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- ‘STRANGER THGS’ STAR NOAH SCHNAPP OUT AS GAY: ‘I’M MORE SIAR TO WILL THAN I THOUGHT’
- ‘DISGTG’: NBC STAFFERS FUR ABOUT NEWS CHIEF NOAH OPPENHEIM’S SELF-DEALG‘NOAH NEEDS A SUMMER HOUSE’THE NBC NEWS CHIEF’S WIFE WROTE A BOOK WH ‘TODAY’ SHOW ANCHOR SAVANNAH GUTHRIE, WHO PHED THE WORK TO KEEP HIM ON SPE RECENT NTROVERSY.LLOYD GROVELACHLAN CARTWRIGHTEDOR AT LARGEANDREW KIRELLSENR EDORUPDATED OCT. 23, 2019 10:05AM EDT / PUBLISHED OCT. 23, 2019 5:10AM EDT PHOTO ILLTRATN BY THE DAILY BEAST/PHOTOS GETTYNBC NEWS PRINT NOAH OPPENHEIM IS FACG PLATS OF SELF-ALG OM HIS OWN NEWS DIVISN STAFFERS. IT’S AN UNWELE ADDN TO THE NTROVERSI HE’S ALREADY NONTG OM BOTH SI AND OUTSI NBC OVER HIS ALLEGED QUASHG OF STORI THAT EXPOSED SEXUAL MISNDUCT BY POWERFUL MEN WHO HAVE DONE BS WH THE PEACK NETWORK.SEVERAL NBC NEWS STAFFERS THIS WEEK EXPRSED OUTRAGE THAT OPPENHEIM AND HIS WIFE ALLISON HAVE BEEN BENEFG OM NBC’S ON-AIR PROMOTN OF APPARENTLY LUCRATIVE SI PROJECTS ON WHICH TODAY SHOW STAR SAVANNAH GUTHRIE HAS BEEN LLABORATG WH THE BOSS’ WIFE.AND WHILE OPPENHEIM HAS FACED LLS FOR HIS DISMISSAL, WH A WOMEN’S RIGHTS GROUP SCHLED TO RALLY OUTSI 30 ROCKEFELLER PLAZA ON WEDNDAY, HE’S FOUND AN ALLY GUTHRIE. THE DAILY BEAST HAS NFIRMED THAT GUTHRIE AND TODAY -HOST HODA KOTB RECENTLY FEND OPPENHEIM, AND URGED THAT HE BE KEPT ON, TO NBCUNIVERSAL CHAIRMAN STEVE BURKE.OVER THE PAST TWO YEARS, GUTHRIE AND ALLISON OPPENHEIM, A CLIL PSYCHOLOGIST, HAVE -THORED TWO BTSELLG CHILDREN’S BOOKS—PRCS WEAR PANTS AND S SEQUEL, PRCS SAVE THE WORLD—BOTH OF WHICH RECEIVED AGGRSIVE AND REPEATED PROMOTN ON VAR HOURS OF THE TODAY SHOW. THE BOOKS ARE BEG VELOPED TO AN ANIMATN SERI BY DREW BARRYMORE’S PRODUCTN PANY, AND HAVE SPIRED A “PRCS”-BRAND KIDS’ PAJAMA SET THAT RECENTLY WENT ON SALE, ALONG WH PI OF THEIR FIRST BOOK, AT NORDSTROM PARTMENT STOR. OPPENHEIM’S E OF NBC’S AIRWAV TO PROMOTE PERSONAL PROJECTS DAT BACK MORE THAN A , WHEN HE WAS A TODAY SHOW SENR PRODUCER AND HAWKG WHAT HE LLED HIS “BATHROOM AND BEDSI BOOK,” THE INTELLECTUAL DEVOTNAL, AND, A YEAR LATER, A SEQUEL FOCED ON AMERIN HISTORY—BOTH OF WHICH RECEIVED PREC ON-AIR ATTENTN SEGMENTS HOSTED BY MATT LER.“IT’S DISGTG,” AN NBC NEWS VETERAN TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “FOR OPPENHEIM, OR ANY NEWS EXECUTIVE FOR THAT MATTER, TO E THE PROGRAMS OVER WHICH HE HAS NTROL TO HAWK HIS OWN BOOK, OR THE BOOK THAT HIS WIFE -WROTE WH TODAY ANCHOR SAVANNAH GUTHRIE, IS WRONG ON SO MANY LEVELS.” THIS PERSON, ONE OF SEVERAL WHO CRICIZED OPPENHEIM, ASKED NOT TO BE INTIFIED OUT OF FEAR OF POSSIBLE RETALIATN. “IT’S UHIL, SELF-SERVG AND GO AGAST THE POLICI THEY ASK ALL NBC NEWS EMPLOYE TO ABI BY,” THE NEWS DIVISN VETERAN ADD. AN NBC NEWS SPOKPERSON FEND THE OPPENHEIMS’ E OF NBC PROGRAMMG TO FLOG THEIR BOOKS AS STANDARD THE TELEVISN DTRY. TO BE SURE, SUCH ON-AIR PERSONALI AS ABC’S ROB ROBERTS AND AMY ROBACH, CNN’S JAKE TAPPER, CBS’S GAYLE KG AND ABC’S MICHAEL STRAHAN—TO SAY NOTHG OF CHIEF ABC NEWS ANCHOR GEE STEPHANOPOULOS’S EDIAN-WIFE, ALI WENTWORTH—HAVE HAWKED BOOKS ON THEIR RPECTIVE WORKS.BY PARISON, HOWEVER, THE OPPENHEIMS ARE VIRTUALLY UNKNOWN TO THE PUBLIC.