported. One thing that seems to have spurred the company to action is when Sil Lai Abrams, one of the women who accused Calloway of sexual assault, tweeted at John Stankey, the head of Warner Media.

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