Masahiro Nakai “contacted” the TV stations in advance…but the TV stations were looking the other way because of the “resolved issue” and the “special treatment” of the big-name celebrities.
If only Mr. Nakai had been aware of the retirement-level scandal.
Masahiro Nakai, 52, has disappeared from the entertainment world. It all started with a woman trouble reported in the December 19 issue of “Josei Seven” last year. About two and a half months have passed since then.
The presidents of all major commercial TV networks except Fuji Television and TV Tokyo recently held regular press conferences in rapid succession to review how they handled the situation at the time.
What NTV, TBS, and TV Asahi had in common was that they were informed in advance by Nakai’s side that the article would be published before the release of Women’s Seven. At that point, the details of the trouble were not explained.
NTV broadcasts “The! Sekai Ohten News” for NTV, “Masahiro Nakai’s Friday Smile Tatsu” and “THE MC3” for TBS, and “Masahiro Nakai’s Saturday Night Club” for TV Asahi. A TV station official recalls.
At the time, we didn’t imagine that it would cause such a big commotion. If Nakai himself had been aware that it was a retirement-level scandal, he would have announced at that point that he would not appear on the show. However, I am told that no such announcement was made.”
TV Tokyo, which aired “Entertainment World All-Star Kusayakyu 2024” on December 30 last year, did not receive any advance notice from Nakai’s side, perhaps because it was a one-off program, according to President Ichiro Ishikawa,
President Ichiro Ishikawa said, “I first learned of this incident through a report in a weekly magazine in late December.
President Ichiro Ishikawa said, “I first learned of this incident through a weekly magazine report in mid-December.
The tide turned in the December 26 issue of Shukan Bunshun. The headline read “SEX SCANDAL,” and it became clear that the nature of the trouble was sexual in nature and that the victim woman’s anger had not abated.
The headline of the Women’s Seven, which reported the news, read, “Masahiro Nakai overcame women’s troubles with huge sums of money. The details of what happened were withheld, but it was written that a settlement had been reached with a 90 million yen settlement fee and that the trouble had been “resolved. It is not surprising that the mood was optimistic, saying, “If this is the content of the article, it should be …….” However, according to the content of the Bunshun article, although a settlement had been reached, the woman’s side was not satisfied, and there were indications that more specific reports would follow. Moreover, the term “sex scandal” was heavily used in the report. In today’s TV industry, sexual problems are not tolerated. All the stations were in an uproar from top to bottom, and they were discussing what to do about Nakai’s program day after day.
