A Netflix documentary has put Jay Leno back in the spotlight, and Rosie O’Donnell is calling him out for a joke he cracked at a contestant’s expense.
In an Aug. 19 Instagram post, O’Donnell criticized a resurfaced clip from “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” calling the former late-night host “mean” for mocking a contestant from “The Biggest Loser.”
The moment, revisited in Netflix’s new docuseries “Fit for TV: The Reality of the Biggest Loser,” showed Season Eight competitor Tracey Yukich tearfully recalling how Leno once read aloud death threats she had received from viewers as part of a 2009 comedy segment.
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