Leaked BET emails support B. Scott’s discrimination claim

There is a major update in B. Scott’s discrimination claim.

The bitter legal battle between BET/Viacom and media personality B.Scott just got real. Emails allegedly sent between network executives before and after the June 2013 BET Awards lend credibility to media maven B. Scott.

At last year’s BET Awards, B. Scott was asked to host the pre-show before the big show, but the media personality claimed executives didn’t want the fierce B.Scott fans know him for. They wanted him to “tone down”.

Scott appeared in his garb in the first segment but claims he was then ordered to change his clothes and remove his makeup. He did obliged but was never put back on the air. He was replaced by Adrienne Bailon.

The network later apologized citing it was a ‘mis-communication’. However, the apology was not good enough for Scott, and he filed a lawsuit against BET for discrimination on the basis of gender identity, gender expression and sexual orientation.

On Thursday, TMZ leaked emails of BET executives discussing Scott’s appearance before and after the show. Prior to the event, BET Music Programming President Stephen Hill allegely wrote a pointed email before the show … “I don’t want ‘looking like a woman B Scott.’ I want tempered B Scott.”

Network VP Rhonda Cowan offered help, “I can speak to him about being less ‘womanly.”

“The spin should be he was late for a live show and subsequently replaced and it would have been awkward in a live show to have the person assuming his role removed and him inserted,” another executive said, per TMZ. “Unless we can make public the reason we didn’t want him dressed the way he normally does, I would stay away from suits, suit selections, etc.”

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