"I had never seen this before,” Hedda Muskat, who worked on Ellen for its first year, tells The Wrap. “I had never been around a toxic host.” She recalls DeGeneres giggling when executive producer Ed Glavin allegedly screamed at a staff member. “She crossed her legs up on the chair and she said, ‘Well, I guess every production needs their dog,'" said Muskat. “And from then we knew. Ed was going to be the barking dog — her dog. You could just see everybody’s faces go stiff. We’re professionals; we’re adults. We don’t need a dog to get us to do our jobs. … She was the only one giggling.”
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