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Radio host storms off air after being told he can’t joke about Demi Lovato being non-binary: ‘Matty out’
Boston DJ and radio show host Matt Siegel stormed off-air during his live show after he was told to stop joking about Demi Lovato’s non-binary announcement.
The longtime KISS 108 host had been reacting to the video Lovato posted on Wednesday in which the singer revealed their pronouns are ‘they/them’.
Matty in the Morning Show host Siegel had plenty to say about the Sorry Not Sorry hitmaker’s decision to capture the ‘fluidity I feel in my gender expression’ and allows them to feel ‘most authentic and true’ to their identity.
When bosses told him to drop the issue, the Boston Herald reports that he told listeners: ‘They pulled the plug on me and they said, “You cannot talk about what you’re talking about”.
‘I like my boss personally. I do. I’m very fond of him, he’s very nice to me. It’s not personal. It’s professional.’
The radio DJ, who has hosted his Boston morning show since 1981, then appeared to quit as he told listeners that ‘it’s been a hell of a run’ but it was now ‘coming to an end’.
‘I can’t do what I just want to do, which is be a funny comic who tells it like it is about what he’s thinking,’ Siegel stated. ‘So I’m ending my portion of the radio show right now.’
Before he left, the radio host added that he believes the ‘whole binary thing’ is a joke as he said: ‘I don’t care what Demi Lovato does, but now we have to worry about [if] you might offend someone.
‘So I basically offended right-wing people, and today I offended left-wing people.’
However, the show – which is reportedly KISS 108’s highest performing programme – was running as normal on Thursday morning with Siegel back on air.
In a teaser for their new podcast series 4D, produced by OBB Sound, Demi told fans on Wednesday: ‘Over the past year and a half, I’ve been doing some healing and self-reflective work. And through this work I have had the revelation that I identify as non-binary.
‘With that said, I’ll officially be changing my pronouns to they/them. I feel that this best represents the fluidity I feel in my gender expression, and allows me to feel most authentic and true to the person I both know I am and still am discovering.’
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