“Designing Women” creator Linda Bloodworth-Thomason accused ousted CBS chief Les Moonves of sidelining her career for seven years in an guest column published by The Hollywood Reporter Wednesday.
In the piece titled “Designing Women’ Creator Goes Public With Les Moonves War: Not All Harassment Is Sexual,” Bloodworth-Thomason said Moonves — who resigned late Sunday from CBS, following a second wave of sexual misconduct accusations that came out that morning in another New Yorker piece penned by Ronan Farrow — changed her future at the network. She channeled her “finest Julia Sugarbaker” to tell him off.
Bloodworth-Thomason also calls out Moonves for misogynistic behavior and recounts one incident where “a famous actress” was “coming off the cancellation of her iconic detective show” and pitching a new one to Moonves when “he informed her that she was too old to be on his network.”