Kelsey Grammer, best known for his role as Dr. Frasier Crane in Cheers and Frasier, has recently said that not only does he still support Donald Trump but that he will also be supporting the Republican candidate in the 2024 presidential election.
The prolific actor’s comments were made during an interview with BBC Radio 4’s Today with Justin Webb, which quickly prompted a knee-jerk reaction from Paramount Plus UK’s public relations team, who reportedly shut down the interview as soon as Grammer mentioned Trump.
Yahoo! News reports that Webb asked Grammer whether he was still supporting Trump, to which the actor replied, “I am and I’ll let that be the end of it.”
The radio journalist would go on to recall his experience during the interview with Grammer, declaring, “I have to say actually Kelsey Grammer himself was perfectly happy to go on talking about it. The Paramount Plus PR people, less happy that he talked about it at some length so we… They decided we’d had plenty of time for our interview.”
“But I should stress that he was perfectly happy to talk about why he supports Donald Trump and still does in the forthcoming election,” Webb added.
A staunch Republican, Grammer is one of the few actors in Hollywood who has openly made his political views public. In 2019, during an appearance on PBS’s Amanpour and Company, the renowned actor was unsuccessfully baited into expressed disapproval for the 45th President halfway through of his tenure.
“I was wondering whether you thought the sort of, many people believe this sort of fabric is being disrupted,” Amanpour asked Grammer, prompting the actor to reply with, “Well, I think fabric being disrupted is a good thing.”
Upon being pressed on whether he really believed it was a good thing, Grammer elaborated, “I don’t think Washington didn’t do us any favors for the last 50, 60 years, I think they’ve all been sort of the same party, the same bunch of clowns, the same bunch of really unpleasant people.”
In 2012, during an appearance on ABC News’ Popcorn with Peter Travers, the actor entertained the idea that his political affiliation may have been the reason he wasn’t nominated for an Emmy for his role in the political drama series Boss.
“You know, it is a funny thing; you spend a lot of time racking your brain about it. And I finally, I did think — part of me thought [that] maybe, you know, this being an openly Republican guy in Hollywood might have something to do with it,” Grammer told Travers.
He elaborated, “I do know that there is a hallmark of tolerance in my community, out there, but [it] may or may not be true, I don’t know,” to which the host added, “It’s so strange because the idea that being a Republican is a dirty secret when half of the country is.”
“It is,” the actor agreed, jokingly adding, “It is the worst thing you could be. But, you know what, it’s also in my nature. The thing is, I have always been a rebel; if you ever tell me the way to think I’m bound to think the other way so, I live in Hollywood so, what else would I be?”
Grammer’s most recent work include a last-minute cameo in Marvel Studios and Disney’s box office flop The Marvels, wherein the actor reprised his role of Beast from X-Men: The Last Stand, and the Frasier revival for Paramount Plus.