Sunday, May 29, 2005

STORY: Say what?!?

Sorry, about the long wait again, but LA left me kinda shook. And not just because I tried a new hairstyle…




Or witnessed Hal Spark’s disturbingly long tongue…




Or met-up with my first real girlfriend, Kalle Dedolph, after eight years of radio silence…




No sir, it was none of those things that left me rattled. In fact, the truth of what happened is far stranger than all three of those put together. You see, in addition to wanting to take my place on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the other reason why I’d gone out west was to be a an expert panelist for a show on G4TV called “Video Vixens.”

(See, here I am with our dancer Tina-Marie, WWE Diva Joy, Hal Sparks and video-game journalist Seanbaby, who, incredibly, is also the founder of one of my favorite web-sites fatchicksinpartyhats.com.)



Anyway, I flew in Monday night, but before I’d even gotten to my hotel, the network called.



There was text here


audio


video


the works


Not any more though.




SORRY ABOUT THAT, you know I hate editing posts after I put them up, but on the advice of lawyers and others in the know, THE REST OF THIS POST SIMPLY HAD TO GO. If you didn’t have the chance to read it, just let me sum it up like this:

—I went on live TV and put my own foot knee deep in my mouth.
—In the process, I hurt a friend’s feelings (something I would never, ever do intentionally).
—And I lost my job over it. Fair enough, I’ve got no one to blame to but myself.

A bit of a postscript though:
Even after all that was said and done, the very lovely and very talented Beth O called and said she’d do anything and everything in her power to get me my job back. I’m fine, but how awesome is she? And after everything I did. If I live a thousand years I might never find the words to say how very appreciative I am for her friendship—and her understanding when I, at times, have proven myself undeserving.

That said, I’ll be OK. Really. Thanks for your well wishes… tomorrow we’ll get back to the job at hand—having fun that is. Tune in and get ready to smile again.

One last note though, please, please, please
DON’T EMAIL ANY OF MY FORMER COWORKERS REGARDING MY DEPARTURE OR YOUR VIEWS ON THE MATTER.
I know you mean well, but you’re making it hard for people to do their jobs. Thanks. I don't know about you, but I can't wait to put the past behind us and pick it all back up where we left off.

86 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

You got fired for that??

Pussies.

11:47 AM  
Blogger Extra Ordinary Boy said...

Wow...I've done WAY worse at my job. Admittedly, I was not on television at the time. Sorry to hear it...keep us up to date.

11:57 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

That's bullshit. Really.

11:58 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

and see, here I thought it was because you called FHM models "sexy girl-next-door."

glad to see you are on top of your tech, and in good spirits. if you decide to start selling your body to support yourself, I got $2 with your name on it, buddy.

bon courage.

11:58 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Didn't Howard get famous for telling it like it is? How famous was Beth really before they met? If I find the time between masturbating and TV I’m writing FHM an angry letter.

12:01 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

If you would like to me to urinate in anyone's cocktails for vengence...Its on the house

12:04 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Dude, I'm sorry to hear that. I know how much you loved it there, but like I always said, it's a magazine full of pussies. Time to move on.

12:17 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

you should start a gay FHM for straight boys.

1:11 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

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1:22 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thanks for the boss' email address! I'm totally sendin him a fuck off message. AND I'm never picking up another FHM magazine again....wait I've never even read FHM....maybe its because I'm a chick...but whatever. SCOTT BLOWS!

3:03 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You got fired for that? Thats complete bullshit!!
Oh well, it's their loss.

We still love ya Jake!

4:06 PM  
Blogger Raspil said...

i listened to the Stern thing and i don't see what you did that was wrong. people are way too sensitive. no one got hurt, they knew what the score was.

4:47 PM  
Blogger M. said...

Good idea. Done.

4:52 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I sent an email too . but alas , i highly doubt between my cuss words and use of words that don't exist im sure the only part of the email they will understand is Jake Bronstein. ha ha .


x

5:12 PM  
Blogger Eric said...

I don't know if I'm more surprised to hear that you got fired or that Howard Stern was offended of what you said.

It was so obvious that you were kidding! Anyway, good luck with everything.

7:27 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

wow.. I can not believe you got fired for that.. that nutz..

