Angela Yee blasts The Breakfast Club?!
Angela Yee and DJ Envy have replied to one another via social media following criticism Yee recently made regarding The Breakfast Club.
Yee, who was chatting about leaving The Breakfast Club and about being the lone female host on the platform, claimed it was effortful working solely with males and that her workfellows didn’t give her sufficient support.
“I was the only woman who worked there, too; I mean when it came to producers, camera people—and it wasn’t an easy room for me to be in. I feel like I did need more like backup you know because even things that I felt, as a woman… somebody can’t understand your point of view because they’re not coming from where you come from. So that was hard for me too, to be the only woman there,” said Yee in an interview on The Tamron Hall Show.
Angela Yee Blasts ‘The Breakfast Club’ & DJ Envy Says She’s Capping
Envy, who was Yee’s co-host on 105.1’s The Breakfast Club for more than a decade, shared how he felt after The Shade Room’s Instagram page shared the clip of Yee’s interview.
Envy stated Yee’s remarks were “just not true.” “There are plenty of women that work behind the scenes on [The Breakfast Club],” Envy argued.
Yee then responded to Envy from her Twitter account. The illustrious broadcaster wrote, “Usually I don’t comment or go back and forth with people but there’s too much spinning. ‘In the room’ referred to the people in the studio: the producer, board op, videographer and hosts. Yes they are men. That doesn’t mean that there aren’t amazing women who are execs, salespeople, interns, and in other departments.”
She continued: “I’ve said this on many occasions: that it can be hard when your viewpoint is different based on your experience. I didn’t anticipate that this would cause such a firestorm.”
Usually I don’t comment or go back and forth with people but there’s too much spinning. “In the room” referred to the people in the studio: the producer, board op, videographer and hosts. Yes they are men. That doesn’t mean that there aren’t amazing women who are execs,
— Angela Yee (@angelayee) March 5, 2023
salespeople, interns, and in other departments. I’ve said this on many occasions: that it can be hard when your viewpoint is different based on your experience. I didn’t anticipate that this would cause such a firestorm. Everyone texting me “are you ok” (which I appreciate!) and
— Angela Yee (@angelayee) March 5, 2023
I know I don’t normally take the time to overexplain because it drags things out even more but that’s all 🤷🏽♀️
— Angela Yee (@angelayee) March 5, 2023
Envy further elaborated on what Yee spoke regarding the male-driven The Breakfast Club in a subsequent Michigan Chronicle interview (shared by The Shade Room).
“It was her, Charlamagne and myself, so she was the only woman on air. But behind the scenes, I mean, our boss – the actual person that pays our bills and pays our checks and hires us – is Thea Mitchem, who’s a woman. I think she misspoke, I think the words were taken out of I guess technicality. I’m sure she would clean it up, but there’s a lot of women who work on that show,” said Envy.
He also elaborated on the matter during a recent episode of the show.
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