“LERALLY EVERY ANCHOR AND REPORTER, ON EVERY SHOW, ON EVERY WORK, HAS PROMOTED THEIR BOOK ON THEIR AIR, SCE TELEVISN WAS VENTED,” THE NBC NEWS SPOKPERSON EMAILED THE DAILY BEAST. “SAVANNAH GUTHRIE AND ALLISON OPPENHEIM -THORED 2 CHILDREN’S BOOKS – FOCED ON FEMALE EMPOWERMENT – WHICH WERE FEATURED EXACTLY AS MUCH AS THE BOOKS OF UNTLS LLEAGU, AND WH ALLISON’S RELATNSHIP ALWAYS FULLY DISCLOSED.”THIS LATT FLAP IS EPTG AT A MOMENT WHEN FORMER NBC NEWS RRPONNT RONAN FARROW’S JT-PUBLISHED BOOK CATCH & KILL PICTS OPPENHEIM, AS WELL AS NBC NEWS AND MSNBC CHAIRMAN ANDY LACK, AS PULATG TO A PRSURE MPAIGN BY DISGRACED STUD EXECUTIVE HARVEY WESTE TO QUASH FARROW’S REPORTG ON HIS SERIAL SEXUAL MISNDUCT, AND ALSO OF TONG DOWN A RAPE ALLEGATN AGAST FIRED TODAY SHOW ANCHOR LER. “LER JOKED ON-AIR THAT [OPPENHEIM’S] BOOK SHOULD ACTUALLY BE LLED ‘NOAH NEEDS A SUMMER HOE.’” IN ADDN, HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST AND FORMER FASHN MOL SIL LAI ABRAMS WROTE A TAILED ACUNT THE DAILY BEAST ON MONDAY OF HOW NBC AND NBC NEWS EXECUTIV THWARTED MSNBC ANCHOR JOY REID’S METICULOLY REPORTED STORY ABOUT ABRAMS’ SEXUAL ASSLT ACCATNS AGAST HIP-HOP MOGUL RSELL SIMMONS AND EXTRA TELEVISN PERSONALY A.J. CALLOWAY. AFTER NBC PASSED ON THE SOP FOLLOWG SEVERAL LAYS FOR FACT-CHECKG AND TERNAL LEGAL REVIEWS, THE TAILS OF ABRAMS’ ALLEGATNS WERE PUBLISHED BY THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER.NBC NEWS’ REFAL TO PUBLISH THE STORY WAS REVEALG S SIARY TO OPPENHEIM’S CISN, ALONG WH LACK’S, NOT TO AIR RONAN FARROW’S WESTE REPORTG—WHICH HE TURNED, LS THAN TWO MONTHS LATER, TO A PULZER PRIZE-WNG NEW YORKER ARTICLE.HOWEVER, THE NTROVERSI SURROUNDG THE 41-YEAR-OLD OPPENHEIM, CLUDG HIS S-OLD UNRGRADUATE MGS ABOUT SEXUAL POLICS THE HARVARD CRIMSON—FOR WHICH HE RECENTLY APOLOGIZED AFTER THEY WERE TAILED BY THE DAILY BEAST—HAVE YET TO THREATEN HIS OR LACK’S JOB SECURY.THE WALL STREET JOURNAL REPORTED ON TUDAY THAT BURKE AND NBC’S PARENT PANY COMST RECENTLY RENEWED OPPENHEIM’S NTRACT AND VIEW HIM AS THE SUCCSOR TO LACK, WHO, AT 72, IS STAYG HIS PERCH THROUGH THE 2020 PRINTIAL ELECTN.THE NEWS PROMPTED A MAND OM THE ADVOCY GROUP ULTRAVLET—WHICH SCRIB S MISSN AS ONE “TO FIGHT SEXISM AND CREATE A MORE CLIVE WORLD THAT ACCURATELY REPRENTS ALL WOMEN”—THAT COMST CHIEF EXECUTIVE BRIAN ROBERTS REVERSE THE CISN TO RE-UP OPPENHEIM.