Detroit TV anchor caught on video calling her boss a bitch in profanity-laced newsroom blowup

A fired Detroit TV news anchor was caught on video calling her boss a “bitch” during a heated newsroom confrontation — before fuming that she was “so done with her antics” and complaining that the woman was “telling on me every five seconds.”The anchor, Taryn Asher, was recording the PSA when the tense newsroom exchange unfolded at WJBK-TV Fox 2 Detroit, where she was pulled from the air in November of last year.Asher is now suing the station for sex discrimination and retaliation, while Fox claims her removal followed “unprofessional workplace behavior” and “outbursts.”The video, first flagged by FTVLive and Deadline Detroit, shows Asher apparently responding to someone off-camera as a dispute develops over scripts and the workflow surrounding the recording.“I am.I’m in Amy’s script, the Amy’s Angels one,” Asher says.“There was—the second thing didn’t make sense, so I was just trying to fix that part and…”“I know, but I didn’t have time because we have to do this, so I was still reading it,” she continues.Asher then complains about having to wait for scripts to be reviewed while she is preparing to go on camera.“See, I mean, I can’t wait for you to go through them all and then I go through them, because then I’m already getting ready by then,” she says.“But this time we had to do the PSAs, so…”The exchange then turns nasty.“I don’t think you are.

You’re walking out really angry,” Asher says.“Bitch.”Moments later, Asher says: “Can I please finish what I’m going to say?”“What the f–k.Grow up.”She then vents about the colleague: “I’m so done with her antics, telling on me every five seconds.

I’m done.”Fox says Asher was pulled from the air because of her conduct toward colleagues — not because she is a woman or because she complained about discrimination.In its Aug.14 response to Asher’s lawsuit, Fox said multiple employees complained about her behavior in the week bef...