An Emmy-nominated TV weatherman in New York City claims he was fired after someone sent his boss leaked webcam photos.
Erick Adame worked for Spectrum News NY1. Yesterday, he wrote a lengthy post on Instagram revealing the reasons behind his termination.
He said that he was taking steps to address his “compulsive behavior”. However, he refused to apologize for being “openly gay” and “sex positive.”
He hopes that other newsrooms consider hiring him and judge him for his years of expertise as a meteorologist.
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“I have recently been terminated from my job as the meteorologist at Spectrum News NY1 in NYC. I am taking this opportunity to share my truth rather than let others control the narrative of my life,” he began.
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“My psychiatrist calls my actions ‘compulsive behavior,’ others would call them reckless, stupid or brazen. I’m not in a position to argue with any of these descriptions.”
“Despite being a public figure and being on television in the biggest market in the country in front of millions of people five days a week for more than a decade and a half, I secretly appeared on an adult webcam website,” he continued.
“On this site, I acted out my compulsive behaviors, while at home, by performing on camera for other men.”
“It was 100% consensual on both of our parts. I wasn’t paid for this, and it was absurd of me to think I could keep this private. Nonetheless, my employer found out and I was suspended and then terminated.”
“You expected and deserved better from me”
Adame went on to apologize to colleagues, family and friends “for any embarrassment or humiliation I have caused you. You expected and deserved better from me.
“I can’t take it back, and I can’t change what I did, but I am getting the professional help I need so I can make appropriate decisions that don’t affect those that I care deeply about, as well as my career, as I move forward in life.
“As a public figure I recognize I have certain responsibilities that come along with the privilege I enjoyed. But let me be clear about something: I don’t apologize for being openly gay or for being sex-positive—those are gifts and I have no shame about them.
“Right now I’m adrift in my life for the first time in many years. I had the job of my dreams and I lost it due to my own lapse in judgment. But, I’m optimistic, and perhaps naive enough to think that I can be back on television and do this again someday. After all, the odds were against me almost two decades ago as the son of working-class Mexican immigrants who was the first in the family to go to college; the first to be on television; the first to ‘make something of himself.’
Appeals to others to hire him
Adame went on to appeal to news directors across the country.
“Please judge me on the hundreds, thousands of hours of television that I am so proud of and that my employers have always commended me for, and not a couple of minutes of salacious video that is probably going to soon define me in our ‘click-bait’ culture.
“All talent is fallible, full of human foibles, and your job is not made easier by our antics. One thing I can promise is that I have learned a lesson and I will be an exemplary employee and the most informed and enthusiastic meteorologist you have ever seen.”
He thanked people for taking the time to read his words. He concluded, “Even at this horrible, humbling moment, I have nothing but love and gratitude for all of you and the world. I absolutely loved my job and being part of your day for years was an absolute honor. I have been blessed and know it and will act accordingly moving forward.”
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Adame takes legal action against webcam site
Adame has been on TV for 15 years, with the last five at Spectrum NY1.
Yesterday, in papers filed in a Manhattan court, Adame asked a judge to force the webcam site to reveal details of the user who copied his images. The Daily Beast first obtained the litigation.
The business was identified in papers only as Unit 4 Media, Ltd. The papers say that in late 2021 the anonymous user “wrongfully copied unclothed images” of Adame “by taking screenshots.”
It goes on to say the user then sent the images to Adame’s mother and employer, “with the intent of harassing, annoying, or alarming.”
Spectrum has yet to make any statement about Adame’s termination.
Vince
Well, the good news is that now you have unlimited time and new found fame to explore your “compulsion” to a much wider audience.
Yeah, the person who exposed you was a real dick. Most likely a jealous closet case. Suing the website to get the users identity seems pointless though.
not a clone
wow, soulless response
[email protected]
not soulless. a reality check. The news company has every right to protect its brand. The sex industry is still taboo. I would have started as an only fan a long time ago, but I am in the public service sector.
Vince is right. It is probably someone who he knows too…who is jealous.
Diplomat
Unfortunately we’re in a religious sex negative culture. I’d like to see the guy keep his job but as a country I think we have a long way to go to become sex positive.
ShiningSex
Sex positive sounds stupid.
It’s porn. We love it, but it is what IT IS.
Stop this PC bs of trying to make something sound prettier.
He deserved to be fired because it’s an image that the company doesn’t want. Has NOTHING to do with being gay but being a PORN STAR. End of discussion.
