Pressure is building on The Apprentice producers to release unaired raw footage of the show after Friday’s release of a 2005 hot mic video of Donald Trump apparently bragging about sexually assaulting women and trying to have sex with a married woman.
More than 20 former contestants, crew members, and editors told the Associated Press that Trump treated women on the show inappropriately, including talking about which contestants he would like to have sex with and rating them by breast size.
“If there was a break in the conversation, he would then look at one of the female cast members, saying ‘you’re looking kind of hot today, I love that dress on you,’ then he would turn to one of the male cast members and say ‘wouldn’t you sleep with her?’ and then everyone would laugh,” a former crew member, who spoke anonymously due to a non-disclosure agreement, told AP.
“There would be about 10 or 12 cameras rolling and getting that footage, which is why everybody was like, this guy just doesn’t care.”
3. Despite widespread public demand and multiple requests by BuzzFeed News, executive producer Mark Burnett has not responded or released the footage.
Another anonymous crew member said Burnett guarded footage carefully while the show was airing to protect against spoilers.
“The Apprentice’ footage was super vaulted stuff, to keep it from getting into anyone’s hands,” the member told AP. “The game-show aspect meant that the footage was locked down super securely.”
NBC spokesperson Rebecca Marks told AP she did not know if the network has unaired footage in storage, and even if they did, they would not be permitted to release it.
“We don’t have the legal right to give out the footage from that show,” Marks said.
On Saturday afternoon, Bill Pruitt, who said he worked as a producer on the first two seasons of The Apprentice, tweeted that there were “far worse” tapes of Trump out there:
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