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Alec Baldwin 'fired' from MSNBC after homophobic rant and 'excessive demands'

MailOnline can now confirm that MSNBC has cut Alec Baldwin's late night talk show Comes after it was suspended for two weeks following a series of run-ins with photographers where he used a homophobic slur His spokesman confirmed that the show will be off the air

By Meghan Keneally


PUBLISHED: 13:32 EST, 26 November 2013 | UPDATED: 13:53 EST, 26 November 2013


MailOnline has now confirmed that Alec Baldwin has been nixed from the MSNBC lineup following the scandal surrounding his homophobic insults and run-ins with multiple photographers.


The actors's late night talk show 'Up Late With Alec Baldwin' was originally suspended for two weeks immediately following his argument with photographers and journalists outside of his New York City apartment.


In a pseudo 'mea culpa' that the actor wrote following the suspension, he hinted that it may be taken off the air permanently.



An employee at MSNBC has confirmed to MailOnline that the star's nascent show has been officially cancelled on Tuesday.


'The decision has been made. He's gone,' an unidentified insider told The New York Post.


'The (parent company) Comcast guys have decided. Word is spreading through the building.'


The paper spoke with the Golden Globe-winning actor's spokesman who reportedly took issue with the word 'fired' but did confirm that the show will no longer be on the air.


'The show is not coming back. He had questions on whether he wanted to continue,' the spokesman said.


Apparently his use of a slur- which he still disputes, saying that he did not call a photographer a 'c********** f**' instead calling him a 'c********** fathead'- was not the only reason why Comcast decided to cut the program.



The inside sources also claimed that Baldwin was overly demanding behind the scenes and said that he required a personal humidifier and his own make up room because a woman who he would have been sharing it with has cancer and a sensitivity to hairspray.


'I don't give a f*** if she has cancer or not, I want that f****** makeup room,' he allegedly screamed.


When the temporary suspension was announced on November 15, Baldwin hinted that it may not return.


'Whether the show comes back at all is at issue right now,' he wrote in an essay published on The


'If quitting the television business, the movie business, the theater, any component of entertainment, is necessary in order to bring safety and peace to my family, then that is an easy choice.'


Though he may have been down at that point after having three separate arguments with reporters and photographers in the span of one day, it didn't stop him from taking pot-shots at the competition in the blog post.



'If the show dies, its fate ends up being no different than the vast majority of start-up TV programming, and so be it. We do take a small amount of pride in knowing that we beat CNN in the ratings each of our nights. (I forget who they had on at that time.)'


'I have been a fan of MSNBC for some time. Its left-leaning tone never bothered me. I still believe that they are more enamored of and devoted to the truth in any single hour than Fox is all year long.'


In a note that seems like he knew trouble was brewing, he did say that a cancellation of his program may help fellow MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, who he called the 'single most important television journalist on the air today'.


'If my show does disappear, I will be grateful in so far as her good work, along with that of (Lawrence) O'Donnell and (Chris) Hayes and (Al) Sharpton and (Chris) Matthews and (Chris) Jansing, will not be sullied by my problem,' he wrote.


The series of incidents this month were just the latest in a string of violent and homophobic altercations that Baldwin has been a part of over the years.


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