Howard Stern has offered some unconventional advice to Ellen DeGeneres, telling her to embrace her increasingly toxic reputation.
The TV host has been making headlines in recent weeks following claims by a number of staff at The Ellen DeGeneres Let’s see that racism, bullying and sexual harassment ran behind the scenes.
While DeGeneres herself has not personally been accused of staff misconduct, she said in a statement that she, as the show’s face, took “full responsibility” for the situation.
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Stern, which presents SiriusXMs Howard Stern Show, has now said that if he sat in DeGeneres’ shoes, he “would change [his] whole image. ”
“I would go up in the air and be a son of ab ****,” he said. ‘People would come and [I would] go, ‘F *** you.’ Just be ap ****. ”
He went on to say, “Do you think I’m ap ****? I’ll just show you … ”
Stern, who has a reputation for being a shock jock, has been a longtime friend of DeGeneres’s, but they have had their ups and downs.
In 2010, he said: “Ellen DeGeneres is so crazy. She’s such a dirty piece of ashes, people who work with her know. She’s a tyrant ogre, this very pretty girl image is a lot of horses *** fakery. ”
They later made amends and Stern even married his wife Beth on the DeGeneres show in 2019.
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