NBC execs held crisis meetings days ago to discuss “The Voice” coach Snoop Dogg’s fate.
Snoop Dogg, 53, was set to return as a coach for Season 28 of NBC’s “The Voice,” but the show’s producers went into damage control mode when he complained about a lesbian scene in Disney’s “Lightyear” movie.
Snoop made the controversial comments during a recent appearance on a podcast. He recalled taking his grandson to see Lightyear.
“Keke Palmer is in that movie. So we watching it, then she had a baby with a woman. Why my grandson, in the middle of the movie like, ‘Papa Snoop, how she have a baby with a woman? She a woman.'”
“Oh s–t. I didn’t come here for this s–t!” Snoop said. “I just came to watch the g– d– movie! Hey, man, watch the movie!”
“They’re putting it everywhere!” Snoop continued. “I’m like, scared to go to the movies. Y’all throwing me in the middle of sh-t that I don’t have an answer for.”
The podcast has since removed Snoop’s comments, according to Page Six.
Snoop Dogg says he’s ‘scared to go to the movies’ after taking his grandson to watch the new Toy Story spin-off 'Lightyear,' which featured a same-sex couple kissing:
"They’re putting it everywhere… These are kids"
— My Mixtapez (@mymixtapez) August 25, 2025
The backlash was swift on social media. Gay icon Billy Porter said, “Don’t worry about the gays. Worry about explaining your criminal past and cooning for Trump to your grandson!”
Pixar writer Lauren Gunderson said on Threads: “He sucks!”
Gunderson was “bummed” over Snoop’s choice of words. “Hopefully he joins the side of Love,” she added.
“This is the exact kind of conversation [the execs at NBC] didn’t want to be sucked into,” a production insider told The-Sun UK newspaper.
“Production had to remind him that he works for an inclusive, apolitical, family-friendly show, and comments like this only go on to create a divisive environment. The show does not condone the comments whatsoever…”
“And it just makes contestants and even some crew members not feel like the set is a safe space since they have all different kinds of people part of making this show come to life.”
The Voice producers reportedly fired Snoop Dogg ahead of the Season 28 premiere on September 22.
“Mutually, everyone agrees this isn’t the best gig for him,” the production source told The-Sun.