“IT IS EPLY DISTURBG THAT COMST CEO BRIAN ROBERTS WOULD SHOW SUCH POOR JUDGMENT AND RENEW S NTRACT WH NOAH OPPENHEIM KNOWG FULL WELL THAT HE WAS FACG ALLEGATNS OF ENABLG SEXUAL ABERS THE WORKPLACE AND HAD A RERD OF SILENCG SURVIVORS AND STORI OF SURVIVORS THE NEWSROOM,” CLARED ULTRAVLET EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR SHNNA THOMAS.“THE ROT AT COMST CLEARLY GO TO THE TOP—WH THE MEDIA GIANT RG MORE ABOUT SHORT-TERM PROFS THAN ABOUT PROTECTG S EMPLOYE AND SAFEGUARDG LONG-TERM SHAREHOLR VALUE,” THOMAS NTUED. “THIS IS A MISTAKE THAT COMST AND NBC UNIVERSAL WILL REGRET.”RICH MCHUGH, WHO WAS FARROW’S REPORTG PARTNER AND PRODUCER, AGREED. “IT’S SHAMEFUL,” HE TOLD THE DAILY BEAST.WHAT’S MORE, A GROUP OF PROMENT WOMEN THE TV BIZ—CLUDG FORMER TODAY ANCHOR MEGYN KELLY AND FORMER FOX NEWS ANCHOR GRETCHEN CARLSON, WHO HELPED END ROGER AIL’ SEXUALLY HOSTILE REIGN AT FOX—SIGNED AN OPEN LETTER LLG FOR AN PENNT VTIGATN OF THE WAY NBC NEWS EXECS ALT WH THE MATT LER ALLEGATNS. THE WORK CLEARED SELF AFTER AN -HOE REVIEW.“MANY HAVE LLED FOR AN PENNT, OUTSI VTIGATN TO WHAT HAPPENED HERE,” MCHUGH NTUED, “AND THAT SEEMS LIKE A GOOD IA, PECIALLY NOW.”FOR THE MOMENT, GUTHRIE’S AND KOTB’S SUPPORT HAS APPARENTLY SECURED OPPENHEIM’S FUTURE AT NBC.“UNLS THE TALENT TURNS ON NOAH, NOTHG IS GOG TO CHANGE,” AN NBC SOURCE TOLD THE DAILY BEAST.“SAVANNAH AND HODA PAT THEMSELV AS FEMALE LEARS. THEN I READ THEY SUPPORT NOAH, AND THAT SAVANNAH IS BS WH HIS WIFE,” A DIFFERENT NBC STAFFER TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “I’M VERY ANGRY.” A FEMALE TODAY PRODUCER SAID: “WOMEN ARE APOPLECTIC.”AN NBC SIR SYMPATHETIC TO OPPENHEIM RETORTED: “A LOT OF WOMEN—AND MEN—AT NBC ARE APOPLECTIC ABOUT ALL OF THE FALSE ALLEGATNS BEG HURLED AT OUR ANIZATN.”IN PARTICULAR, GUTHRIE’S FENSE OF HER BOSS IS UNSURPRISG, NSIRG HER -THORSHIP AND BS RELATNSHIP WH ALLISON OPPENHEIM.THE FIRST BOOK THE THEIR SAGA, TLED PRCS WEAR PANTS, WAS PUBLISHED ON SEPT. 12, 2017 AND WAS THE SUBJECT OF AT LEAST MORE THAN A HANDFUL OF NBC SEGMENTS CHEERG S RELEASE. SIX MONTHS BEFORE H SHELV, TODAY SHOW RRPONNT JENNA BH HAGER LABELED THE BOOK AMONG HER “FAVORE THGS” AN TERVIEW WHILE GUTHRIE NOTED HER -THOR “HAPPENS TO BE MARRIED TO OUR BOSS.”ON THE DAY OF RELEASE, GUTHRIE AND OPPENHEIM’S BOOK GOT TWO SEPARATE TODAY SHOW SEGMENTS. IN ONE, LER RIBBED HIS -HOST OVER HER BS NNECTNS TO THE BOSS’ WIFE: “CAN WE MENTN RIGHT OFF THE BAT THAT ALLIE IS ACTUALLY MARRIED TO NOAH OPPENHEIM WHO IS THE PRINT OF NBC NEWS? SO THIS WAS AN EXTREMELY TOUGH BOOKG TO ACPLISH,” HE JOKED. IN ANOTHER, KOTB TOLD VIEWERS TO “GO OUT AND GET THIS BOOK” AFTER NOTG THAT “ALLI HAPPENS TO BE MARRIED TO A VERY IMPORTANT MAN, NOAH OPPENHEIM, WHO’S THE PRINT OF NBC NEWS.”SEVERAL WEEKS LATER, AFTER PRCS ROCKETED UP THE CHARTS, THE TODAY SHOW GHED OVER A STAR-STUDD BOOK PARTY. “IT HAS REALLY PTIVATED PEOPLE,” KOTB SAID OF THE OPPENHEIM-GUTHRIE LLABORATN. A WEEK LATER, MEGYN KELLY FEATURED THE BOOK ON HER TODAY THIRD-HOUR