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Billy Bush on Trump Tape: 'Of Course He Said It'

There were 7 other guys on the bus at the time, he says

(Newser) - "Of course he said it," Billy Bush writes in a New York Times op-ed addressing reports that President Trump now claims the infamous 2005 Access Hollywood recording was fake. When Trump spoke about "grabbing women by the p---," there were "seven other guys present on...

Billy Bush Hospitalized After Golf Accident

He says he 'dodged a bullet'

(Newser) - Monday wasn't a great day for Billy Bush, but the former Today co-host kept his sense of humor: "FORE! ... I think I dodged a bullet... but sadly not a golf ball," he said in an Instagram post from Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. "Let the jokes...

Billy Bush, Wife Are 'Splitsville'
Billy Bush, Wife
Are 'Splitsville' 
Sep 20, 2017 12:03 AM CDT

Billy Bush, Wife Are 'Splitsville'

A rep says the couple are 'on a short-term break'

(Newser) - Billy Bush and wife Sydney Davis are calling it quits. "I can confirm they are now separated," Bush's lawyer Marshall Grossman tells Page Six , who says the couple is "on a short-term break" after almost 20 years of marriage. A rep for Bush tells People the...

Billy Bush Finally Opens Up About Trump Tape

He says he's planning a TV comeback

(Newser) - Billy Bush says he's been doing a lot of soul-searching in the months since the release of the infamous Access Hollywood Donald Trump tape —and he's now ready for a TV comeback. In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter , the former Today host describes the "awful"...

Megyn Kelly Is In, Tamron Hall Decides She's Out

Network says it wanted her to stay

(Newser) - Today anchor Tamron Hall is quitting NBC and MSNBC amid the upheaval caused by the hiring of Megyn Kelly . Hall co-hosted Today's 9am hour with Al Roker, a slot that's now expected to be given to the former Fox News star. "Tamron is an exceptional journalist, we...

Trump Threatens Lawsuit Over 'Illegal' Recording

He says Access Hollywood bus was 'private dressing room'

(Newser) - Donald Trump appears to be lining up another post-election lawsuit: On Fox's O’Reilly Factor Thursday, he slammed NBC for releasing video of his crude 2005 conversation with Access Hollywood host Billy Bush and suggested he might sue, the Hill reports. He called the bus where most of the...

NBC Fires Billy Bush
NBC Fires Billy Bush
Oct 17, 2016 6:35 PM CDT

NBC Fires Billy Bush

He's booted from 'Today' over Trump tape

(Newser) - NBC News has fired Today show host Billy Bush, who was caught on tape in a vulgar conversation about women with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump before a 2005 Access Hollywood appearance, the AP reports. Bush was suspended at the morning show two days after contents of the tape were...

Lawyer: Billy Bush Couldn't Tell Trump to Shut Up

High-powered attorney is handling NBC exit

(Newser) - Billy Bush has got a new lawyer—and it looks like he won't be leaving NBC without a fight. Marshall Grossman, described by the Hollywood Reporter as "one of Los Angeles' fiercest and most well-respected attorneys," has joined the legal team representing Bush in talks over his...

NBC Is Cutting Its Ties With Billy Bush

'There is simply no excuse for Billy's language and behavior on that tape'

(Newser) - Looks like Billy Bush is yesterday's man at the Today show. Sources tell the Hollywood Reporter that the network is moving to cut its ties with the co-host, who egged on Donald Trump and laughed at his lewd remarks about then-Access Hollywood co-host Nancy O'Dell in a 2005...

Nancy O'Dell Addresses Trump Tape on ET
Nancy O'Dell
Addresses
Trump Tape
Oct 11, 2016 1:00 AM CDT

Nancy O'Dell Addresses Trump Tape

'There is no room for objectification of women'

(Newser) - Nancy O'Dell, one of the women Donald Trump discusses in crude terms in a 2005 "hot mic" moment , says she didn't want to be thrown "into the middle of the political arena"—but she will address the issue now that she's there. "There...

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