Nick Cannon walked away from a $4.5 Million paycheck and he’s still cool! Cannon hosted America’s Got Talent for eight seasons, but quit after Season 12 after NBC threatened to fire him for ridiculing the network in his Showtime comedy special.
In a conversation with Yahoo Entertainment a year after the scandal, Cannon says he has no regrets and calls the move “probably one of the best decisions” of his career.
“It was super-controversial for some time … but it was a freedom-of-speech process and me standing firm for my own beliefs and culturally who I am, and really for all the employees who have been thumb-pressed by their bosses,” Cannon says, discussing the importance of adhering to his brand. “I kind of stood up and said, ‘Yo, I was threatened for some content that I created.’ And they wanted me to shape up and get in line and watch my choice of words or how I speak about the network. … I was threatened to be fired. I told them, ‘You can’t fire a boss. I quit!’”
