Without saying Trump’s name, O’Dell, the mother of a 9 year old, had a message about the culture of objectification, and her hope for young girls.
On Friday, “Entertainment Tonight” host Nancy O’Dell inedvertently found herself thrust into the Presidential campaign when a 2005 tape was leaked to The Washington Post. The video featured audio of Donald Trump and O’Dell’s former Access Hollywood co-star Billy Bush making lewd remarks about her, women in general, and Trump’s approach to women he found attractive. (His ‘approach,’ he noted, was essentially forcing himself upon them.)
If you don’t know the story, then where have you been exactly? Okay. sorry. heres the link to The Washington Post on Friday.
While O’Dell did issue a written statement, her Monday appearance on Entertainment Tonight, her first since the story broke, called for at least some acknowledgement of it.
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The show, which usually starts with its iconic theme song and blasts into the entertainment stories of the day, began uncharacterisitcally quitely, without music, and a stoic O’Dell, explaining that the tape “has thrown me in the middle of the political arena, of which I didn’t ask to be a part.”
The full video response is below, but the host made note that “there is no room for objectification of women, or anyone for that matter, not even in the locker room. The conversation has got to change because everybody deserves respect no matter the gender or setting.”
The mother of a nine year old daughter, she continued more passionately: “And as a mom, well I have to add that our kids, especially our young girls, need to know that their hard work, their achievements, their intelligence, their heart, are most important, and those things will not go unnoticed.”
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