TALK SHOW AND TERVIEWED THE PAIR AS PART OF “NATNAL KICK BUTT DAY.”THE CTUO TODAY SHOW VERAGE REPEATED SELF LAST YEAR, WH THE MORNG PROGRAM REVEALG ON-AIR EARLY MAY THE BOOK VER OF THE OPPENHEIM-GUTHRIE SEQUEL, ENTLED PRCS SAVE THE WORLD. UPON BEG PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 2018, THE FOLLOW-UP RECEIVED SEVERAL GLOWG TODAY SEGMENTS, CLUDG ONE ANNOUNCG THAT DREW BARRYMORE’S PRODUCTN PANY WILL VELOP THE PRCS PENELOPE TO AN ANIMATED SERI.MORE RECENTLY, NORDSTROM BEGAN SELLG A $50 BUNDLE FEATURG THE FIRST PRCS BOOK ALONG WH A TWO-PIECE PAJAMA SET FEATURG PRTED ARTWORK OM THE BOOK. THE NORDSTROM AL IS SAID TO HAVE BEEN MA UNR A THIRD-PARTY LICENSG AGREEMENT UNR WHICH GUTHRIE AND OPPENHEIM RECEIVE “NOMAL” PENSATN.BEYOND HIS WIFE’S BS NNECTNS TO GUTHRIE, NBC STAFFERS HAVE NOTED THAT OPPENHEIM—WHO ONCE BRIEFLY LEFT THE OUTLET FOR A SUCCSFUL SCREENWRG REER—HAS LONG SEEMED TO E HIS PERCH ATOP THE WORK TO PROMOTE HIS OWN OUTSI WORK.“EVERYTHG IS ANOTHER MERCIAL FOR THE PEOPLE,” ONE NBC SIR LAMENTED TO THE DAILY BEAST. IN OCTOBER 2006, WHEN OPPENHEIM—THEN SENR PRODUCER OF THE TODAY SHOW—PUBLISHED THE FIRST TRIVIA-FOCED THE INTELLECTUAL DEVOTNAL, HE AND HIS -THOR DAVID KIDR GOT THEIR OWN PROMOTNAL TERVIEW ON THE MORNG SHOW ALONG WH THE MATT LER STAMP OF APPROVAL. “FULL DISCLOSURE, WE SHOULD MENTN THAT NOAH IS ACTUALLY A SENR PRODUCER HERE,” LER SAID DURG THE EFFIVE SEGMENT, JOKG: “THAT MEANS YOU DON'T GET TO TALK AT ALL.” THE ANCHOR NOTED THAT OPPENHEIM WROTE “99 PERCENT OF THE BOOK” AND HIS -THOR QUIPPED THAT HIS OWN NAME WAS ON THE BOOK SIMPLY FOR “VENTOR CRED.”A YEAR LATER, 2007, OPPENHEIM’S SEND STALLMENT OF THE INTELLECTUAL DEVOTNAL SERI—THIS TIME FOCED ON AMERIN HISTORY—RECEIVED TWO FULL SEGMENTS OF PROMOTN ON THE TODAY SHOW, CLUDG A LENGTHY TERVIEW AND AN EXCERPT/QUIZ POSTED TO THE SHOW’S WEBSE.EVEN THEN, WAS APPARENT TO LER THAT OPPENHEIM HAD HIS EY ON BIGGER PRIZ BEYOND HIS DAY JOB. “FULL DISCLOSURE, WE SHOULD MENTN THAT NOAH ED TO BE A PRODUCER HERE ON THE TODAY SHOW. OH, YOU’RE STILL A PRODUCER HERE? YOU’VE GOT SO MANY OTHER PROJECTS, I’M NOT SURE,” THE ANCHOR ROASTED HIS BOSS.LER ALSO JOKED ON-AIR THAT THE BOOK SHOULD ACTUALLY BE LLED “NOAH NEEDS A SUMMER HOE.”AND LATER THE SHOW, WHILE APPEARG A KCHEN SEGMENT WH ANN CURRY TO PROMOTE HIS BOOK, CURRY PRODD OPPENHEIM: “AND HOW DID YOU GET TWO APPEARANC ON THE TODAY SHOW?” OVER THE NEXT TWO YEARS, EVEN AFTER HE’D BRIEFLY LEFT NBC FOR A HOLLYWOOD VELOPMENT GIG AT REVEILLE, OPPENHEIM APPEARED ON THE TODAY SHOW FOUR MORE TIM TO PROMOTE NEWER STALLMENTS HIS BOOK SERI, AGA CIDG WH QUIZ EXCERPTS POSTED TO THE SHOW’S DIGAL HOME. LLOYD GROVE
‘STRANGER THGS’ STAR NOAH SCHNAPP OUT AS GAY: ‘I’M MORE SIAR TO WILL THAN I THOUGHT’
Noah Schnapp, 18, me out as gay a TikTok on Jan. “Stranger Thgs” actor Noah Schnapp has e out as gay.
