Billy Bush returns to TV three years after Access Hollywood tape scandal

Published September 10, 2019 12:23pm ET



Television host, Billy Bush is set to make his return to television tonight after a three-year hiatus following his 2016 termination from Today. Bush was fired from the NBC morning show in 2016 after a recorded conversation between Bush and Donald Trump during a 2005 taping of Access Hollywood revealed lewd remarks about women.

Bush, 47, was a longtime host of Access Hollywood and Access Hollywood Live appearing as either a host or co-host from 2001 to 2016. The recording of Trump, from the set of Days of Our Lives, captured the future president suggesting that his celebrity status granted him special access to beautiful women. “I better use some Tic Tacs just in case I start kissing her,” Trump said to Bush, possibly unaware that he was being recorded. “You know, I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.”

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