Recently singer Demi Lovato announced that they now identify as nonbinary and their pronouns have been changed to they/them. Kiss 108 host Matty Siegel of Matty in the Morning walked off his radio show last week after management told him to to stop making comments about Demi Lovato’s announcement.
Matty Siegel later spoke to Boston.com and noted that he was talking about Lovato’s announcement in the context of a joke when he received a call from his boss telling him he crossed the line.
“I’m against her binary thing; I think she’s a troubled woman and a lot of young people are taking her seriously and it bothers me,” Siegel said. “But of course, it’s a comedy show, so I did it in the context of jokes.”
“We were having fun with it, and my boss called up and said that I’d crossed the line and they didn’t want me talking about it anymore,” he continued. “I responded by saying, ‘If I can’t talk about what I’m thinking at this point in my career, I don’t want to be on the radio anymore.’”
‘Matty, out’: Audio clip of Matt Siegel (Matty in the Morning) @Kiss108 apparently quitting live on the air this morning (via Kevin Doyle) pic.twitter.com/YToNubWkJr
— Mike Saccone (@mikesacconetv) May 19, 2021
Siegel later returned to the radio show, but his comments have become a hot topic on social media, and WWE Hall of Famer Road Dogg recently weighed in when he reacted to the news with the following comment on a Facebook post: “Good for him. We have to be bold and stand up against this secularism.”
Road Dogg has since deleted the comment.
Stay tuned for more updates as they become available.
