Steve Harvey Defends Ellen Amid Show Scandal: She’s ‘One Of The Kindest People In Business’
Steve Harvey is the latest celebrity to speak out in support of Ellen Degeneres amid a very public scandal involving toxic workplace accusations against her popular daytime show.
During his appearance on PEOPLE TV, the 63-year-old detailed how long he’s known DeGeneres, noting that she’s “one of the coolest and kindest people I’ve met in this business: “I’m going to say this about it: Ellen DeGeneres, the person that I know, that I’ve known for a number of years, that I saw back in the comedy club days when we used to split time with the same management, all of this and what’s happening now, Ellen, the person, is probably one of the coolest and kindest people I’ve met in this business,” Harvey said in an interview with People.
Despite being called “mean” and being accused of creating a toxic workplace by former Ellen DeGeneres Show staffers, Harvey said that these problems should not fall on her shoulders: “People want to take something and make something out of everything,” he said. “[Ellen] has no control over what every staff member does, what every producer does, you can’t control that. You don’t even know some of the stuff that’s happening.”
However, he agreed that because “it’s her name that’s on the show” she had to “take the hit.” Harvey said he would do the same on his own talk show. Aside from that, the “Family Feud” host said he doesn’t believe DeGeneres, 62, has a “racist tendency.”
“I’m a 63-year-old Black man. I’ve been Black the entire time. I ain’t took no days off. I ain’t experimented with nothing else. I ain’t got nothing else going. I’ve been a Black dude my whole life. I know racism. If I have a conversation with you, I know if you got racist tendency somewhere in you, because it radiates. I can feel it. I’ve been around a long time, man. That’s not Ellen DeGeneres. That’s just not her, period,” he reiterated.
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