“I gus I’m more siar to Will than I thought, ” he ptned the vio, referrg to his gay “Stranger Thgs” character Will Byers.
“When I fally told my iends and fay I was gay after beg sred the closet for 18 years and all they said was ‘we know, ’” Schnapp add text over the vio. Schnapp prevly left Will’s sexualy up to viewers’ terpretatn but nfirmed a 2022 terview wh Variety that his character was gay and love wh his bt iend, Mike Wheeler (played Fn Wolfhard). “Now ’s 100% clear that he is gay and he do love Mike, ” Schnapp ntued.
‘DISGTG’: NBC STAFFERS FUR ABOUT NEWS CHIEF NOAH OPPENHEIM’S SELF-DEALG‘NOAH NEEDS A SUMMER HOUSE’THE NBC NEWS CHIEF’S WIFE WROTE A BOOK WH ‘TODAY’ SHOW ANCHOR SAVANNAH GUTHRIE, WHO PHED THE WORK TO KEEP HIM ON SPE RECENT NTROVERSY.LLOYD GROVELACHLAN CARTWRIGHTEDOR AT LARGEANDREW KIRELLSENR EDORUPDATED OCT. 23, 2019 10:05AM EDT / PUBLISHED OCT. 23, 2019 5:10AM EDT PHOTO ILLTRATN BY THE DAILY BEAST/PHOTOS GETTYNBC NEWS PRINT NOAH OPPENHEIM IS FACG PLATS OF SELF-ALG OM HIS OWN NEWS DIVISN STAFFERS. IT’S AN UNWELE ADDN TO THE NTROVERSI HE’S ALREADY NONTG OM BOTH SI AND OUTSI NBC OVER HIS ALLEGED QUASHG OF STORI THAT EXPOSED SEXUAL MISNDUCT BY POWERFUL MEN WHO HAVE DONE BS WH THE PEACK NETWORK.SEVERAL NBC NEWS STAFFERS THIS WEEK EXPRSED OUTRAGE THAT OPPENHEIM AND HIS WIFE ALLISON HAVE BEEN BENEFG OM NBC’S ON-AIR PROMOTN OF APPARENTLY LUCRATIVE SI PROJECTS ON WHICH TODAY SHOW STAR SAVANNAH GUTHRIE HAS BEEN LLABORATG WH THE BOSS’ WIFE.AND WHILE OPPENHEIM HAS FACED LLS FOR HIS DISMISSAL, WH A WOMEN’S RIGHTS GROUP SCHLED TO RALLY OUTSI 30 ROCKEFELLER PLAZA ON WEDNDAY, HE’S FOUND AN ALLY GUTHRIE. THE DAILY BEAST HAS NFIRMED THAT GUTHRIE AND TODAY -HOST HODA KOTB RECENTLY FEND OPPENHEIM, AND URGED THAT HE BE KEPT ON, TO NBCUNIVERSAL CHAIRMAN STEVE BURKE.OVER THE PAST TWO YEARS, GUTHRIE AND ALLISON OPPENHEIM, A CLIL PSYCHOLOGIST, HAVE -THORED TWO BTSELLG CHILDREN’S BOOKS—PRCS WEAR PANTS AND S SEQUEL, PRCS SAVE THE WORLD—BOTH OF WHICH RECEIVED AGGRSIVE AND REPEATED PROMOTN ON VAR HOURS OF THE TODAY SHOW. THE BOOKS ARE BEG VELOPED TO AN ANIMATN SERI BY DREW BARRYMORE’S PRODUCTN PANY, AND HAVE SPIRED A “PRCS”-BRAND KIDS’ PAJAMA SET THAT RECENTLY WENT ON SALE, ALONG WH PI OF THEIR FIRST BOOK, AT NORDSTROM PARTMENT STOR. OPPENHEIM’S E OF NBC’S AIRWAV TO PROMOTE PERSONAL PROJECTS DAT BACK MORE THAN A , WHEN HE WAS A TODAY SHOW SENR PRODUCER AND HAWKG WHAT HE LLED HIS “BATHROOM AND BEDSI BOOK,” THE INTELLECTUAL DEVOTNAL, AND, A YEAR LATER, A SEQUEL FOCED ON AMERIN HISTORY—BOTH OF WHICH RECEIVED PREC ON-AIR ATTENTN SEGMENTS HOSTED BY MATT LER.