Gail defends faithful hubs: Tantaros claims ‘all a lie’
Gail Huff is standing by her man, insisting that allegations that her hubby, former Massachusetts U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, sexually harassed a co-worker at Fox
News are totally false. “It’s all a lie, it’s all a fabrication,” Huff told the Track. “It’s all an attempt to bolster a lawsuit that appears to be meritless.”
Huff said Brown is a “gentleman” who would never sexually harass a woman, because of his own background of being molested as a child.
“As you know, Scott is a victim of sexual abuse and he is very sensitive to any sexually abusive language,” Huff said. “He is very careful not to offend. He is also a gentleman.”
Brown, who described being sexually abused at age 10 by a summer camp counselor on Cape Cod in his autobiography “Against All Odds,” was accused by Fox News host Andrea Tantaros of making inappropriate comments to her and sneaking up behind her and grabbing her waist.
Huff said she often travels with her husband when he goes to New York to appear on Fox News and has never seen anything inappropriate.
“We just celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary,” she said. “His commitment to me has never, ever been in question.”
Tantaros’ allegation that Brown told her “in a suggestive manner” that she “would be fun to go to a nightclub with” while on the set of the show “Outnumbered” about a year ago was particularly strange, Huff said.
“There are, at a minimum, 25 people on the set and anything he said would have been picked up on his microphone,” she said.
“Nothing has ever been brought up, said or suggested by anyone since. Nothing. This is an attempt by Andrea and her lawyers to try and prove an environment of hostility and sexual harassment. By using Scott they are trying to build a case to establish credibility,” Huff said.
Tantaros was taken off the air last April when the network alleged she breached her contract by writing a book without getting network clearance. Her lawsuit contends she was let go because she complained of being sexually harassed. Brown told bostonherald. yesterday that the complaints against him are “completely and totally false.”
“First of all, I don’t go to nightclubs. I haven’t been to a club in 30 years. I don’t even dance,” Brown said. “And that’s not how I talk. I don’t even know what to say. I’m at a loss. I treat the people from the elevators to the makeup chair and everyone in between with dignity and respect. I don’t go around and touch other people’s waists.”
Brown appeared twice yesterday on the Fox Business Network and told the Track his contract has been renewed and he’s gotten a raise since the incidents allegedly happened.
“This supposedly happened a year ago, I’ve never been spoken to, never been reprimanded,” he said. “Needless to say, I’m sad about it, but I didn’t do anything wrong and I’m happy to tell anyone that, even under oath, if it’s required.”
Tantaros’ suit, which also names former network chief Roger Ailes, host Bill
O’Reilly, and newly appointed network co-president Bill
Shine, describes Fox News as a haven of sex harassment.
“Fox News masquerades as a defender of traditional family values, but behind the scenes, it operates like a sex-fueled, Playboy Mansionlike cult, steeped in intimidation, indecency and misogyny,” Tantaros’ suit says.
Tantaros claims O’Reilly, who is not listed as a defendant, invited her to stay with him on Long Island where it would be “very private” and told her “on more than one occasion that he could ‘ see (her) as a wild girl.’” Shine, she said, encouraged her to drop her harassment claims.
Tantaros’ suit comes nearly two months after former Fox News host
Gretchen Carlson accused Ailes of sexual harassment, prompting at least 20 women to come forward with their own stories of being harassed by the Fox News boss. Ailes, who resigned last month, has denied all the allegations.