Shepard Smith's Office Romance: A 26-Year-Old Fox Staffer
So what if the object of his affections is half his age? Love is where you find it!
Who cares? I'm sure everybody is fine with that. Most people. ... okay, well it shouldn't affect his fans.
But this?
Shepard Smith Tells Waitress: "Get My Fucking Drink!"
I'm fine with gays. Not so much with bullies.
So what if the object of his affections is half his age? Love is where you find it!
“Yes, that’s Shepard’s boyfriend,” Katya Minskova, the Bathtub Gin waitress Smith berated in March, confirmed to Gawker when shown a photo of Graziano. Another source who had seen them together at the Chelsea speakeasy confirmed Graziano’s identity as well. Both sources say they saw Graziano and Smith together at the bar on multiple occasions, and that they appeared to be romantically involved.
While Smith and Graziano’s boss Roger Ailes, a notorious homophobe *citation?*, was apparently kept in the dark about the relationship—“higher ups had no idea,” a source close to Graziano said—the pair doesn’t appear to have gone to great lengths to keep the workplace romance from their co-workers.
“The people who know the most are [Graziano’s] former coworkers from Fox,” one source told Gawker. “One of the production assistants even saw him getting into Shep’s limo one night earlier this year around 8 p.m. outside Fox, after Shep’s show was over,” the source added.
Indeed, away from Fox, Smith and Graziano appeared together throughout Manhattan, showing up at fratty bars like the Ainsworth in Chelsea and the Village Pourhouse on 3rd Avenue, to watch football when Penn State or Ole Miss (Smith’s alma mater) were playing.
Who cares? I'm sure everybody is fine with that. Most people. ... okay, well it shouldn't affect his fans.
But this?
Shepard Smith Tells Waitress: "Get My Fucking Drink!"
“There was no reason for you to scream at me,” Minskova told Smith.
“Yes, there was. You’re fucking slow. I told you I wanted a second round.”
Smith continued: “Why don’t you take my order right now?”
Minskova tried explaining that the bartender was still mixing the second round, but Smith, visibly angry, told her to cancel it and asked for the check, a duty she passed to another waitress before telling the speakeasy’s manager what had happened.
“I’ve dealt with assholes and drunks before,” said Minskova, who has worked in the service industry for several years. “But nothing like this.”
Smith and his entourage left without leaving a tip, and without apologizing. Minskova wound up quitting a few months later.
I'm fine with gays. Not so much with bullies.