BBC journalist Justin Webb said Monday that his interview with Kelsey Grammer was cut short by Paramount+’s PR team after the Frasier star reiterated his support for former President Donald Trump.
Grammer has been doing the publicity rounds to promote the rebooted Frasier, which is being carried by Paramount+.
In the interview with Webb, which was broadcast on BBC Radio 4’s Today show, Grammer spoke about how Roseanne Barr – one of Trump’s most vocal supporters in Hollywood – influenced his decision to play Dr. Frasier Crane once again, as she resurrected the role of Roseanne in 2018.
The reference to Barr, who’s appeared on the campaign trail with Trump recently, led Webb to ask Grammer if he still supported the ex-president.
‘I am. And I’ll let that be the end of it,’ Grammer replied.
Frasier star Kelsey Grammer (left) said this week that he still supports former President Donald Trump (right), with the BBC interviewer saying their conversation was cut short by Paramount+’s PR team after he asked the actor about the ex-president
The BBC’s Justin Webb said Monday on BBC Radio 4’s Today show that the Paramount+ PR team stopped his interview with Frasier star Kelsey Grammer after Grammer said he still supporter former President Donald Trump
Webb went on to say that there was more to that story.
‘I have to say, actually, Kelsey Grammer himself was perfectly happy to go on talking about it,’ Webb said as the interview concluded. ‘The Paramount+ PR people, less happy that he talked about it at some length.’
Webb joked that they were ‘really thrilled’ he had brought it up.
‘Anyway they decided we’d had plenty of time for our interview,’ he said.
‘But I should stress that he was perfectly happy to talk about why he supports Donald Trump and still does in the coming election,’ Webb added.
Paramount+’s PR team did not immediately respond to DailyMail.com’s request for comment.
Grammer openly supported Trump while he was in office.
Comedian Roseanne Barr appeared at a Florida campaign rally for former President Donald Trump last month. Grammer was discussing Barr’s influence on his decision to do the Frasier reboot, when BBC’s Justin Webb asked him if he still supported the ex-president
In 2019, for example, Grammer told Christiane Amanpour in a PBS interview that he was happy that Trump was a disruptor.
‘I don’t think Washington did us any favors for the last 50, 60 years, I think they’ve all been sort of the same party, the same bunch of clowns, the same bunch of really unpleasant people,’ the actor said. ‘And I don’t think they’ve been helping anybody but themselves.’
A number of Trump supporters have been less enthusiastic about the Republican in the aftermath of him spouting the so-called ‘big lie’ – denying that he lost the 2020 election – and the January 6 Capitol attack.
With his BBC interview and with her recent campaign appearances, Grammer and Barr have indicated they’re still Trump supporters.
Grammer’s Fraiser ran from 1993 through 2004 and came back on TV in October.
As for Barr, her Roseanne reboot was shortlived.
In May 2018, Barr tweeted a racist comment about former President Barack Obama’s longtime adviser Valerie Jarrett.
Barr said that Jarrett was as if the ‘muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby.’
Jarrett is black and was born in Iran.
The planned second season of the rebooted Roseanne was canceled.
Barr later apologized to Jarrett and to ‘all Americans … for making a bad joke about her politics and her looks.’