Billy Bush Caught Making Sexual Comments About Kendall Jenner – Deadline - Deadline

Several years aft his infamous lewd speech with Donald Trump for Access Hollywood, Billy Bush was caught connected portion making a intersexual remark astir Kendall Jenner during a caller taping of Extra.

The Daily Beast reported Friday that it had obtained audio from an Oct. 31 Extra taping wherever Bush jokes with staffers astir Jenner’s Toy Story-inspired Halloween costume. After asking idiosyncratic for the sanction of her character, to which helium was informed that she was dressed arsenic Jessie the cowgirl, helium says: “Kendall goes arsenic Jessie and, judge me, determination were a batch of woodies.”

The remark didn’t marque it into the conception that aired connected Halloween. While the Extra host did remark connected Jenner’s costume successful the last segment, helium lone went arsenic acold arsenic to say, “it’s going to beryllium hard to see Toy Story the aforesaid mode ever again.”

In a connection to Deadline, a spokesperson for Telepictures, the part of Warner Bros. Television that produces Extra, said: “As with galore forms of accumulation successful the amusement industry, the show’s originative process allows the flexibility to effort antithetic jokes and banter. In the end, immoderate worldly lands connected the cutting country floor, including remarks that whitethorn beryllium excessively edgy to aerial connected broadcast television.” 

This is not the archetypal clip that Bush has been caught connected portion successful a akin situation. Just weeks earlier the 2016 statesmanlike election, portion Bush was an anchor for NBC’s Today, audio surfaced from a 2005 speech betwixt Bush and Trump — who was the GOP statesmanlike campaigner astatine the clip of the leak — about groping women.

In the recording, Trump says, “I don’t adjacent wait. And erstwhile you’re a star, [women] fto you bash it. You tin bash anything. Grab ’em by the pussy.” Bush, who was moving for Access Hollywood at the clip of the conversation, tin beryllium heard responding: “Whatever you want.”

Bush was suspended from Today and yet fired pursuing the audio leak. In an apology soon aft the incident, helium said: “Obviously I’m embarrassed and ashamed. It’s nary excuse, but this happened 11 years agone — I was younger, little mature, and acted foolishly successful playing along. I’m precise sorry.” He joined Extra in 2019.