According to reports, Union and Julianne Hough have been dropped as “America’s Got Talent” judges after a single season. Union, who is African American, reportedly sought network action to address a workplace environment that allegedly allowed racist jokes and comments and other troubling behavior, including judge-producer Simon Cowell’s smoking indoors in violation of state law. ADADUnion’s husband, former NBA player Dwyane Wade, also weighed in Wednesday on Twitter, saying he’d yet to hear a good reason why his wife was being fired. NBC and the producers take any issues on set seriously,” the companies said. ADAmong the celebrities who have rallied publicly behind Union are “Grey’s Anatomy” star Ellen Pompeo, Holly Robinson Peete and Patricia Arquette.

Source: Washington Post November 29, 2019 19:20 UTC