ZzBomb
I’m no legal expert, but this seems to be wrongful termination unless there was something explicitly stated in his contract about his outside of work behavior? Idk, anyone a lawyer?
Man About Town
I agree; it strikes me as wrongful termination. I also find his nauseatingly humble and lengthy apology to be completely unnecessary. I would’ve loved it if his public statement simply consisted of “So what if I did this? BFD!” but I guess that would jeopardize his chances for further employment.
Bengali
Not a wrongful termination. I feel for him but those in public eye know that they are more at risk for being exposed and his compulsion make him ignore the risk. Sad to see someone lose their job over this but an employer that easily prove it goes against their brand. It happens all the time, esp. in corporate world.
G R
Every on-air personality has a Morals Clause in their signed contract, he clearly violated some part (or all) of that clause. Done.
GlobeTrotter
Almost any employee that represents his/her company in any public way will have a morality clause in their work contract nowadays.
When a friend of mine got a job offer as the lead dancer/acrobat at a well known circus, he asked for my help going through the contract. The morality clause was SEVERAL PAGES long and regulated ANY AND ALL private behavior, legal or illegal, that had ANY detrimental effect on the company’s brand whatsoever, here on earth and THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE – I kid you not, that’s exactly what the contract said!
ShiningSex
A lot of companies that have a public image especially television due have such clauses. He got what he deserved. This sex positive bs is just that BS.
He’s a porn star. Accept it and focus on it. I’m sure he’ll do well.
A company doesn’t have to accept that kind of work or image that can hurt them.
His sexuality has nothing to do with his termination. He needs to stop crying and move on.
GlobeTrotter
This lawsuit is dead on arrival. The courts have repeatedly ruled that you can be terminated from employment if your behavior, even private behavior, causes public embarrassment to or tarnishes the public image of your employer. He admits this himself when he wrote “I had the job of my dreams and I lost it due to my own lapse in judgment”. He should have carefully thought about his public persona on television BEFORE committing his “lapse in judgment”. Reminds me of all those ballet dancers complaining about not finding work after doing porn. I’m not being cruel here, just factual and impartial.
Playing the identity card, i.e. informing us that he’s gay, that’s he’s the “son of working-class Mexican immigrants who was the first in the family to go to college” is a cheap attempt at manipulation.
[email protected]
agree. But he had to try….lol
RyanMBecker
Globe Trotter,
No, you’re not being “factual and impartial.” You’re being ignorant. Being “factual” means relying on facts. And the fact is that you’re clearly confused, and didn’t read carefully before getting on your judgemental pedestal.
What lawsuit are you talking about??? He’s not suing Spectrum News for wrongful termination. He’s admitted his “mistake” and its negative effect on his colleagues and others. You’d never do that if you plan on suing your former employer.
Read carefully: he’s suing the website. But not for damages or monetary compensation. He merely wants details on how the images were leaked, with hopes of revealing the culprit’s identity. The leaker clearly had a personal vendetta since the screenshots were not only sent to his employer — BUT ALSO HIS MOTHER. Wouldn’t your want to know who the culprit is, if you were in his shoes?
Now that you know how wrong you were, do you still think the lawsuit is “dead on arrival”? Unlike you, I think his chances are good since most of these sites have clauses that say images may not be shared. Furthermore, the site benefits from ridding itself of someone who might harass its members.
You may ask how Adame can catch the culprit since screenshots are captured locally. It’s actually not very hard. Most sites keep a log of IP addresses accessing the site. Since this is a closed members only forum, the site probably even has names and credit card info. Adame merely has to get a list of people watching his stream when the image was captured. Many clues on the screen capture can provide clues of the date. Or there may even be a time stamp. As a closed site, I’m betting that there were probably fewer than 20 viewers. Adame will likely recognize the culprit since it’s someone with a grudge against him.
The only issue is that giving him the list exposes other members who have nothing to do with the incident. Hence his lawsuit. Do you still think that the lawsuit is DOA? Read CAREFULLY then think about it.
RyanMBecker
Globetrotter wrote:
“Playing the identity card… is a cheap attempt at manipulation.”
