Per week after Jess Hilarious went viral on Instagram Stay for her complaints about office dynamics since she returned from maternity depart, the host and comic discovered herself sitting throughout from none apart from Shannon Sharpe. Solely this time, it was Sharpe who was mildly within the scorching seat.
The 56-year-old former NFL player-turned-viral podcast host apologized to Jess on a current episode of his “Membership Shay Shay” podcast for previous feedback he made about her physique in 2024, across the time she was introduced as “The Breakfast Membership’s” latest version.
Through the “Nightcap” version of his present, Sharpe stated he and Chad Ochocinco Johnson had been discussing Jess’ new gig when the dialog turned to her look.
“I stated ‘aye Ocho, she good.’ So, if I offended you, I wish to apologize as a result of that was not my intent. I used to be similar to ‘yeah, she’s a pleasant wanting lady, she has a pleasant determine,” he stated, including that he acquired backlash due to the greater than 20-year age distinction between him and the 33-year-old comic.
“Like I’m not in my thirties, I’m a grown a— lady, however yeah I get it,” Jess responded.
Sharpe continued by noting, “The factor is, a variety of instances, being uncomfortable solely occurs when the individual that’s saying one thing, the opposite individual’s not interested in them or they really feel some kind of approach… I didn’t, and I don’t ever need somebody to really feel uncomfortable with my feedback, in order that’s why I needed to take the time and say I apologize for what I stated.”
“It’s okay, and that imply you bought some good eyes on you,” Jess quipped. “That’s simply all which means, ain’t nothin’ with it.”
Throughout his preliminary remarks, which lasted almost 5 minutes, Sharpe praised her physique extensively for its curves.
“I do know she’s a comic … her physique ain’t no laughing matter tho,” he tells Johnson. “I ain’t know she was like that!”
At one level, Sharpe even rapped Megan Thee Stallion’s “Physique” hook.
“Like Kyrie [Irving] dribbling two basketballs,” he joked as OchoCinco struggled to vary the topic.
“Don’t get me in hassle now,” OchoCinco teases as Sharpe provides, “I’d get my rattling self in hassle.”
Along with the apology, in the course of the wide-reaching dialog, Jess reveals extra of how she grew up in Baltimore, her profession, motherhood, and her ideas on among the greatest current moments in popular culture, just like the Kendrick Lamar and Drake beef. Whereas they don’t get into her current public outburst on IG Stay (it’s probably this interview occurred prior), she does focus on what it was prefer to step into her new function at “The Breakfast Membership.”
Proper across the time longtime co-host Angela Ye was transitioning away, Jess recalled going above and past to indicate her curiosity. The truth is she admitted she had little or no doubt she was a shoo-in.
“I knew I used to be going to get it,” she informed host Sharpe. “I by no means even thought that I didn’t have it. I all the time knew.”
She added that as visitor hosts, together with herself, rotated out of the coveted third seat, she “handled it prefer it was my seat.” Her confidence was not primarily based on her relationships with both DJ Envy or Charlamagne tha God however slightly what she was fostering with the listeners and followers of the present.
When discussing current run-ins on her present with visitors like Sexxy Crimson who verbally tussled along with her over perceived slights, Jess summed it up by saying: “All people cool with Jess the Mess until they find yourself in it.”