7:47 PM  
Blogger StinkyLulu said...

crazy. "send a message that they don't take this kind of thing lightly" -- wtf does that mean? i'm still trying to figure out what "this kind of thing" is... maybe you should just change your title to "wildman-at-large" (somehow i don't think anyone'll mistake MrScott for a wildman anytime soon). well, dude, you rock. enjoy the fracas.

8:32 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ahhhh!! That's crazy!! Jake AHHHHh!!

8:53 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Jake, I'm so sorry to hear about your job.

I listened to the whole interview and couldn't figure out what you'd done wrong. i was waiting for a "Beth is only famous for screwing Stern" or "FHM can suck me." Nothing.

What a ridiculous reason to fire someone.

If you get really poor and need to move to Canada, I have a spare couch.

(ps- i want that last business card)

11:01 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

meh who needs day a job anyway! you could probably find a way to make money out of this blog and finance your own projects. no doubt you would get plenty of potential income earning hits outta this thing.. umm.. just no pop up ads please haha

1:24 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You're still my hero. But just to put it into perspective, do you think if Artie cussed on the air and the show was going to get fined and the president called Howard personally and said "fire him and I'll leave you alone for ever" he would? I'm guessing not. If your boss thinks so highly of Howard, why couldn't he muster the same backbone?

8:09 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

that fucking sucks!! damn commie bastards!!

*shakes fist*

the autographed cards, however, are freakin' priceless. i'd love one.

9:40 AM  
Blogger Milani said...

Gosh...sorry to hear, Jake.

You're a great guy, dude. You really are. Have a great holiday and hope you get your old job back or get a better one in time.

10:41 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Well you could always go on another challenge for Road Rules/Real World! haha

1:12 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm so sorry, Jake. I know you'll pull through, though.

Hey...those of you that emailed his boss--if he replies, post it! I wanna see what his reaction is.

1:17 PM  
Blogger M. said...

What do you think the odds of that actually are?

You should totally auction off those business cards, Jake.

2:02 PM  
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2:44 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm sorry about you losing your job and all... Maybe I could help you? If you give us Beth O's number we could call her to apologize for you. It'd be like a collective apology.

2:46 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

i just jerked off to that hal sparks tongue pic. thanks for posting that, jakie baby.

4:29 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Rumor has it you're already on Maxim's payroll. Care to comment?

5:11 PM  
Blogger Miss Janie said...

What... the... fuck?

That's it... I'm boycotting FHM (yes, that includes the ones from the Philippines)!

Jake, that's total bullshit. TOTAL BULLSHIT!!

I still love you and I like the first card.

7:41 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Become a gay porn star - I would totally buy that movie!!! You are one hot f*ck!

9:53 PM  
Blogger socalgecko said...

arrr, the dirty bastards!

seriously, though, who else at FHM have you pissed off lately? this can't possibly have happened because of what you said...right?

10:44 PM  
Blogger Red Hot Sexy Papa said...

Start your own magazine. I can help since I worked for a magazine before. :)

Anyway, i have been reading your blog way way way long ago and i am voicing out now. Good blog.

12:37 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I think you should become an erotic dancer, or sell hotdogs on the street or a rabbi for dogs.

5:07 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I was waiting to see the awful thing you said in the interview to get fired, maybe some curse words, or a racist or sexist remark. Where the hell was it? That interview was as bland as they come.

You mean you got canned because of Beth? Total bull man -- FHM is a joke.

6:32 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You seemed like a dick on G4TV, so i'm fine with you getting fired. actually, the G4 dick that interviewed you should be fired also.

8:07 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I agree with the previous anon - the host of that show baited you into it. It was leading the witness. You were just trying to be nice to him and answer the questions the way he wanted them answered and you kinda ended up sounding like a dick. I blame him.

8:43 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

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8:52 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sucks! I say start your own magazine, I'll work for you for, like, a kiss or something.

9:01 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Honestly, Howard didn't seem that upset. He certainly wasn't ranting and raving. If FHM fired you over that, they are a bunch of wusses. The powers that be at FHM need to get a backbone.

9:54 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Jake,

I am feeling a LAWSUIT coming on. Can't you sue for that? You had permission from your publicist at FHM... Can't you plead that the show was edited as poorly as those god damn BUNIM and MURRAY RW/RR shows?!?! I think in part this speaks a lot for FHM. What a bunch of uptight, loser ass-clowns.


Sorry man...

10:03 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ok, that sucks.

But what a story!

What do I have to do to get a business card?!

