Alec Baldwin's talk show was canceled after calling the photographer an insult

Late with Alec Baldwin only ran on MSNBC for a few weeks.


Alec Baldwin is an actor with a reputation for generate a bad press - a fact which was true long before its involvement in a accidental shooting on a shoot In 2021, who killed a crew member and can lead to another induction homicide accusation for the actor (the first was abandoned). For decades, the star's career has been plagued by much more minor scandals, but attracting attention, often caused by his obvious lack of filter. But while the vocal messaging of 2007 in which he called his daughter Ireland Baldwin A " Small rude and thoughtless pig "Perhaps having cost him the respect of millions, a different explosion was the one that cost him a job. Continue to read to find out how Baldwin temperament - and a special way with words - pulled him from his own show of TV.

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Late with Alec Baldwin Was presented on MSNBC to low notes in October 2013.

Alec Baldwin in 2013
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Baldwin's talk show was launched as a result of its career role as Jack Donaghy in the SitCom à Vis 30 rock . According to The Daily Beast, the idea of putting him at the head of a serious spirit Charlie Rose - Style program Born from a podcast on which he had worked for the Newyork City WNYC and seemed a good alternative to try to reproduce his most recent success.

"I had three or four very lucrative sitcom offers to go and reproduce what I did for Tina Fey , the creator of 30 rock ] —GO and play a guy A, out of the touch that rages any type of character, "said Baldwin. Instead, he decided on the prospect of a less demanding schedule - his wife Hilaria had recently given birth For their first child and the talk show would allow him to stay at home in New York - was attractive.

The program made its debut on October 11, 2013, with guest Bill de Blasio , then candidate for the mayor of New York. Despite a decent review in The New York Times , the grades were lower than expected and continued to decrease in the following weeks. After five weeks, according to The Hollywood Reporter ,, The bill was 40% From that of the first ... and he would have no chance of improving.

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Baldwin entered the hot water after attacked a paparazzo.

Alec Baldwin in 2013
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Addressing The Daily Beast around the first of the talk show, Baldwin revealed that he was already irritated by the way the press treated him - and his frustration was soon to face a confrontation killing a show with a photographer .

"If you have the misfortune where each time you enter an altercation with someone, they have a camera in their hands, and they are a professional photographer ... I do not have these problems with the people who sell Awards at the Yankee Stadium. I don't have these problems with my child's school teachers, "said Baldwin. "Whenever it happens, it is because I have this snap photographer who argues with me on his rights from the first amendment that almost strike my wife with a camera."

In this case, the actor landed in hot water with his bosses in MSNBC after TMZ circulated a strip of An altercation This took place in Manhattan, near the actor's home. The clip shows Baldwin emerging from his car to reprimand a photographer who, according to him, apparently has been too close to his family. He continues a man and seems to mumble an anti-gay insult in another videographer spinning the scene.

MSNBC suspended and then canceled the show.

Alec Baldwin in 2013
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The story of TMZ quickly became viral, which apparently prompted Baldwin bosses to MSNBC to remove its air broadcast after five episodes were produced. According to CBS News, Baldwin's radiance has not been cited directly As a reason for the suspension, but it came immediately afterwards. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

The actor apologized for his behavior, even if he said that his use of an anti-gay insult was not intentional. In a declaration published on the MSNBC website, Baldwin wrote , "I did not intend to injure or offend anyone with my choice of words, but I have it clear - and for that, I am deeply sorry. Say and did it this week, while I was trying to protect my family, was offensive and unacceptable. "

He also apologized on social networks. In A tweet thread deleted since Archived by CBS News, the actor wrote: "Anti-gay insults are wrong. They are offended not only, but threaten tolerance harshly fought with LGBT rights ... Riche Ferraro De [Glaad] informs me that [the beginning explanatory by a "C"] is an anti-gay epithet. In this case, I apologize and I will remove it from my vocabulary. ""

Despite the actor's excuse tour, after the two -week suspension, MSNBC has chosen to cancel Late with Alec Baldwin , according to Los Angeles Times .

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It was not the first time that Baldwin made the headlines for homophobic comments.

Alec Baldwin in 2023
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At that time, Baldwin was no stranger to apologies for inflammatory and homophobic comments. Months before, in January 2013, he published a statement to Glaad expressing his regret for the words he used during another confrontation with a member of the press.

According to ABC News, Baldwin apologized Following a Twitter diatriber in which he called a journalist for Daily mail A "little toxic queen".

"My poorly informed attack on George Stark of the Daily mail had absolutely nothing to do with the problems of the sexual orientation of anyone, " Baldwin wrote in the declaration , which was published on the Glaad website. "My anger was addressed to Mr. Stark for lying and obviously disseminating defamed information on my wife."

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