They did not “See Her in the Morning.”
Two audience members claimed that they were removed from a taping of Drew Barrymore’s morning talk show for sporting Writers Guild of America pins on their clothing.
According to a post on X (formerly Twitter) Dominic Turiczek and his friend Cassidy Carter showed up at the CBS Broadcast Center in New York after winning a pair of free tickets and accepted the pins from picketers before heading into the building.
Turiczek claimed that upon entering the CBS building, he and his friend were “verbally assaulted.”
“Went to @DrewBarrymoreTV after winning tickets, unaware of the #WGA strike,” Turiczek wrote on Monday. “We took pins & went in, got kicked out, & verbally assaulted by @DrewBarrymore’s crew. It’s clear they don’t support #WGAStrong, writers or fans!”
Turiczek and his friend went on to join the picketers outside the building after the incident.
The enraged fan added in a second tweet that while they were aware that the strike was going on, they did not realize that “they were picketing at Drew’s show.”
“It is our policy to welcome everyone to our show tapings,” a spokesperson told EW in a statement about the matter. “Due to heightened security concerns today, we regret that two audience members were not permitted to attend or were not allowed access.”
The statement concluded: “Drew was completely unaware of the incident and we are in the process of reaching out to the affected audience members to offer them new tickets.”
The Post reached out to Barrymore, 48, for comment.
One day earlier, the “Charlie’s Angels” star was forced to defend her decision to keep filming despite the ongoing strike.
The “Blended” actress issued a statement Sunday on Instagram saying that even though she walked away from hosting the MTV Movie & TV Awards in May as it was in “direct conflict with what the strike was dealing with which was studios, streamers, film, and television,” she was set on bringing back her show.
“I am also making the choice to come back for the first time in this strike for our show, that may have my name on it but this is bigger than just me,” she wrote. “I own this choice.”
“We are in compliance with not discussing or promoting film and television that is struck of any kind. We launched live in a global pandemic,” she continued. “Our show was built for sensitive times and has only functioned through what the real world is going through in real time.”
Additionally, Barrymore noted that her show had wrapped for the summer on April 20, before the strikes began.
“The Drew Barrymore Show will not be performing any writing work covered by the WGA strike,” a CBS Media Ventures spokesperson told The Post.
The Writers Guild of America have pushed back about the show returning to air.
“The @DrewBarrymoreTV Show is a WGA covered, struck show that is planning to return without its writers,” the Writers Guild of America, East tweeted Sunday. “The Guild has, and will continue to, picket struck shows that are in production during the strike. Any writing on ‘The Drew Barrymore Show’ is in violation of WGA strike rules.”
In May, Hollywood writers began demanding that studios pay them higher wages, that they are paid more from streaming services such as Netflix and Hulu, and that regulations are made surrounding artificial intelligence. In an act of solidarity, the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Radio and Television Artists (SAG-AFTRA) voted to join their compatriots on the picket line in July.
The WGA strike is still ongoing with no end in sight.
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