Rumors are swirling yet again that BET’s longtime CEO Debra Lee may be preparing to exit after the network’s awards aired Sunday.
“Tons of people from Viacom were saying that her days are numbered,” an insider reportedly revealed to Page Six.
“She’s been running the place, and it’s struggling . . . There are so many layers of internal politics . . . It takes 20 calls to get through one insignificant thing.”
Another source said, “I hear it’s about to go down, and it’s her last BET Awards . . . Morale is bad. She moved to LA, and I believe she’s trying to get into one of the studios.”
It was first reported in May of industry buzz that Lee could be exiting. But a Viacom stated at the time of the new departure rumor: “It simply isn’t true.”
