“Sex and the City” star Kristin Davis mentioned former Fox Information host Invoice O’Reilly as soon as supplied her some assist she didn’t need.
The actor divulged earlier this week that she bumped into O’Reilly at an occasion whereas her present was nonetheless on air, and the conservative commentator expressed outrage at its creator.
“He said, ‘If I ever see Darren Star, I’m gonna punch him in the face,’” Davis recalled throughout Monday’s episode of her “Are You a Charlotte?” podcast. “I was just like, ‘What’s happening?’ And he goes, ‘I can’t believe what he makes you guys do.’”
“I was like, you know, ‘We really love our show,’” she continued. “Like, ‘We’re fine.’”
“He was, like, aggressively critical,” she added.
“That’s such a microcosm of culture though,” mentioned her visitor, web character Blakely Thornton. “Like a crazy misogynist … verbally assaulting you about how they’re going to help you, and you’re like, ‘I’m good.’”
“I know!” Davis mentioned. “And then, like, what happens with him happens with him.”
“Sex and the City” aired weekly on HBO from 1998 to 2004 and chronicled the friendships and intercourse lives of 4 ladies residing in New York Metropolis. It depicted their romantic encounters and relationships with coronary heart, humor and no scarcity of nudity.
“The O’Reilly Factor” premiered the identical day Fox Information was launched as a community on Oct. 7, 1996, and aired nightly till April 2017, when the New York Occasions reported $13 million had been paid out to quite a few ladies who accused O’Reilly of sexual misconduct or different inappropriate conduct.
Greater than half of the advertisers rapidly jumped ship, prompting the present’s cancellation.
In October 2017, the New York Occasions reported he had paid former Fox Information analyst Lis Wiehl $32 million to settle a sexual harassment case.
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Wiehl claimed on the time that that they had a nonconsensual sexual relationship, throughout which O’Reilly repeatedly harassed and shared sexually specific materials together with her. The previous Fox Information pundit has since began a podcast known as “No Spin News.”
Davis solely recalled the weird encounter with O’Reilly after her visitor, Thornton, remembered seeing “some white male pundit” within the late 90s or 2000 criticizing the “Sex and the City” forged and “actively calling you guys whores.”
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“Was it Bill O’Reilly?” Davis requested.
The present went on to win seven of the 54 Emmys it was nominated for, and never solely spawned two film installments however a followup sequel sequence titled “And Just Like That…” in 2021 that’s on monitor for a 3rd season later this yr.
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