“IT’S DISGTG,” AN NBC NEWS VETERAN TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “FOR OPPENHEIM, OR ANY NEWS EXECUTIVE FOR THAT MATTER, TO E THE PROGRAMS OVER WHICH HE HAS NTROL TO HAWK HIS OWN BOOK, OR THE BOOK THAT HIS WIFE -WROTE WH TODAY ANCHOR SAVANNAH GUTHRIE, IS WRONG ON SO MANY LEVELS.” THIS PERSON, ONE OF SEVERAL WHO CRICIZED OPPENHEIM, ASKED NOT TO BE INTIFIED OUT OF FEAR OF POSSIBLE RETALIATN. “IT’S UHIL, SELF-SERVG AND GO AGAST THE POLICI THEY ASK ALL NBC NEWS EMPLOYE TO ABI BY,” THE NEWS DIVISN VETERAN ADD. AN NBC NEWS SPOKPERSON FEND THE OPPENHEIMS’ E OF NBC PROGRAMMG TO FLOG THEIR BOOKS AS STANDARD THE TELEVISN DTRY. TO BE SURE, SUCH ON-AIR PERSONALI AS ABC’S ROB ROBERTS AND AMY ROBACH, CNN’S JAKE TAPPER, CBS’S GAYLE KG AND ABC’S MICHAEL STRAHAN—TO SAY NOTHG OF CHIEF ABC NEWS ANCHOR GEE STEPHANOPOULOS’S EDIAN-WIFE, ALI WENTWORTH—HAVE HAWKED BOOKS ON THEIR RPECTIVE WORKS.BY PARISON, HOWEVER, THE OPPENHEIMS ARE VIRTUALLY UNKNOWN TO THE PUBLIC.“LERALLY EVERY ANCHOR AND REPORTER, ON EVERY SHOW, ON EVERY WORK, HAS PROMOTED THEIR BOOK ON THEIR AIR, SCE TELEVISN WAS VENTED,” THE NBC NEWS SPOKPERSON EMAILED THE DAILY BEAST. “SAVANNAH GUTHRIE AND ALLISON OPPENHEIM -THORED 2 CHILDREN’S BOOKS – FOCED ON FEMALE EMPOWERMENT – WHICH WERE FEATURED EXACTLY AS MUCH AS THE BOOKS OF UNTLS LLEAGU, AND WH ALLISON’S RELATNSHIP ALWAYS FULLY DISCLOSED.”THIS LATT FLAP IS EPTG AT A MOMENT WHEN FORMER NBC NEWS RRPONNT RONAN FARROW’S JT-PUBLISHED BOOK CATCH & KILL PICTS OPPENHEIM, AS WELL AS NBC NEWS AND MSNBC CHAIRMAN ANDY LACK, AS PULATG TO A PRSURE MPAIGN BY DISGRACED STUD EXECUTIVE HARVEY WESTE TO QUASH FARROW’S REPORTG ON HIS SERIAL SEXUAL MISNDUCT, AND ALSO OF TONG DOWN A RAPE ALLEGATN AGAST FIRED TODAY SHOW ANCHOR LER. “LER JOKED ON-AIR THAT [OPPENHEIM’S] BOOK SHOULD ACTUALLY BE LLED ‘NOAH NEEDS A SUMMER HOE.’” IN ADDN, HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST AND FORMER FASHN MOL SIL LAI ABRAMS WROTE A TAILED ACUNT THE DAILY BEAST ON MONDAY OF HOW NBC AND NBC NEWS EXECUTIV THWARTED MSNBC ANCHOR JOY REID’S METICULOLY REPORTED STORY ABOUT ABRAMS’ SEXUAL ASSLT ACCATNS AGAST HIP-HOP MOGUL RSELL SIMMONS AND EXTRA TELEVISN PERSONALY A.J. CALLOWAY. AFTER NBC PASSED ON THE SOP FOLLOWG SEVERAL LAYS FOR FACT-CHECKG AND TERNAL LEGAL REVIEWS, THE TAILS OF ABRAMS’ ALLEGATNS WERE PUBLISHED BY THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER.NBC NEWS’ REFAL TO PUBLISH THE STORY WAS REVEALG S SIARY TO OPPENHEIM’S CISN, ALONG WH LACK’S, NOT TO AIR RONAN FARROW’S WESTE REPORTG—WHICH HE TURNED, LS THAN TWO MONTHS LATER, TO A PULZER PRIZE-WNG NEW YORKER ARTICLE.HOWEVER, THE NTROVERSI SURROUNDG THE 41-YEAR-OLD OPPENHEIM, CLUDG HIS S-OLD UNRGRADUATE MGS ABOUT SEXUAL POLICS THE HARVARD CRIMSON—FOR WHICH HE RECENTLY APOLOGIZED AFTER THEY WERE TAILED BY THE DAILY BEAST—HAVE YET TO THREATEN HIS OR LACK’S JOB SECURY.THE WALL STREET JOURNAL REPORTED ON TUDAY THAT BURKE AND NBC’S PARENT PANY COMST RECENTLY RENEWED OPPENHEIM’S NTRACT AND VIEW HIM AS THE SUCCSOR TO LACK, WHO, AT 72, IS STAYG HIS PERCH THROUGH THE 2020 PRINTIAL ELECTN.THE NEWS PROMPTED A MAND OM THE ADVOCY GROUP ULTRAVLET—WHICH SCRIB S MISSN AS ONE “TO FIGHT SEXISM AND CREATE A MORE CLIVE WORLD THAT ACCURATELY REPRENTS ALL WOMEN”—THAT COMST CHIEF EXECUTIVE BRIAN ROBERTS REVERSE THE CISN TO RE-UP OPPENHEIM.