Do you even know the purpose of his post? Do you think it’s just a regular social media comment? Do you think that is just one of those nauseating TMI confessionals? He’s trying to salvage his career. It’s a letter to potential employers and potential viewers, asking for their understanding and sympathy. It’s a job pre-interview so that he won’t have to explain himself to potential employers. The discussion of racial and familial background is often brought up during employment interviews since it’s part of the candidate’s experience. You may hire just for skills but I always hire the complete person. This is even truer when hiring an on-air personality where relatability to an audience is key.
Think about it.
barkomatic
I would never even known he was on a cam site had I not read about it here. I’d say the reasons for his firing are total garbage even though it probably doesn’t meet the legal definition of wrongful termination in the US.
bachy
Modern people across social media hunger for fame and have discarded privacy as a value. But this story exemplifies, for me, the downside of fame. The famous are loved and hated in almost equal measure by millions. Their lives are constantly scrutinized and dissected, and they are subject to the opinions, judgments, interference and machinations of good people, bad people, crazy people and everyone in between.
As this man has learned, someone he’s never met, on the other side of the world, has accessed the power to destroy his life. Those of us pursuing fame need to carefully examine the privacy trade-off, and find ways to maintain as much privacy as possible.
I recently encountered a very wise haiku on the subject of privacy which I wrote down and think about often:
circle small
life private
mind at peace.
Your privacy has tremendous value, and should be recognized, cherished and protected.
reallyinterrobang
Not a haiku
Kangol2
@reallyinterrobang, I wondered if anyone else would catch that. It’s haiku-esque, so I guess that’s what counts.
@bachy, haiku are 5-7-5 syllable three-line poems and should mention nature in one of the lines as well as no metaphors. But people play with the form so your version, which is memorable, essentially does the work of one.
That “life private” is one of the most difficult of all today since we’re all under various forms of surveillance and it’s only increasing.
bachy
ok Japanophiles, so it’s a bachyku.
Regardless, the sentiments still stand.
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
Its sad that being fired is what it took for you to realize the mistake you made one night. I think you should consider yourself lucky that no media is saying what website it was you were on nor have any of them revealed just how old you are. You are in a position where teenage boys are looking at the weather just like everyone else and by your actions you clearly gave your audience the middle finger and decided you were going to do what you wanted to do whether you were alone with a huge sex toy, with a horse-hung partner or just arching up and spreading so wide one could have given you a hemorrhoid exam online via webcam no longer matters now. The consequences of that fateful decision have arrived. The lawsuit alone makes you too toxic for anyone else to want to hire you to go in front of the camera and its doubtful you will ever be hired in media again because of the strong possibility of those pics showing up again and you filing another lawsuit only this time claiming harassment. Dude, considering rents in the NYC area I do hope you have substantial savings in the bank because as far as TV goes you are history..
Den
Huh? What is your point? He was not showing his webcam footage along with his forecasts, nor was he broadcasting the URL with his broadcasts. what exactly does the age of viewers have to do with this? Are you one of those right wing idiots that buy into the notion that we are all groomers (except for you i suppose in your ossified and backward mind)?
He made a mistake and is suffering for it, hopefully not forever. And as for “being history” you clearly have no idea what you are talking about. I have an old friend who was similarly a much loved forecaster who got involved in a sexting scandal. He too lost his job instantly when it was revealed. He moved to another part of the country and rebuilt his brand, it took a few years but he is fine. Not everyone takes pleasure in seeing others suffer, as you truly seem to.
Kangol2
Sister Miss Thing, really? Why did you even mention “teenage boys”? What are you insinuating? Nowadays the main people watching the weather are adults, unless kids are sitting around doing so with their parents. In fact I’d venture few under 30-35 are watching his station regularly; most people in NYC interested in knowing what the weather is probably look at their phones, watch one of the major channels with the popular weatherpeople (there are several ones in particular), or get the weather from the radio if they listen to it.
Even still, he did not “give the audience the middle finger,” he was webcamming, someone captured him and tried to use the images to destroy him, and he’s now paying the price for whatever creep did that. And I note that it’s a creep because who but a total creep would send explicit images to someone’s employer, let alone MOTHER? I think it’s probably a disgruntled ex who tried to destroy him and succeeded, at least temporarily. Given that he’s in New York I could see him getting another media job, though it probably won’t be as a weatherman.
