Howard Stern\u2019s career-making \u201cshock jock\u201d antics did lasting damage, according to a new book.<\/p>\n
While his stunts were often brushed off as \u201cjust a joke\u201d, it seems that some participants are still feeling their sting decades later \u2013 with Baywatch star Nicole Eggert saying she wishes she could \u201creach out and hug\u201d her younger self who sat in Stern\u2019s studio.<\/p>\n
Obsessed with celebrity news? Download our new app<\/a> and never miss a headline<\/p>\n Eggert \u2013 who appeared in a 1995 interview in which Stern criticised her outfit and demanded, \u201cI want you in a bikini\u201d \u2013 spoke with author Greg Prato for his The Great American Nightmare: An Oral History of The Howard Stern Show, saying, \u201cI was very programmed to just go in and just let it slide off your back.\u201d<\/p>\n Eggert says she felt pressured to go along because Stern\u2019s show was No. 1 and turning down the appearance could anger the people managing her career.<\/p>\n She also wasn\u2019t comfortable with some of his questions, saying the studio wasn\u2019t a \u201csafe environment\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cWatching old clips of the show and seeing how many women were treated \u2013 or more fittingly, mistreated \u2013 is also shocking,\u201d Eggert says in the book.<\/p>\n Stream the Baywatch movie now on BINGE<\/a>. <\/p>\n Rewatching her own interview decades later left her cringing. \u201cI wish I could just like, reach out and hug that girl,\u201d she says, adding that while she had thick skin, other women might not be as resilient.<\/p>\n Still, Eggert says she doesn\u2019t regret appearing and takes pride in refusing to put on a bikini.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, some Stern staffers say in the book that they regret their part in the show\u2019s more extreme moments.<\/p>\n Former show personality Chaunce Hayden recalls bringing in the ashes of Debbie Tay, a fan favourite who died of a drug overdose in 1995, for an on-air memorial.<\/p>\n Hayden says Stern pulled bone fragments from the box and joked about them on camera.<\/p>\n Debbie\u2019s family later filed an $US8 million lawsuit against Hayden, Stern and Infinity Broadcasting. The case settled before trial, but the final amount was never publicly confirmed.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was terrible,\u201d Hayden says. \u201cI do regret it.\u201d<\/p>\n The news comes as Stern is already under fire for laying off employees and scaling back show time, while reportedly making an estimated $US8000 per minute on air himself.<\/p>\n This article originally appeared in Page Six<\/a> and was reproduced with permission<\/p>\n Read related topics:Binge<\/a>Foxtel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Howard Stern\u2019s career-making \u201cshock jock\u201d antics did lasting damage, according to a new book. 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