Jay Leno confirmed just a little solidarity for the writers Tuesday by interesting to their tummies.
The former late night time host introduced donuts to the picketers outdoors of Disney, the place picketers marched across the block for hours. Lots of “thank yous” had been yelled as he quietly handed out containers from Randy’s whereas sporting his signature denim outfit.
It’s custom for Leno to move out the deep-fried confections: he additionally did it throughout the 2007 writers’ strike.
Other than a couple of appearances, Leno, 72, has principally stayed out of the general public eye after struggling burns to his face, arms and chest in a gasoline fireplace in his Burbank storage in November. His schedule is much more open nowadays, too, after CNBC dropped his traditional automotive sequence Jay Leno’s Garage earlier this 12 months after seven seasons.
Picketing at Disney and different places round Los Angeles started at 1 p.m. immediately. WGA Committee Co-Chair Chris Keyser informed Deadline he has no clue when the strike could finish. “You never…know. But I will say that up until this morning, we only struck once in 35 years, and we only do it when we see an existential threat to writing as a profession, as we did when we contemplated the idea that streaming would not pay us adequately, where we had no projections there. So, I think writers understand that they need to hold together, and we’ll hold together until we solve this problem.”
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