Billy Bush Kendall Jenner.Photo: Paul Archuleta/Getty; Daniele Venturelli/WireImage
The 51-year-old host was standing in front of a wall screen that showed photos of different female celebrities dressed in Halloween costumes, according to the Daily Beast, which obtained the audio.
In the middle of the collage of celebrities is Jenner, 27, dressed as Jesse, the main female character in theToy Storymovie franchise. In the recording, Bush asks the people in the room for the name of the character. After someone tells him, he responds.
“Kendall goes as Jessie and, believe me, there were a lot of woodies,” Bush said to the crew in the room, making a crude joke about the other lead character, Woody, and getting laughter in response.
A rep for Bush did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
Telepictures defended the host saying it was edgy banter part of the creative process.
“As with many forms of production in the entertainment industry, the show’s creative process allows the flexibility to try different jokes and banter,” said a rep from Telepictures, the show’s production company, in a statement to PEOPLE.
“In the end, some material lands on the cutting room floor, including remarks that may be too edgy to air on broadcast television,” the statement ends.
Billy Bush.Frazer Harrison/Getty
The comment about Jenner comes more than six years after the hot mic’d conversation he had withDonald Trumpsurfaced.
While Trump went on to become president, Bush struggled to find work for some time and his marriage of more than two decades also crumbled.
Bush later publicly acknowledged the harm he did, telling PEOPLE in 2018, he has to live with what he did that day.
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“I was ashamed and embarrassed,” he said. “And then I went through stages of grieving because I lost my career. For a man, that’s the ultimate degradation.”
Bush did find work again,joining Fox’sExtraas hostin 2019.
source: people.com