“IT IS EPLY DISTURBG THAT COMST CEO BRIAN ROBERTS WOULD SHOW SUCH POOR JUDGMENT AND RENEW S NTRACT WH NOAH OPPENHEIM KNOWG FULL WELL THAT HE WAS FACG ALLEGATNS OF ENABLG SEXUAL ABERS THE WORKPLACE AND HAD A RERD OF SILENCG SURVIVORS AND STORI OF SURVIVORS THE NEWSROOM,” CLARED ULTRAVLET EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR SHNNA THOMAS.“THE ROT AT COMST CLEARLY GO TO THE TOP—WH THE MEDIA GIANT RG MORE ABOUT SHORT-TERM PROFS THAN ABOUT PROTECTG S EMPLOYE AND SAFEGUARDG LONG-TERM SHAREHOLR VALUE,” THOMAS NTUED. “THIS IS A MISTAKE THAT COMST AND NBC UNIVERSAL WILL REGRET.”RICH MCHUGH, WHO WAS FARROW’S REPORTG PARTNER AND PRODUCER, AGREED. “IT’S SHAMEFUL,” HE TOLD THE DAILY BEAST.WHAT’S MORE, A GROUP OF PROMENT WOMEN THE TV BIZ—CLUDG FORMER TODAY ANCHOR MEGYN KELLY AND FORMER FOX NEWS ANCHOR GRETCHEN CARLSON, WHO HELPED END ROGER AIL’ SEXUALLY HOSTILE REIGN AT FOX—SIGNED AN OPEN LETTER LLG FOR AN PENNT VTIGATN OF THE WAY NBC NEWS EXECS ALT WH THE MATT LER ALLEGATNS. THE WORK CLEARED SELF AFTER AN -HOE REVIEW.“MANY HAVE LLED FOR AN PENNT, OUTSI VTIGATN TO WHAT HAPPENED HERE,” MCHUGH NTUED, “AND THAT SEEMS LIKE A GOOD IA, PECIALLY NOW.”FOR THE MOMENT, GUTHRIE’S AND KOTB’S SUPPORT HAS APPARENTLY SECURED OPPENHEIM’S FUTURE AT NBC.“UNLS THE TALENT TURNS ON NOAH, NOTHG IS GOG TO CHANGE,” AN NBC SOURCE TOLD THE DAILY BEAST.“SAVANNAH AND HODA PAT THEMSELV AS FEMALE LEARS. THEN I READ THEY SUPPORT NOAH, AND THAT SAVANNAH IS BS WH HIS WIFE,” A DIFFERENT NBC STAFFER TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “I’M VERY ANGRY.” A FEMALE TODAY PRODUCER SAID: “WOMEN ARE APOPLECTIC.”AN NBC SIR SYMPATHETIC TO OPPENHEIM RETORTED: “A LOT OF WOMEN—AND MEN—AT NBC ARE APOPLECTIC ABOUT ALL OF THE FALSE ALLEGATNS BEG HURLED AT OUR ANIZATN.”IN PARTICULAR, GUTHRIE’S FENSE OF HER BOSS IS UNSURPRISG, NSIRG HER -THORSHIP AND BS RELATNSHIP WH ALLISON OPPENHEIM.THE FIRST BOOK THE THEIR SAGA, TLED PRCS WEAR PANTS, WAS PUBLISHED ON SEPT. 12, 2017 AND WAS THE SUBJECT OF AT LEAST MORE THAN A HANDFUL OF NBC SEGMENTS CHEERG S RELEASE. SIX MONTHS BEFORE H SHELV, TODAY SHOW RRPONNT JENNA BH HAGER LABELED THE BOOK AMONG HER “FAVORE THGS” AN TERVIEW WHILE GUTHRIE NOTED HER -THOR “HAPPENS TO BE MARRIED TO OUR BOSS.”ON THE DAY OF RELEASE, GUTHRIE AND OPPENHEIM’S BOOK GOT TWO SEPARATE TODAY SHOW SEGMENTS. IN ONE, LER RIBBED HIS -HOST OVER HER BS NNECTNS TO THE BOSS’ WIFE: “CAN WE MENTN RIGHT OFF THE BAT THAT ALLIE IS ACTUALLY MARRIED TO NOAH OPPENHEIM WHO IS THE PRINT OF NBC NEWS? SO THIS WAS AN EXTREMELY TOUGH BOOKG TO ACPLISH,” HE JOKED. IN ANOTHER, KOTB TOLD VIEWERS TO “GO OUT AND GET THIS BOOK” AFTER NOTG THAT “ALLI HAPPENS TO BE MARRIED TO A VERY IMPORTANT MAN, NOAH OPPENHEIM, WHO’S THE PRINT OF NBC NEWS.”SEVERAL WEEKS LATER, AFTER PRCS ROCKETED UP THE