Mario Lopez left ‘Extra’ After Boss Threatened to “Me Too” Him and Expose Infidelities

From the article:

Mario Lopez had co-hosted Extra for ten years when he was in the midst of renegotiating his contract in 2018. According to multiple sources with knowledge of the situation, the dialogue grew increasingly tense when it became apparent the TV star might bail for a competitor.

Before Lopez eventually bolted for top rival Access Hollywood, Gregorisch-Dempsey at one point told the former Saved by the Bell star and his manager Mark Schulman that she would leak personally damaging stories to the press about him in an effort to “ruin him,” four people familiar with a series of email and phone exchanges told The Daily Beast.

These insiders said that Gregorisch-Dempsey threatened Lopez with pushing out the negative press items, allegedly alluding to unsubstantiated rumors of infidelity or misconduct.

One current Extra employee recounted an email in which Gregorisch-Dempsey allegedly intimated to Lopez that she could “ruin” him if he did not re-sign with the program. Lopez “showed it to his manager, agent, and an attorney at his agent’s office,” the staffer said. “He told a lot of people about the email.”

Two additional sources familiar with the email confirmed that Gregorisch-Dempsey threatened Lopez if he left Extra, adding that the senior executive producer eventually apologized to the host as well as his wife.

With his great acting talents, he'll soon find other work!

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“That’s when Mario decided to leave,” claimed a current staffer with inside knowledge of the situation. “He told staff he couldn’t work with people like that. It is common knowledge among staff why Mario left: Lisa threatened him.”

Additionally, De Santis, the former Extra producer and Gregorisch-Dempsey’s nephew, recounted his aunt telling him about a phone call in which she told Lopez he was putting all of the show’s employees in jeopardy because NBC might not pick up Extra for another season if he left.

“Lisa told me she said some things (to Mario and his manager) she needed to apologize for and asked me to help her draft an apology to [Lopez’s wife] Courtney,” De Santis added.

Emails obtained and reviewed by The Daily Beast show Gregorisch-Dempsey apologizing directly to Schulman for a previous conversation, noting that her aggression was in part due to her belief that the show’s livelihood depended on Lopez remaining host.

“I thought about our conversation and I owe you an apology,” Gregorisch-Dempsey wrote to Schulman in early 2018. “I have and will always be ‘Team Mario.’ I have 120 people depending on Mario as our on air team leader for their livelihood. I will always fight for the show just as you are fighting for Mario’s best interest and I respect that.”

De Santis also claimed that he was tasked with drafting an apology on Gregorisch-Dempsey’s behalf to Lopez’s spouse. “After she made the threat to leak negative stories about Mario, Lisa asked me to help her draft an apology email to Mario’s wife Courtney,” he said. “Basically, Lisa was saying [to me] she wanted Mario to get #MeToo’d.”

How interesting! NBC, so woke!

So woke they made Mario accept having a transgender on the reboot of Saved By the Bell so he could atone for having the nerve to suggest that 3-year old's should not be transitioning. Even oddly gave the transgender a producer's credit for the reboot despite this mere 20-year old having absolutely no history with the original show.

Oh, the irony:

CONNECTING PRAYER, HOPE AND HEALING—A Conversation with Lisa Gregorisch-Dempsey

Television veteran Lisa Gregorisch-Dempsey uses instinct, enthusiasm, and humor to break stories and entertain others.

[quote] At the end of 2018, months after Lopez decided to reject the studio’s offer to stay with Extra

Saved By His Quell

They’re both MAGA trash. Team nobody.

[Quote] They’re both MAGA trash. Team nobody.

But Mario at least has a big, uncut cock.

Wasn't he accused of rape, actual "rape rape"?

He tried to grab my penis when I was tutoring him!

Wonder what information she had to “ruin” him, considering that a simple Google search reveals that he cheated on his ex-wife Ali Landry, he cheated on his DWTS partner Karina Smirnoff, and that two women accused him of rape in the 90s…

Makes those cutesy little Extra vanity card bumpers not seem so cutesy anymore. “Welcome home, Lisa G!”

Why would you ever put something like that in writing?

Mario is vocal in his support of Joe Francis on social media. Birds of a feather flock together.

I think we've found Edie Falco's next role.

Joe Francis? Not Joe Rogan? Fucking gross. Altho let's see the tapes Joe

Lisa was once tight with Flipping Out's Jeff Lewis.

R16 is right.

Who'd want to engage in infidelities with this guy who can't ever stop looking like he's still 15-years-old!? Stop, I can't..

R20 I wouldn’t want to be in a committed relationship with him, but would do anything to get dicked down by him. He’s HAWT! And based off of the swinging action going on in his shorts here, HUNG!

Maybe this Ms. Lisa Gregorisch-Dempsey has nudes of Mario or a sex tape of him that she’ll release!

She really is a horrible, horrible woman. EXTRA has long had a reputation as one of the most fetid places in Hollywood to work, right up there with ELLEN and DR. PHIL.

The way Hollywood is bending over backwards to (way more than simply) include trannies is beyond. I can’t wait for what happens next with josie totah. It all looks so good now. Tick fucking tock.