Scott Baio Is Mad About This Week’s ‘Gutfeld’
Don’t get Scott Baio wrong — he loves Greg Gutfeld. “I’m a big fan,” he said on his YouTube VLOG (ALL CAPS his) this week. He also digs Adam Hunter, a comedian who guested on Gutfeld’s show this week. “He’s almost part of our family,” Baio said. “He has a wonderful wife and daughter. We love him.”
But another one of Gutfeld’s frequent guests went too far on the show earlier this week. Tyrus — perhaps the world’s only professional wrestler/Fox News contributor — threw in a few stray thoughts about the Zapped star.
The rassler’s words were “a really cheap shot at me,” explained Baio, the Charles in Charge actor accused by co-star Nicole Eggert of molesting her when she was 14. “It was really unwarranted. … He didn’t know if I was alive or dead.”
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Baio, who was accused of verbal and physical abuse by another Charles in Charge costar, Alexander Polinsky, let Tyrus know that he’s been a titan of the entertainment business since he was nine. He’s starred on maybe seven TV shows, acted in a bunch of movies, and did fine work as a director on The New Lassie.
Baio still had a TV show until 2016, he said. “You know what happened in 2016? I spoke for President Trump the first night of the Republican Convention in Cleveland. And what do you think happened after that? I got canceled.”
Coincidentally, Baio’s “cancellation” occurred at about the same time that his co-stars’ allegations hit talk shows and tabloids. But those scandals apparently had nothing to do with Baio becoming showbiz poison. “The reason I got canceled,” he explained, “is because I spoke for Trump. And the reason I did it was because I want my daughter, who I love, to grow up in the country I grew up in.”
Baio claimed both he and his daughter received death threats due to his appearance for Trump, which made Tyrus’ confusion about Baio’s living-or-dead status hurtful. “That’s kinda where I’ve been for the past nine years,” said the visibly angry star of Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2. “I’ve done some work in between that, stuff with friends, but I’ve had the privilege and been blessed that I don’t have to do a damn thing. So that’s where I’ve been.”
What does Tyrus, a man who has also been accused of sexual harassment by Fox Nation and Un-PC co-star Britt McHenry, have to say about all of this? He hasn’t officially responded on his social media accounts, although shortly after Baio’s tirade, he did post this without comment.