10:13 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Good going making the FHM cover girl that sells tons of magazines look like an idiot and offending an icon and legend of your primary demographic audience to point where he bashes your magazine on air. You absolutely deserve to be fired but it appears that you are man enough to deal with it.

10:25 AM  
Blogger MickeyPsHo said...

i think it was the new 'do that got you the ax. nah, seriously. cheer up charlie. youre a hot guy. send your pics over to playgirl. i bet youd get the cover of every issue. yummy ;)

11:15 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Unbelievable Jake. Im on your side in this one. You will definetly find a bigger and better job. You are amazingly talented.

11:28 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You're portraying yourself as the victim and I sincerely doubt a couple of off-the-cuff comments is what got you fired. If you really can't come up with a reason, then you need to work on becoming more self-aware.

All in all? Meh. Just find another job, like the rest of us who get fired.

Good going on not wanting to be known as "Jake from Road Rules," though. That guy is a tool.

11:46 AM  
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11:47 AM  
Blogger dpaste said...

Hopefully when I view the Quicktime links at home I'll have a better idea of what the hell happened, but it sounds totally ridic to me. Glad to see that you are approaching the current situation with a positive frame of mind. You still rock and will continue to do so.

Don't like the new 'do', but why should you care what I think.

12:11 PM  
Blogger Roy said...

Hummm. Interesting that people insult you without leaving a name.

12:13 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

aw Jake that sucks. Bunch of pricks. But even without really knowing you, I know enough about you to know that you'll come out on top. Good luck Jake, I'll be holding my breath until your next post.

1:09 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Stern, the douche, fired your ass.

Just like he did Jackie...get used to it if you deal with that douchebag.

1:30 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ha Ha! You're unemployed and bitter.

1:33 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

boycott FHM - that is WEAK

1:39 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Wow, Kalle still looks really hot. Seeing her still looking that good would be much more of a kick in the ass to me than losing the job.

1:42 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Attack of the Show" hmmm...isn't it ironic.

1:57 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

fuck stern

2:09 PM  
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2:13 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I was an associate producer at A&E Television Networks and was let go, which is just a pussy word for fired, because of my boss' boss' politics, FUCK'EM Go get drunk, it always looks better a few months down the line.

2:55 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

How can you get fired from a job you created anyway? WTF?? Sorry, dude.

2:57 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Not cool Not cool at all I heard what you said and what Howard said not worth being fired for...pissing in the office coffee yeah but not saying what shes famous for really everyone should feel sorry for Beth she's the one who has to have sex with Howard...YUCK

4:06 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

omg...i love Hal Sparks! i want to meet him! :-(

8:03 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You should have gotten fired for appearing on that lame excuse for a tech show/channel.
The Screen Savers rules and those dopes at G4 don't. 'Nuff said.

8:25 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I still love you besides the fact, Jake.

8:32 PM  
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8:34 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

No offense but I certainly never would have thought I'd see you on page six...so even though this all sucks, that part is pretty exciting. Something to tell the grandkids.

9:54 PM  
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9:56 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

apologizing

10:01 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Howard Stern is the biggest POS douchebag on the planet. The man whines and bitches at and about all sorts of people on the air, but the minute someone offends his sensibilities he uses his power and influence to get his way. What an OCD a-hole! This from the man who supported Bush when it worked for him to do so but when the FCC called him to the carpet for his insipidly offensive show, he immediately switched sides faster than John Kerry and added Bush to his bitch list. To top it off, the message board on his website is a contrived ego stroke. What a joke. I am sure Beth would have given him the time of day if doing so wouldn't have advanced her career. Look what giving a BJ did for Monica! Case closed.

3:07 AM  
Blogger POMP said...

I thought you were a douche on AOTS, but not because of anything you said.

4:04 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

hey at least you made page six!!!

6:17 AM  
Blogger Mick Stingley said...

Hey, Jake-

Long time, no see.
Just read about your situation on Gawker. I didn't even know you had a blog, so I'll have to check in now and then.
Sorry to hear about your news though; but I think anyone who knows you also knows what cool guy and totally nice person you are. Everyone makes mistakes- and if that's what happened, so be it. It's not like you hate puppies or stabbed an 11 year-old. Sheesh. Anyway, drop me a note sometime, huh?

8:36 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I find it highly ironic that Stern spends his time spewing about the government preventing him from saying whatever about whomever whenever. Then he gets you fired for doing the same. Typical.