CHARTS, THE TODAY SHOW GHED OVER A STAR-STUDD BOOK PARTY. “IT HAS REALLY PTIVATED PEOPLE,” KOTB SAID OF THE OPPENHEIM-GUTHRIE LLABORATN. A WEEK LATER, MEGYN KELLY FEATURED THE BOOK ON HER TODAY THIRD-HOUR TALK SHOW AND TERVIEWED THE PAIR AS PART OF “NATNAL KICK BUTT DAY.”THE CTUO TODAY SHOW VERAGE REPEATED SELF LAST YEAR, WH THE MORNG PROGRAM REVEALG ON-AIR EARLY MAY THE BOOK VER OF THE OPPENHEIM-GUTHRIE SEQUEL, ENTLED PRCS SAVE THE WORLD. UPON BEG PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 2018, THE FOLLOW-UP RECEIVED SEVERAL GLOWG TODAY SEGMENTS, CLUDG ONE ANNOUNCG THAT DREW BARRYMORE’S PRODUCTN PANY WILL VELOP THE PRCS PENELOPE TO AN ANIMATED SERI.MORE RECENTLY, NORDSTROM BEGAN SELLG A $50 BUNDLE FEATURG THE FIRST PRCS BOOK ALONG WH A TWO-PIECE PAJAMA SET FEATURG PRTED ARTWORK OM THE BOOK. THE NORDSTROM AL IS SAID TO HAVE BEEN MA UNR A THIRD-PARTY LICENSG AGREEMENT UNR WHICH GUTHRIE AND OPPENHEIM RECEIVE “NOMAL” PENSATN.BEYOND HIS WIFE’S BS NNECTNS TO GUTHRIE, NBC STAFFERS HAVE NOTED THAT OPPENHEIM—WHO ONCE BRIEFLY LEFT THE OUTLET FOR A SUCCSFUL SCREENWRG REER—HAS LONG SEEMED TO E HIS PERCH ATOP THE WORK TO PROMOTE HIS OWN OUTSI WORK.“EVERYTHG IS ANOTHER MERCIAL FOR THE PEOPLE,” ONE NBC SIR LAMENTED TO THE DAILY BEAST. IN OCTOBER 2006, WHEN OPPENHEIM—THEN SENR PRODUCER OF THE TODAY SHOW—PUBLISHED THE FIRST TRIVIA-FOCED THE INTELLECTUAL DEVOTNAL, HE AND HIS -THOR DAVID KIDR GOT THEIR OWN PROMOTNAL TERVIEW ON THE MORNG SHOW ALONG WH THE MATT LER STAMP OF APPROVAL. “FULL DISCLOSURE, WE SHOULD MENTN THAT NOAH IS ACTUALLY A SENR PRODUCER HERE,” LER SAID DURG THE EFFIVE SEGMENT, JOKG: “THAT MEANS YOU DON'T GET TO TALK AT ALL.” THE ANCHOR NOTED THAT OPPENHEIM WROTE “99 PERCENT OF THE BOOK” AND HIS -THOR QUIPPED THAT HIS OWN NAME WAS ON THE BOOK SIMPLY FOR “VENTOR CRED.”A YEAR LATER, 2007, OPPENHEIM’S SEND STALLMENT OF THE INTELLECTUAL DEVOTNAL SERI—THIS TIME FOCED ON AMERIN HISTORY—RECEIVED TWO FULL SEGMENTS OF PROMOTN ON THE TODAY SHOW, CLUDG A LENGTHY TERVIEW AND AN EXCERPT/QUIZ POSTED TO THE SHOW’S WEBSE.EVEN THEN, WAS APPARENT TO LER THAT OPPENHEIM HAD HIS EY ON BIGGER PRIZ BEYOND HIS DAY JOB. “FULL DISCLOSURE, WE SHOULD MENTN THAT NOAH ED TO BE A PRODUCER HERE ON THE TODAY SHOW. OH, YOU’RE STILL A PRODUCER HERE? YOU’VE GOT SO MANY OTHER PROJECTS, I’M NOT SURE,” THE ANCHOR ROASTED HIS BOSS.LER ALSO JOKED ON-AIR THAT THE BOOK SHOULD ACTUALLY BE LLED “NOAH NEEDS A SUMMER HOE.”AND LATER THE SHOW, WHILE APPEARG A KCHEN SEGMENT WH ANN CURRY TO PROMOTE HIS BOOK, CURRY PRODD OPPENHEIM: “AND HOW DID YOU GET TWO APPEARANC ON THE TODAY SHOW?” OVER THE NEXT TWO YEARS, EVEN AFTER HE’D BRIEFLY LEFT NBC FOR A HOLLYWOOD VELOPMENT GIG AT REVEILLE, OPPENHEIM APPEARED ON THE TODAY SHOW FOUR MORE TIM TO PROMOTE NEWER STALLMENTS HIS BOOK SERI, AGA CIDG WH QUIZ EXCERPTS POSTED TO THE SHOW’S DIGAL HOME. LLOYD GROVE
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