Days after Charlie Walk was accused of sexual harassment, he is out of the two jobs. According to Rolling Stone he was placed on leave from Republic Records during the investigation. They label said, “Republic Records is committed to a safe workplace environment where employees are treated fairly and respectfully,” and because of that they hired an outside law firm to do the investigation.
Then hours later, his lawyer issued a statement about his role on Fox’s music competition show, The Four, with Diddy, Meghan Trainor and DJ Khaled. Attorney, Patricia Glaser, gave this statement to the magazine, “Out of respect for the contestants, my fellow judges and everyone involved with the show, I have made the decision not to attend the finale of The Four,” Walk said. “I do not want my presence to be a distraction. Needless to say this is very upsetting. Although I continue to support the ‘Me Too’ movement, there has been an extreme rush to judgment against me in this particular case which is unfair and inconsistent with anything that even actually happened. I welcome any investigation so that in short order these unfounded and hurtful accusations can be put to rest.”
The accusations come from Tristan Coopersmith, who said that he made that vulgar comments to her and inappropriately touched her when she worked for him.
When it comes to Fox, he will be part of tonight’s pretaped episode, but will not be part of next week’s live season finale. They have yet to announce a replacement, but I say they just go with host Fergie, who has been there since day one. That and she has been doing music longer than most of the contestants have been alive, so she knows her stuff.
