Despite their beef over the years, radio shock jock has offered some surprising advice to Ellen DeGeneres amid accusations that the talk show host created a toxic work environment for her staff.
“You know what I’d do if I was Ellen? I would change my whole image. I’d go on the air and be a son of a bitch,” Stern said on his SiriusXM radio show on Monday.
“People would come on and (I would) go, ‘Fuck you’ [and] just be a prick,” Howard continued. “So you think I’m a prick? I’m going to show you exactly… I’m known on the air as a prick, but off the air, I’m known as a great guy, you know, for the most part.”
The radio veteran and the comedienne have a tenuous history, with Stern once branding Ellen as “miserable” – thought the pair have since made amends, with Stern even getting remarried to wife Beth on Ellen’s show in 2019.
“Ellen DeGeneres is such a jerk,” Stern said on his show back in February 2010 when they were less-than-amicable.
“She’s such a foul piece of garbage, people who work with her know … she’s a tyrant ogre, this whole nice girl image is a lot of horseshit fakery – she’s miserable, and she is a miserable woman.”
It’s the latest in a string of celebs speaking out in support of the star after BuzzFeed News published a report in which former employees spoke out about the toxic culture created on set. Ellen later apologised for any “toxicity” they may have experienced in a lengthy letter sent to staff on July 30.
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“On day one of our show, I told everyone in our first meeting that The Ellen DeGeneres Show would be a place of happiness – no one would ever raise their voice, and everyone would be treated with respect,” the comedian wrote in the email obtained by Us Weekly.
“Obviously, something changed, and I am disappointed to learn that this has not been the case. And for that, I am sorry. Anyone who knows me knows it’s the opposite of what I believe and what I hoped for our show.”
