BBC host claims Paramount CUT Fraiser star Kelsey Grammer’s interview short once he said he still supported Donald Trump

BBC journalist Justin Webb said Monday that his interview with Kelsey Grammer was cut short by Paramount+'s PR team after the Frasier star reiterated his support for former President Donald Trump.

Grammer has been making the publicity rounds to promote the rebooted Frasier, which is being offered by Paramount+.

In the interview with Webb, which aired on BBC Radio 4's Today show, Grammer talked about how Roseanne Barr – one of Trump's most outspoken supporters in Hollywood – influenced his decision to appoint Dr. Frasier Crane again, when she took on the role of Dr. Roosanne in 2018.

The reference to Barr, who recently appeared on the campaign trail with Trump, prompted Webb to ask Grammer if he still supported the ex-president.

'I am. And I'll let that be the end of it,” Grammer replied.

Frasier star Kelsey Grammer (left) said this week that he still supports former President Donald Trump (right), with the BBC interviewer saying their conversation was cut short by Paramount+'s PR team after he referred the actor to the ex- president had asked

The BBC's Justin Webb said Monday on BBC Radio 4's Today show that Paramount+'s PR team dropped his interview with Frasier star Kelsey Grammer after Grammer said he still supports former President Donald Trump.

Webb went on to say there was more to it.

“I have to say that Kelsey Grammer herself was very happy to keep talking about it,” Webb said at the end of the interview. “The PR people at Paramount+, less happy that he talked about it at length.”

Webb joked that they were “really happy” he had talked about it.

“Anyway, they decided we had enough time for our interview,” he said.

“But I must emphasize that he was very keen to talk about why he supports Donald Trump and continues to do so in the upcoming election,” Webb added.

Paramount+'s PR team did not immediately respond to DailyMail.com's request for comment.

Grammer openly supported Trump during his time in office.

Comedian Roseanne Barr appeared at a campaign rally in Florida for former President Donald Trump last month. Grammer was discussing Barr's influence on his decision to do the Frasier reboot when the BBC's Justin Webb asked him if he still supported the ex-president.

For example, in 2019, Grammer told Christiane Amanpour in a PBS interview that he was happy that Trump was a disruptor.

“I don't think Washington has done us any favors in the last fifty or sixty years. I think they've all been kind of the same lot, the same bunch of clowns, the same bunch of really unpleasant people,” the actor said. . “And I don't think they helped anyone but themselves.”

Some Trump supporters were less enthusiastic about the Republican in the wake of his so-called “big lie” — in which he denied losing the 2020 election — and the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

With his BBC interview and with her recent campaign appearances, Grammer and Barr have indicated that they are still Trump supporters.

Grammer's Fraiser ran from 1993 to 2004 and returned to TV in October.

As for Barr, her Roseanne reboot was short-lived.

In May 2018, Barr tweeted a racist comment about Valerie Jarrett, former President Barack Obama's longtime adviser.

Barr said Jarrett was as if the “Muslim Brotherhood and the Planet of the Apes had a baby.”

Jarrett is black and born in Iran.

The planned second season of the rebooted Roseanne was canceled.

Barr later apologized to Jarrett and “all Americans … for making a bad joke about her politics and her appearance.”