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Former Tonight Show staffers are upset Jimmy Fallon hasn't publicly addressed his toxic workplace scandal


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"In his first show back following the writers’ strike on Monday, Jimmy Fallon didn’t address allegations about The Tonight Show’s workplace environment published in a Rolling Stone investigation from September," says Rolling Stone’s Kristie Lee Yandoli, who reported on Fallon's alleged toxic workplace. "Fallon privately apologized to current staffers in a Zoom meeting on the same day the investigation was published, but former employees who spoke to Rolling Stone now say they’re disappointed the talk show host has not publicly addressed the workplace allegations in any way. Fallon’s internal message wasn’t directed toward them, they say, and as long as he doesn’t publicly apologize to former staffers they say they don’t feel seen or heard." As one Tonight Show alum put it: “I don’t know what the full apology was like because I wasn’t there, so it’s great if people who still work there got some closure out of it but as someone who was not spoken to it’s hard for me to feel like there’s any closure. Would I have loved that apology to some extent, whether it be from NBC or Jimmy directly, have gotten to former staff? Yes. I would think that that would be the most accountable and responsible thing to do, especially when you consider the turnover that has happened since The Tonight Show started and so many people who spoke up no longer work at the show.”

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