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
Kangol2, silence is golden and this time you should have kept your mouth closed. That defense of this complete lack of good judgement is just outright pathetic. He has no defense and the best thing for him to do is look for employment elsewhere. Its best to not put yourself in a situation where people who are in power (as in have a strong saying as to where you work and how much you are paid) have to decided if they want to keep someone who bared his rear end for the world to see in sex acts they don’t particularly approve of. The ratings of that show would skyrocket for a few days were he placed back on it but the problem is what happens once people stop seeing a weatherman and see instead a person who was possible under the influence of something and decided to hookup a webcam? I’m sure the ratings would plummet. It was a business decision that I stand by.
LumpyPillows
Perhaps one of the positive things that will come with these younger generations will be the normalization that we are all sexual. They all have photos and videos floating out there. And you know what? No one should care or judge.
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
You hit the nail on the head with your comment. Just as there are no sex act videos of any fantasy that cant be found in a simple Bing or Google search there is now no age barrier limits anymore on many of the tube sites. It used to be the sites were dominated by teenage looking boys and young men but now there are senior citizens on the live sites as well. I kid you not. Grey haired fat unshapely old men are now on live camera on X-Hamster live and other such sites. Unfortunately just like this poor guy featured in the article many of them too are not taking the possible consequences of their actions seriously. If you don’t know by now how vindictive coworkers, neighbors, spurned ex-lovers and evil minded family members can be once they get hold of something like this then god help you when the day comes (too late of course) that you do.
torresrj
Erick and I went to college together. We have know each other for years. I will vouch for his character, his heart, and his spirit. He is a fantastic person. I find this absolutely ridiculous! I support him! It is no worse than 90% of the pics received or in profiles on grindr, scruff, heck eve fb dating. This is ridiculous!!! If this was a woman Spectrum would like “oh well” but because Erick is a gay man (our on going joke is he never ages), he is being wrongfully terminated. This makes me sick!
Neoprene
Yawn. Who is gonna vouch for you, victim boi?
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
Ok, since you know him tell us how old he is. What is the big secret about his age that no one wants to reveal?
Fahd
If his psychiatrists would recognize this compulsive behavior for what it is, namely sex addiction, he would have some protection under most state´s labor laws. Since alcoholism and drug addiction are recognized by psychiatrists as ¨diseases¨, alcoholics and drug addicts usually have some protection from immediate termination. Not so, sex addicts, because in the latest version of the DSM, psychiatrists decided that ¨´sex addiction¨ didn´t ¨qualify¨as a disorder. The insurance companies won. They’re not on the hook for treating sex addiction the way they are for alcoholism and drug addiction. And employers are not on the hook for treating this behavior according to a disease model. Sad!
As far as “telling his own truth and controlling his own narrative”, I’d say modeling himself after Meghan Markle is a bad idea. In the long run, it won’t be effective; don’t forget she’s married to her meal ticket so doesn’t have your worries. Good luck former Spectrum channel 1 NY weatherman!
Den
There is no such thing as sex addiction. Both drug and alcohol create metabolic changes and withdrawal symptoms. No such issue exists with compulsive sexual activity. It is entirely related to things like low self esteem and obsessive compulsive type disorders.
Kangol2
Uh, Megan Markle was a working actress before she met Prince Harry, and she’s the one who signed that lucrative podcast deal and probably ensured her husband got that hefty book contract! It wasn’t her husband the Duke who beat out Joe Rogan’s podcast to go Number 1!
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
What does Megan Markle have to do with a young histrionic weatherman showing his butt to the world or having sex with someone on camera for the world to see and whining when his employer explains to him that he no longer has a job? I don’t see the connection. Please explain further.
Fahd
@Den Wrong! There is such a thing as sex addiction, and it does create metabolic changes and withdrawal symptoms. Just like there once was a debate about whether alcoholism was a disease or not, there is an ongoing debate about whether compulsive sexual behavior, sex addiction, is better treated as a disease, rather than a failing or character weakness. So far, the insurance companies have won and the majority of psychiatrists (or the more powerful psychiatrists) have not included sexual addition as a disorder. Sufferers like the fellow here would be better off if sexual addiction were treated as a disease, because then he would be entitled to treatment (if he has insurance) and would have some protections under labor laws.
Also, I entirely agree that Harry was lucky to nab Meghan (after all, Suits, etc.), and as with the weatherman here, Megan’s own truth and narrative are controlled by her, herself and no one else. For comment readers who have made it this far, I have intended the previous run-on sentence to be sarcastic.
