Tamron Hall has denied reports that she had fired 18 staffers, leaving them hanging and replacing them with former Oprah producers. Candi Carter, a former EP of the The View, is now the EP of Hall's show — and when she was hired, she bought on a few of Oprah's former producers.
A source told the Daily Mail, “Around 20 people lost their jobs yesterday at the Tamron Hall Show. It was a giant blood bath. Tamron is living her best life on her personal Instagram while people are losing their livelihoods.”Tamron posted a video on Instagram, saying, “That story that I did not pay 20 people and fired them and left them hanging is a lie. We didn’t fire 20 people. In fact, our season was supposed to wrap June 5, I fought to have the extension of the season to June 25. My creative team was paid through the pandemic and through the extension because I wanted to keep pushing and keep putting out stories that matter to you.”
She continued, “Like any other show, like any other product, people make changes and we did — after the season had wrapped. Not during, not while. So this notion that I ran off securing bags, it’s not true. It is absolutely not and the notion that I’ve abandoned people, it’s not.” She added, “But I have a right, and every person who runs a company, owns a company, has anything that is yours, you have a right to make it better.”
Tamron also shared a letter that she wrote to her staff back in April, responding to an email where she says “an anonymous employee tried to mutiny, just wanted everybody not to come to work.” The email was sent out right around the time they started producing the show from home. She wrote, “An email sent to the staff, but not to me, has been brought to my attention. Whether you express things anonymously or face to face, we want to listen.”
She continued, “Again, I understand everyone is stressed out and feeling anxious but to say the ‘confusion on the show has run more rampant than the coronavirus’ was a gut punch that I could not ignore,” she continued. “The success of this show will never erase my humanity.”