Nick Cannon is still feeling the heat after making anti-Semitic comments during an exchange with former Public Enemy member Professor Griff on the June 30 episode of his “Cannon Class” podcast.
The public fallout was swift and harsh as ViacomCBS severed longstanding ties with the comedian, taking millions of dollars in revenue with them.
Cannon’s bank account took another hit as his daytime talk show, The Nick Cannon Show, has gone on hiatus and his radio show on Power 106, Nick Cannon Mornings, is temporarily suspended.
The talk show, which was scheduled to premiere later this year, is pushed to 2021, the show’s producer, Lionsgate-owned Debmar-Mercury, confirmed in a statement obtained by Variety.com.
The production company said it is “standing by” Cannon, as did Fox TV, which said it is keeping him on as the MC of The Masked Singer — for now.
Debmar-Mercury stated Cannon could redeem himself by meeting “with leaders of the Jewish community”.
On Monday, Cannon visited the Simon Wiesenthal Center and Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, where he learned about the Holocaust and the millions of Jews who lost their lives in the Nazi concentration camps.
The father-of-three pledged his first paycheck from The Masked Singer to the Jewish center to continue its work.
Cannon, 39, once known as one of the most powerful media personalities in America, was so despondent over his derailed career that he wrote a series of cryptic social media posts that sounded very much like suicide notes.
In the caption of a photo of himself and rapper Ryan Bowers, who took his own life, Cannon wrote:
“After waking up and barely rising from my own dark contemplation of continuing my physical existence on this planet, this powerful warrior actually had the balls to do it.”
In an early morning tweet on July 17, he wrote: “I thought it couldn’t get any worse. Then I watched my own community turn on me and call me a sell-out for apologizing. Goodnight. Enjoy Earth.”
He followed up by tweeting, “Y’all can have this planet. I’m out!”
Cannon has been “counseled” by Jewish manager Guy Oseary, whose celebrity clients include Madonna and U2, according to Variety.
