Billy Bush Caught Making Crude Sex Joke About Kendall Jenner on Hot Mic

More than six years after his career was derailed by his involvement inTrump’s infamous Access Hollywood tapes, Additional anchor Billy Bush hasbeen caught in another hot mic moment making crass and sexually demeaningremarks.

In a video clip provided exclusively to The Daily Beast, Bush joked on-setduring a taping of Additional about Kendall Jenner’s model Toy Story-inspired Halloween costume and her attractiveness in the outfit.

“Kendall goes as Jessie and, believe me, there were a lot of woodies,” Bushsaid during the Oct. 31 taping, eliciting laughter from several productionstaffers in the room. (The Daily Beast is publishing only the audio of theincident in order to protect the anonymity of its source.)

Bush made the objectifying comment while standing in front of a large wallscreen plastered with images of female celebrities dressed in provocativeHalloween garb. Featured at the center was Jenner, the second-youngest of thefamed Kardashian/Jenner sisters, dressed up as Jessie, the free-spiritedcowgirl from the immensely popular Pixar franchise.

After looking at Jenner’s photo on the screen, Bush asked his production crewfor the name of the character. An off-screen voice informed him that the nameis Jessie, prompting Bush to toss out his crude sexual remark referencing thename of the character’s love interest, Woody, the lead protagonist of ToyStory.

“As with many forms of production in the entertainment industry, the show’screative process allows the flexibility to try different jokes and banter,” arepresentative for Telepictures, the show’s production company, said in astatement. “In the end, some material lands on the cutting room floor,including remarks that may be too edgy to air on broadcast television.” Repsfor Jenner did not respond to requests for comment.

Notably, in the final segment that aired on Oct. 31, Bush was a bit moredemure when it came to discussing female celebrities’ physical appearances.While reporting on Jenner’s costume, the Additional host only went so far asto remark that “it’s going to be hard to see Toy Story the same way everagain.”

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Additional tapes its episodes with roughly 25 people present, our source> relayed. Behind the set’s monitors are cubicles where the tabloid TV show’s> staffers sit. Along with Bush and other hosts on the set there are normally> two camera operators, hair-and-makeup staff, and production assistants> present. During taping, everyone in the newsroom can hear what Bush is> saying on-stage, the source claimed.

Bush, of course, has been down this road before. Just weeks before the 2016presidential election, The Washington Post released damning 2005 tapes ofBush and Donald Trump in an obscene and sexually charged conversation.

Before filming a segment for Access Hollywood , which Bush hosted at thetime, Trump joked on a hot mic about sexually assaulting women. With the pairaboard the program’s promotional bus, Trump lamented his inability to seduceone of Bush’s colleagues, later identified as former Access Hollywood hostNancy O’Dell.

“I did try and fuck her. She was married,” Trump said as Bush could be heardgiggling. “I moved on her like a bitch, but I couldn’t get there. And she wasmarried… Then all of a sudden I see her, she’s now got the big phony tits andeverything. She’s totally changed her look.”

Bush—a first cousin of former President George W. Bush—and the futurepresident then prepared to exit the bus when they spotted Days of Our Lives_actress Arianne Zucker, who was there to film the segment alongside Trump.(The then- _Celebrity Apprentice host was promoting his cameo appearance onthe daytime soap opera.)

“Sheesh, your girl’s hot as shit!” Bush exclaimed, essentially playing wingmanto Trump. “Yes! The Donald has scored! Whoa, my man. You gotta look at her…Give her the thumbs up. You gotta give the thumbs up… Oh my God!”

Trump, in an infamous moment that has been replayed countless times, asked forTic Tac breath mints “just in case I start kissing her,” before adding: “Whenyou’re a star, they let you do it.”

After Bush agreed that meant “anything you want,” Trump declared to laughter:“Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything.”

While Trump survived the fallout over the footage and shockingly defeatedHillary Clinton for the presidency weeks later, the same could not be said forBush, who was quickly met with intense public criticism for his enabling ofthe sexist and Boorish “locker room talk.”

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Just days after the tapes leaked, NBC suspended Bush as co-anchor of the thirdhour of the Today show—two months after he got the job. He was then oustedfrom the network a week later. (Bush, meanwhile, reportedly argued at the timethat NBC bosses “had no problem” with his previous off-color remarks aboutwomen.)

Bush went on a public apology tour in 2017 and refuted Trump’s laughable claimthat he wasn’t on the tape before finding his way back to tabloid TV in 2019when he replaced Mario Lopez as the host of Additional. (Lopezcoincidentally jumped over to Access Hollywood of all places.)

Since then, Bush has largely steered clear of negative headlines, even as hisshow has dealt with a heavy dose of drama behind the scenes along withconcerns about its very existence.

After it was announced that he’d been named the new Additional anchor, Bushspoke with The Daily Beast and expressed contrition for his conduct in the_Access Hollywood_ tape. He insisted the experience made him a better man. “Ifelt the same things [as his detractors] when I watched that,” he said inSeptember 2019. “It was a gut-punch, because I didn’t like what I saw. It’s asnapshot. It’s not the whole man… It was a bad moment in life. And I owned itand paid heavily for it.”

Bush added: “But I think I’m an improved person, because that’s what adversitydoes to a human being. These are character-building moments… I have extractedthe good out of it. I didn’t miss the opportunity.”