Claudia Jordan on being banished from eating in same room with Smiley:
“It’s true. We all ate breakfast every day. But then one day, I was told that it was annoying that I ate and that I should eat in the other room. I was pulled aside [by one of the producers] who said, ‘Do you have to eat every day?’ I said, ‘I prefer to eat every day’. … So everyone’s eating every day and … I was pulled to the side by one of the producers and it was just like, ‘It kind of annoys someone that you eat.’ I thought it was a joke … some days he [Rickey] was extremely nice.
Jordan on being handcuffed on the show and stifling her creativity:
“The first three days I was there, I killed it and that’s why I got the contract. I went hard. I remember being told, ‘Hey, be the voice of reason.’ And then Rickey said, ‘No! Let this motherf—— go! She goes! And then I went. And then my Twitter blew up. And then a couple of weeks later, it was like, ‘You know you don’t always have to try to be funny. Just read the news.’ The it was ‘don’t speak during sports.’ And I got reduced.”
Jordan on being blamed for low ratings/numbers.
“It’s possible that my numbers weren’t high because I don’t feel like I was operating at 100 percent.”
Jordan goes on to say whether or not she is friends with Smiley after how she was treated on and off the air:
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