Debra Messing and Eva Longoria called E! on live TV for not paying male and female employees as well. This happened during an interview with the network on the red carpet Golden Globes in Los Angeles on Sunday. E! was recently criticized after host Catt Sadler quit his job with E! After learning, she was paid less than her male counterpart on E! New. Sadler welcomed E! News alongside co-host Jason Kennedy for nearly 12 years until she quit her job at the end of 2017 after discovering Kennedy had "doubled her salary for several years". Debra Messing and Eva Longoria, interviewing E! host Giuliana Rancic on the red carpet, took the opportunity to say that she stood with Sadler and did not support the inequality of remuneration.
"I was so shocked to hear that E! doesn't believe in paying their female co-hosts the same as their male co-hosts. I miss Catt Sadler and so we stand with her. And that’s something that can change tomorrow," Messing, 49, told reporter Giuliana Rancic live on air.
She added: "Time is up. We want diversity. We want intersectional gender parity, we want equal pay. We want people to start having this conversation that women are just as valuable as men."
Debra Messing drags E! (while being interviewed on E!): "I was so shocked to hear that E! doesn't believing in paying their female co-hosts the same as their male co-hosts" pic.twitter.com/HF3B2uhwtF— David Mack (@davidmackau) 7 January 2018
Longoria, 42, also referenced the situation with Sadler when she was interviewed by Ryan Seacrest during E!'s live red carpet coverage.
Flanked by Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman, the former Desperate Housewives star, who is pregnant with her first child, said: "We support gender equity and equal pay and we hope that E! follows that lead with Catt as well."
"We stand with you, Catt," she added.
Messing and Longoria, actresses Jennifer Lawrence and Brie Larson have all spoken out in support of the E! host.
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