GlobeTrotter
@Fahd: Den’s right on this one, in mental health circles sex addiction is not recognized or treated as a disease, but rather as a behavioral issue related to low self-esteem (sex as validation). I’m not aware of any proof of metabolic changes or withdrawal symptoms related to sex addiction.
Fact is, drug and alcohol abuse/withdrawal will cause chemical changes to the body that have to be dealt with. Not so with sex addition.
Fahd
@Globetrotter. Wrong. It is a debated issue and the insurance companies have spent alot to keep sex addiction off the DSM list of disorders. People can research the issue for themselves if they wish.
GlobeTrotter
Well, you’re certainly entitled to your own beliefs, but that doesn’t make them fact or reality. The fact is, sex addiction is NOT recognized by mental health specialists as a disease. There are no debates and this has nothing to do with insurance companies. Sex addiction simply does not meet the criteria.
tjack47
I also wish he hadn’t apologized. No one should be fired for legal behavior. It’s none of their business. If he wasn’t going to apologize for being gay or sex positive, I wish he hadn’t apologized at all. It’s high time we stop this “presentism” where someone today is punished for behavior in the past. It’s perfectly legal to do as you wish on webcam. Just think of all the people with onlyfans accounts, etc. I’m not ashamed of sexting I’ve done with consenting adults. I was mortified when I sent a pic accidentally to my brother who’s gay too. We laughed it off for f*ck sake and went on with our lives. He needs our support, but guilt by association causes all sorts of problems. Have a spine jellyfish.
GlobeTrotter
You’re confusing a lot of different themes here. He wasn’t terminated for legal behavior in the privacy of his own home. Millions of people do all sorts of sex acts, even extreme sex acts, in the privacy of their homes and are not terminated as a result.
He was terminated for damaging his employer’s brand, a completely different thing altogether. You can damage your employer’s brand in any number of ways, it doesn’t have to be sexual. I know of one instance where a counselor in a refugee care center was fired after social media posts of hers came to light in which she expressed her hatred of refugees.
Private and legal behavior that damages your employer’s brand = instant termination!
Doug
I totally agree with both of you.
missvamp
i hope he moves on from this. he deserves to have a life, despite being a freak online. we all deserve to be who we are, without shame. so what if he’s kinky? yes, he should have kept that offline or made sure to never show his face. but damn, when you’re a public figure, you have to follow different rules. but i’m guessing part of the thrill was the risk. that’s probably why he was in therapy.
rray63
I don’t know but it seems that companies like the news company he worked for used to put in the contract, “moral turpitude” clauses. I guess we would have to ask a lawyer or a court that would still enforce something like that. Or if the company released that pertinent section of his contract.
[email protected]
what is his username for the cam site? Mexican men are beautiful!
Den
“The news company has every right to protect its brand. The sex industry is still taboo”
Troll much?
fur_hunter
….. I was fired for being gay back in 1981 in Georgia. Yeah. It was a right-to-work state at the time and they could fire you for any reason they wanted with no consequences. But Karma hit. Because I had worked for the company for over 10 years, I was vested and I was eligible for a pension when I retired. What can I say? HEHEHEHEH AHHAHAH HHEHEHEHEHHE AHHAHAHAHAH
Woteva
Oh, dear. What is the world coming to? You can’t even go on camera on a website that’s available to anyone around the world and play with yourself without someone taking screen shots (or worse, copying the streaming video) and re-posting it elsewhere. I wonder if this has ever happened before? Only EVERY day!
Move on, nothing to see, here.
bachy
Who’da thunk that if you bare your ass to 30,000 anonymous online masturbators that one of them might use the image for nefarious purposes?
bakeembakeem
This is the brutal reality of living our authentic life. You, me, and multiple others all have multiple loose threads in our past, regardless of being a dishwasher or meteorologist. I am very sorry that some punkass stepped out of their completely miserable existence to harm you, I often tell friends, stop giving your whole verbal life to some one-night stand, and in some cases a lover/partner
justyouandi
Where can those screen-shots be found?
Neoprene
What a narcissist. Gotta kick outta her playing the mental health card though. Too funny. She’s got pretty privilege so just a minor bump in the road for her.
abfab
And you don’t have ”pretty privilege”, because anyone can see that you are ugly. And you’re as DUMB as a ”bump in the road” so be gone and STFU.
Where do you come up with these lame remarks?
