<figure id="attachment_406598" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-406598" style="width: 1856px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="748ddf96"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/12/7b3ba2f7d899f96c185e4fe3d9fe737d-rotated.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-406598" class="wp-caption-text">Masahiro Nakai, whose regular TV show was reportedly cancelled at the last minute</figcaption></figure>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> What have you been watching all this time &#8230;&#8230;?&#8221;</span></p>
<p> Former SMAP member Masahiro Nakai (52) has been the subject of a number of disappointments.</p>
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<p> The December 19 issue of &#8220;Josei Seven&#8221; reported on Nakai&#8217;s troubles with women. This was followed by sports papers and the Weekly Bunshun, and the entertainment industry is experiencing a major shock at the end of the year.</p>
<h2> Scandals in the past were &#8220;covered up&#8221; by Johnny&#8217;s s office.</h2>
<p> According to reports, Nakai got into trouble with a Fuji Television staff member, Xko, at a drinking party last June and paid her a settlement of 90 million yen. The details are unknown because it happened behind closed doors, but the amount suggests that it was a serious problem.</p>
<p> In fact, there have been whispers in the industry since this fall that Nakai&#8217;s safety was in jeopardy. According to a source at a TV station,</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> &#8220;There were more details circulating than what is being reported. However, at that time, no one expected it to come out.</span></p>
<p> According to the report, &#8220;Nakai is a top executive in the entertainment industry.</p>
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<p> Nakai is a super-successful person who reigns at the top of the entertainment industry. He has appeared on &#8220;The MC3&#8221; and &#8220;Masahiro Nakai&#8217;s Friday Smile&#8221; (both on TBS), &#8220;The! Sekai Ohten News&#8221; (NTV), &#8220;Masahiro Nakai no Satsukina Kai&#8221; (TV Asahi), and &#8220;Dareka to Nakai&#8221; (Fuji TV). In addition to these, &#8220;Nakai no Mado&#8221; on NTV, which aired until &#8217;19, was revived for a special year-end program.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> If something were to happen to Mr. Nakai, it would affect all these programs and the staff involved in them. That&#8217;s why the TV station would be reluctant (to report it). We have already recorded the year-end special program. &#8230;&#8230; I think Mr. Nakai himself had an unfounded confidence that &#8216;I&#8217;ll be fine.</span></p>
<p> When he was a member of the former Johnny&#8217;s&#8217;s office, the &#8220;Rumor Truth&#8221; once broke the &#8220;abortion scandal,&#8221; but the huge office&#8217;s deterrent power worked and the major media rarely covered the story.</p>
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<h2>Nakai is &#8220;real time.&#8221;</h2>
<p> However, Johnny&#8217;s no longer exists. It was forced to dismantle due to the &#8220;sexual assault issues&#8221; of its late founder, Janney Kitagawa (87 years old), which erupted in March of last year.</p>
<p> Nakai left the agency at the end of March 2008, before it was dismantled, but he has never mentioned the series of problems with Mr. Janney.</p>
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<p><span class="strongInContent"> He said, &#8220;My old office, Johnny&#8217;s, was dismantled because of a sexual scandal at the top. If you saw that, you would normally try to avoid similar troubles at all costs. The allegation of sexual assault by his good friend Hitoshi Matsumoto, 61, of &#8220;Downtown&#8221; was several years ago, but Nakai&#8217;s story was in real time. It is only natural that TV people would say, &#8220;Haven&#8217;t you learned anything? &#8216; (a source in the entertainment industry).</span></p>
<p> It is not a matter of being lax on the side, but a simple lack of awareness of the crisis. It boils down to this.</p>
<p> The TV industry is already moving to &#8220;get rid of Nakai. Because of the timing, the year-end special featuring Nakai cannot be skipped, but it is expected that programs will be replaced one after another after the new year begins &#8220;normal operations.</p>
<p> Friday Digital also reported that the taping of &#8220;Kinsuma,&#8221; which was scheduled to air on January 10, the first program of the new year, was canceled at the last minute.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> It is said that several clients are reluctant to air the commercials as well. If this happens, there is nothing more we can do.</span></p>
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<p> The scandal at the end of the year brought a resentful response from the TV crew, &#8220;Screw you! The scandal at the end of the year has caused a chorus of resentment from the TV crew.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> Mr. Nakai is feeling a keen sense of responsibility for the trouble he is causing to many of his staff members. There are rumors that he will make a &#8216;major decision&#8217; at the beginning of the new year.</span></p>
<p> says a reporter in charge of entertainment for a sports paper. It seems that the tremors will continue&#8230;.</p>


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