Gary Owen reveals behind-the-scenes abuse while working on Steve Harvey’s talk show

In his revealing interview with ‘Club Shay Shay’, Gary Owen revealed more concerning the time he spent working on the ‘Steve Harvey’ show with fellow comedian Steve Harvey.

The talk show aired from 2012 to 2017, and Owen worked on the show for about two weeks as an announcer. The “Ride Along” actor detailed his experience with the show, and through his conversation with Shannon Sharpe, he even mentioned Harvey’s stepdaughter, model Lori Harvey.

When asked if he had relationship with Harvey, the “Think Like a Man” star told Sharpe that he had all the time been good with Harvey.

“That’s what the headlines say” he said Oven. “I was always good to Steve. What happened with the whole thing, when he moved his talk show from Chicago to Los Angeles, I went on as a guest. He pulled me aside and told me something like, “I’m about to move this show to Los Angeles. We’re going to make it a late-night talk show, but a daytime talk show, but I want to bring you on as sort of a co-host.”

Owen added that after just a few months, a producer called him to debate the performance. “I don’t think he knows who I am,” Owen said. “I feel he checked out it prefer it was a favor. Well, nothing’s going on in my life, right? I could tell by the tone of the conversation.

The 49-year-old added that he hasn’t signed a contract but has agreed to look on the show for 2 weeks to see how things go.

On the primary day, he was placed in a fantastic dressing room, but later it was given to the show’s guest, comedian Chelsea Handler. Apparently it was her old dressing room and Owen added that the worker took him to a different dressing room.

“So I thought, ‘Okay.’ Just this episode. … I was walking around, but the guy put me in some broken closet with no mirror and no bathroom,” Owen revealed. “They basically said, ‘This is where you’re going to spend the rest of the week,’ and I said, ‘Oh.'”

Owen shared that when he asked for a greater wardrobe, “Black Women to the Rescue,” noting that he had previously been helped by a white man.

“One of them, a Black woman, stepped in. She knew who I was,” Owen said, adding that the lady got him a small dressing room with a small TV, a couch and a rest room, and he was “good.”

Owen ultimately left the show because he only made the “SAG minimum” and lost money because he wasn’t touring or doing stand-up comedy. He made thrice that quantity while touring for “Hip Hop Squares.”

Owen said he turned down the gig after being offered one other two weeks and never being offered the cash he wanted.

“I’d say it’s Lori’s fault,” he joked. “It was her fault. Won’t you defend her? Won’t you defend her? You’re not going to defend Lori Harvey? Another black woman you don’t defend,” Owen said, referring to Sharpe’s point criticized for dating white women.