By N.S.
"Fred Savage fired from Wonder Years' reboot after misconduct investigation
"The decision was made to terminate his employment as an executive producer and director of Wonder Years," a spokesperson for 20th Television said in a statement.
https://pagesix.com/2022/05/06/fred-savage-fired-from-wonder-years-after-misconduct-investigation/
Savage was on the nig show?How insulting.
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It was originally his show, 30-odd years ago.
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ReplyDeleteFrom what I've read the original Wonder Years was cancelled at least in part because of accusations of sexual harassment against Fred Savage, and Jason Hervy, who played his older brother. A costume designer named Monique Long alleged that Fred and Jason verbally and physically harassed her daily, according to her, Fred and Jason made sexual and lewd comments toward her and Fred said he was in love with her and would ask her out over and over, plus he tried to hold her hand. In 2018, costumer Youngjoo Hwang filed a lawsuit against Savage claiming that he “berated her, struck her arm and behaved aggressively toward female employees”. According to her, he smacked her hand away when she tried to brush something off his outfit and had a habit of using profanity and abusive language in front of women. Fox backed him up on the 2nd allegation, determining after an investigation that there was no evidence of inappropriate conduct.
There aren't any details about the misconduct allegation on the set of the Wonder Years reboot anyplace I can find but I wonder how much being a White guy played into this. A near all black cast, "diverse" behind the scenes support crew and it's one of the token White men that gets hit with misconduct allegations? Were they watching him like a hawk hoping to catch him doing the slightest bit thing untoward? Then they could dump the "harassing White guy on a show filled with all black saints. I'd be curious to know the details about what really happened, if they ever come out.