Neoprene
abflab – Settle down, girl. What part of what I wrote isn’t true, sugar?
johncp56
Hi I saw this on DailyBlast today, funny why can we fire some of those morons in congress with the shit out of there mouths, this guy has nude pics from before and a creep releases them, has nothing to do with his work, and he is let go, it should be the creep that released the pics that needs some shaming, or better yet sued, I hope he gets a better job, form this,
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
He would have a better argument had he done this before he was hired. Once hired and on TV everyday he should have known by now the standards that he was bound to uphold. He said to hell with the company standards and the company responded by saying to hell with him. As he now knows no orgasm is worth you not being able to pay rent/mortgage.
ImSoRich
I’m thinking that if you have to “act out” your compulsive behavior, is wearing a head mask (they are abundant) too much to ask? Protect your identity, from all the evil closet queens………..
chat fisher
Well I now have good reason to cancel my service with Spectrum.
abfab
If this were one of those BLONDE BIMBO weatherwomen we would not be having this stimulating conversation.
Rugby8
Erick –
So sorry to hear this Happened!!!! It’s absolutely ridiculous for them to get away with firing you.
So sorry this happened to you
ShiningSex
Sex positive? Girl…..shut up!
I’d fire you too. An image of company can be at stake due to such SIDE activities of someone who is in the spotlight. Accept it and focus on your sex positive life.
It is what it is. Stop crying and move on. You do PORN!!!!
abfab
It is what it is? Is that old cliche all you got? You’re giving up when you say that.
GlobeTrotter
“An image of company can be at stake due to such SIDE activities of someone who is in the spotlight.”
Not to mention exposing the company and its employees to blackmail, which brings on a criminal investigation, which brings jail time, which tanks the company’s stock, which means a round of lay-offs. Far better to terminate an embarrassing employee now, than having to deal with all the above consequences.
elvmn12000
All this bickering I had to scrolling through… I just want to see his Picture/Video ?
SFMike
Me too.
ta2t2o
Meanwhile Jeffrey Toobin gets caught jerking of on a non-consensual Zoom call and keeps his job.
GlobeTrotter
That’s completely different. That was an ACCIDENT, not something he knowingly or purposefully did. A suspension is all that’s warranted, which is exactly what his employer did.
abfab
All will be forgiven and another news outlet will hire him. He just needs to hang tight and be good. This too shall pass.
SFMike
Talking about and apologizing for your “compulsive behavior” is not being gay and proud. It’s just making the male sex drive whether hetero or homo seem like something to be ashamed of. Men are always being pushed to hate their sex drive and not being the docile innocent victims’ women often portray themselves to be. This guy needs a gay therapist that is sex positive and not into shaming patients for normal sexual drives.
abfab
Oh this is rich.
“Men are always being pushed to hate their sex drive……” By who?
Thad
Haven’t there been other TV weathermen who have done porn…usually after their career? I think Steven Lee was a weatherman in Beaumont, TX. And there was a weatherman from Chicago who did the daytime talk shows…let me remember…
abfab
Oh yes, Al Roker and Williard Scott were the first on the interracial porn scene at the Glory Holes in DC.
Thad
Steven Marks from Chi. ..sigh. And Jim Walker became daddy Dallas Steele for gay porn.
humble charlie
does he do sex better than he does weather? his buttcheeks were like hail the size of canned hams descending upon your head.
time4
Wow, look at all of these people sitting in judgement!
Truth be told, how many of you folks condemning his actions are yourselves, watching internet porn? My guess would be that you all live in glass houses, so you should not be throwing stones.
The man, because of his visibility in public, has been dismissed from his work. He had a lapse in judgement when he went on an internet site and decided to act out a fantasy or a personal sexual urge. The act is really of no consequence except in this religiously fanatical, christo-facist USA. England shipped it’s religious nuts to the US centuries ago and we have been all the worse for that. He harmed no one.
I don’t think a person who exposed himself to an adult internet following did anything wrong morally. The evil here is the person who decided to do him harm in the most ugly way possible. This is the person that should be “outed” as the sicko he or she is. Sad, disturbed behavior to want to do this to someone and that is where your scorn should be directed.
How many stories I have read in the news where a person does a criminal act and remains in his or her job and this poor guy waves his weenie to an adult audience while signed into an adult website and he loses his job. Non stop sexual harassment accusations at media giants and most of the accused remain in place. What’s wrong with this picture? How has he harmed society? Think about that.