8:56 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hoo Hoo Howie strikes again...

12:13 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

WAH! WAH! Shouldn't go on the air and rip a person you just interviewed. No shit that Beth O is nothing without Howard. Not rocket science, so stop acting like you were giving a huge secret to the world.

FHM should have fired your ass because you possibly affected future interviews with your a-hole comments.

1:34 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

So the story according to some of you dumbasses is:

1) Jake rips Beth O
2) Howard gets pissed off, gets Jake fired
3) Beth O calls Jake to help him
4) Howard is the man behind this

You guys are fucking insane.

And retarded.

1:37 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

An FHM spokeswoman says Bronstein's "version of why he thinks his services are no longer desired by the editors of FHM is inaccurate. We are not surprised by the inaccuracies of his latest blog entry. His comments on G4TV were equally inaccurate."

3:19 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Screw them Jake...you can do so much better!! More power to you, speak your mind, bra!

LMP

4:08 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Came here because of the Howard Stern stuff and started looking over your site.

wow, you are really wacky! Some of that stuff is really out there!!
Love the photos!!!

You are blessed with lots of creativity. Keep it up -- it is really interesting.

Piss and golden balls? Outrageous!

Shaving your pubes and displaying them on the web? Shocking!

And I like how you always have a camera to capture those wacky moments!

BRILLIANT SITE!!

6:10 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Howard read a story from the NY Post's Page Six gossip column that accused him of getting someone fired for something they said about Beth O. According to the Post's Richard Johnson, Jake Bronstein was fired from his position as Editor-At-Large at FHM Magazine after Howard complained about something Bronstein had said during an interview on G4TV (a computer and gaming cable channel). Howard had played the interview on the air and had said at the time, that he thought some of the things Bronstein had said in the interview were kind of crummy. That was it. Neither he, nor Beth ever called anyone at FHM about the comments, nor would either of them pull anything like that. Howard said he has no idea why Bronstein was fired. He said he can't even bring himself to fire people who work for him, let alone getting people who work for someone else fired. Because of all this, Howard was amazed that his name was in the headline of this article. He has no idea why the guy was fired, had nothing to do with it, doesn't care about FHM and wants to have nothing to do with them. Howard said he once hired a publicist to keep him out of the paper and now he may consider hiring him again. Howard said everything about the article was wrong and doesn't want people to think he goes around getting people fired. Robin pointed out that the one thing in the article that seemed true was at the very end it quoted FHM as saying this had nothing to do with Howard.

11:24 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Awwww! Poor faggot lost his faggot job! Should have kept his faggot mouth shut about Beth Foot!

4:11 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yeah well you getting fired - led me to your blog and I've had a great time reading it and emailing it to my friends. Yes I've been fired too. Always shocking at first but then it kind of gets to be a badge of honor even if it is for something that came out of your mouth that shouldn't have. Ooops. You kinda make me wish I kept blogging but I just stopped after 5 years. Only camera phone images now. Good luck from San Fran. :-)

11:25 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Howard Stern himself said on his June 1st Radio show that he couldn't understand why Jake was fired. He felt that his comments were "crummy" - after all, they were regarding his girlfriend - but he didn't feel that they should have resulted in his termination. It's utterly unfair.

From Howardstern.com:

" Howard had played the interview on the air and had said at the time, that he thought some of the things Bronstein had said in the interview were kind of crummy. That was it. Neither he, nor Beth ever called anyone at FHM about the comments, nor would either of them pull anything like that. Howard said he has no idea why Bronstein was fired. He said he can't even bring himself to fire people who work for him, let alone getting people who work for someone else fired. Because of all this, Howard was amazed that his name was in the headline of this article. He has no idea why the guy was fired, had nothing to do with it, doesn't care about FHM and wants to have nothing to do with them. "

3:12 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Jake you should get one of those "As Sceen On Page Six" shirts they advertise on the Post's web site... milk this for all its worth maybe you will get a job out of it.

1:03 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Jake! This is a Brilliant Career move!
Genuis, now more people know who you are
than ever before! Keep showing the willie and
keep pissing people off!
You may have to keep the water-less apt for a while
but it all comes around!

Let me manage you!

Morris Biddle.

BTW I handle such talent as: Javier Mortlemann the yiddish Latin shock commedian, Boris Von diet Lam, the Thai nazi impersonator... to name a few.

6:18 AM  
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