Current and former employees of The Kelly Clarkson Show are calling the set "toxic" in a new report published by Rolling Stone. The magazine spoke with nearly a dozen employees who say producers made working on the show a nightmare. Is Kelly's show set to experience the same fate the Ellen DeGeneres talk show did after a similar set of complaints?
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The shocking new report blows the lid off the alleged horrible working conditions.
On Friday, complaints from employees of the daytime talk show hit the internet, highlighting low salaries, unreasonable expectations, and the workplace trauma they say they faced at the hands of the show's producers.
"I remember going up on the roof of the stage to cry being like, 'Oh my gosh, what am I doing? Why am I putting myself through this,'" a former staffer recalled.
Many former employees say they were forced to take second jobs to supplement their low incomes.
Some of the anonymous insiders who spoke to the magazine claimed that they needed to turn to gig work like driving for Uber Eats, dog walking, and babysitting to make ends meet, thanks to their allegedly low salaries.
Given the success of Kelly's show, it seems like staff should've been well compensated, but employees tell Rolling Stone that couldn't be further from the truth.
Some accused the show's executive producer of keeping their unhappiness a secret.
"I think Alex Duda's a monster," one person said of the producer, claiming that Alex had cursed people out on stage. "I have a friend who's an executive producer who warned me about taking this job because apparently she has done this on every show she's worked on."
If true, that sounds like an awful place to work.
People had nothing but good things to say about Kelly herself.
Unlike the damning allegations made about Ellen DeGeneres in July 2020, the people who spoke out against working conditions on Kelly's show actually praised the host.
One staffer said Kelly has "no clue how unhappy" the employees are while another said that she's "fantastic" to be around. That's a huge relief for fans who may have worried that the mother of two was secretly a monster to her employees.
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Kelly's show has been on air since 2019.
It seems several publications have already contacted NBC Universal for a response to the report, with the organization largely saying that it takes any and all complaints "very seriously."
Hopefully Kelly addresses these claims soon. We'd hate to see her show shuttered like Ellen's was after staffers complained about working conditions.