If his sexual drive is close to what mine was at that age, I understand completely. I was always extremely oversexed by every standard I observed in others and I acted in ways that surprised even me but I truly had almost no control over the hormones that were dictating my behavior. I was literally insatiable. I had to behave as best I could because I too had a position that would never have tolerated any adverse sexual “notoriety” for public consumption. My difference was that I fiercely guarded my activities with the utmost discretion and secrecy. This is a different time now with cell phones/cameras, HD video capabilities, “only fans” sites and the like and the mindset of the young folks who don’t suffer from the Puritanical thinking of the older generation.
In the US, there is little to no sex education, parents are not well educated in some cases, children are not taught to be proud of their bodies. Most parents won’t discuss sex or explain sexual urges and generally project shame and disgust at displays of sex or even questions about sex from children. Sex is a natural part of human behavior but here it is shrouded in shame. Look how republicans are targeting the LGBQTA people and fomenting hysteria. Sick.
We don’t know this man or his sexual makeup and we should not be so ready to judge and condemn. I feel sorry for him because based on his accolades and awards, he is a good weatherman. His impulsive action was not well thought out given the number of ignorant, disturbed trolls out here. He clearly acted in the moment without thinking of the possible consequences. If he lived in Europe or Scandinavia, this would not have even caused a hiccup. They’re well educated and comfortable about sexuality.
He made a mistake, hire him again and move on.
GlobeTrotter
As many of us have painstakingly pointed out, he was NOT fired for his sexuality or for living out a fantasy. No one really cares what he chooses to do in the privacy of his own home. Millions of people do exactly that and never get terminated for doing so.
He was fired for DAMAGING HIS EMPLOYER’S BRAND! Whether he did so via sexual activity, or theft, or public hate speech doesn’t matter. Once your behavior damages your employer’s brand or public image, then your employer is LEGALLY justified in terminating your employment.
Furthermore, any TV station would be mad to hire him as a weatherman. It would not sit well with advertisers to have millions of TV viewers commenting on social media on the extreme contents of his sex video every time he makes a weather forecast.
henare
The thing about this… Spectrum already does a shit job managing their own reputation (you know, by treating their customers reasonably). I can’t imagine that whatever this dude was doing was, magically, worse than their customer service.
michael_bates
Today’s sex positive culture in youth has become almost cringeworthy on some of these adult sites, I feel like a prude when I see some photos on sites of individuals who bare all ( I always thought Rosebud was a sleigh) and I think don’t they know about putting it all out there … Once you enter it is no longer yours.
This gentleman could learn a lot from Jerry Pennacolli who was a former news anchor in Philadelphia back in the 1980’s , then a vicious rumor on his sexuality went through the city like a COVID breakout in a nursing home. Pennacolli disappeared from the television market and low and behold in the mid 1990’s he began new career on EXTRA and was on that show for close to twenty years.
This gentleman made a common mistake that many people seem to forget , once on the internet it’s out there for all the world to see. He is a good looking guy who will find a job somewhere … right now he is the poster boy for the dangers of revenge porn.
GlobeTrotter
“Today’s sex positive culture in youth has become almost cringeworthy on some of these adult sites”
Actually, I’ve had the exact opposite experience. I used to work a lot with young people (18 to 26) and I was surprised how little interest this generation seems to have in sex. When I was in high school in the 90’s, sex was all I and my friends could think about. I don’t know about you guys, but I when my hormones were raging I used to skip school to go cruising and make dates with older guys on BBS sites (remember those?). The kids I worked with however seemed to have very little interest in sex. They’ve seen it all, know it all, had very little curiosity and just seemed bored whenever the topic of sex came up. I also remember seeing a statistic the other day that said teenagers nowadays are having a lot less sex than their peers in the past.
jackscott
He was a public figure, therefore, the company does have a right to indicate what they feel is on brand. Plus, if he signed a contract that indicates the company can terminate if he violates the rule, he should have been more careful. However, he now can start Only Fans, JFF, etc. profiles. I’m not fond of the “compulsion” idea, maybe he needs a new therapist. Plus, “sex positive” should only be used by poz guys (don’t know his status, so maybe it is ok)… just call it like it is… he was horny and liked showing off… seems perfect for porn… no judgement, get paid to explore your sexy side!
Juanito malo
It isn’t as if every human has already seen a naked man. The USA is rapidly descending into a banana republic..It’s time the country grew up.