“This is not who we are, and we took this very seriously,” said Try Guys member Eugene Lee Yang in a video the group posted today addressing the removal of longtime member Ned Fulmer. Yang, along with remaining members Keith Habersberger and Zach Kornfeld confirmed what fans had suspected: Fulmer, who is married, had an affair with an unnamed staffer.
“Ned had engaged in conduct unbecoming of our team,” said Habersberger.
The result is that, to the extent possible, Fulmer’s presence in the group’s videos is being erased, both going forward and retrospectively.
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“There are several videos that we’ve deemed as fully unreleasable. You will never see them and that’s due to his involvement,” revealed Kornfeld.
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But there are also a few upcoming videos that are sponsored and will include the former member, ostensibly due to contractual obligations.
You can watch their sometimes emotional announcement below.
Fulmer was missing from recent Try Guys episodes and his wife, Ariel Fulmer, has likewise recently been absent from the podcast she hosts with the other members’ wives.
The duo’s marital status is relevant not just to those businesses, but also to the podcast they co-host, called Baby Steps, which focuses on their experience raising their two sons. Last year they also published The Date Night Cookbook together.
The Try Guys began in 2014 as a video project at Buzzfeed. In 2018, the group set up its own independent production company, 2nd Try LLCset, and launched its own YouTube channel. Since then, The Try Guys channel has amassed close to 8 million subscribers and nearly 2 billion views. The group has 11 spinoffs currently airing, plus the six-episode first season of the Food Network show No Recipe Road Trip, which premiered on Discovery+ and Food Network on August 31.
The guy cheated on his wife. Why are they carrying on as if he got caught in bed with a 12 year old? Hysterical much?
He was sleeping with an employee, who could have sued the company if Ned ever ended things. Employees could have sued the company if they found out and decided the employee had been given special treatment or promotions over them just because she was sleeping with a boss. She could have sued them if they ever fired her for a reason completely unrelated. He cost them money and could have cost them everything they built.
Maybe if cheated on his wife with someone who wasn’t a subordinate, they wouldn’t be so “hysterical”.
“Maybe if cheated on his wife with someone who wasn’t a subordinate, they wouldn’t be so ‘hysterical’.” Stop it. Remove the guy if the cheating doesn’t line up with some “morality clause”, but the over-emoting in the video is beyond absurd. The way they are carrying on you’d think there was more to this than that.
These guys have been friends with both Ned and his wife for years. They are fully involved in his life and are probably extremely upset their friend would cheat on their wife, who is also their friend. Its not hysterical to be disappointed that someone made a huge mistake and hurt someone you loved, turned out to not be the person you thought they were, or put your business in jeopardy. Not everyone is so laise-fair with cheating, especially when they’re in the middle of it.
The “something more than that” is that he potentially risked killing their company and still may have. They risked everything to build a new company on their own and if it falls, it hurts all of them. This channel is now spooky into a “pre-Ned” and “post-Ned” era, and if you think that doesn’t affect their bottom line, you’re nuts.
LOL @ people calling this an overreaction. This is a private company. No one would complain if he was fired simply for underperforming metrics. But having a messy workplace affair with a subordinate, threatening workplace culture, opening the company up to legal action from the subordinate, creating a massive scandal on the internet dragging the company’s name thru the mud. Suddenly firing is an overreaction?? Being fired =/= being cancelled.
Maybe if these guys keep milking the press on this non-news story people will actually learn who the Try Guys are.
Aww, you’re jealous of their success.
Is cheating a cool thing to do?…No, of course not. But it’s also not illegal. He had a consensual relationship with a grow woman, who isn’t accusing him of any kind of abuse or pressuring her into anything. This is a crazy overreaction.
No. Ned was a senior executive/owner of the company. He had an affair with someone who reported to him. That’s a major corporate no-no because of the imbalance of power. Companies have been sued because of that. Either the person involved or others in the workplace could sue for sexual harassment or discrimination. For instance, other employees may feel that because they did not engage in a sexual relationship with their manager, they did not receive career enhancements (mentorship, promotions, etc.). A few years ago, Boeing’s CEO was fired for a similar relationship.
Also, the Try Guys brand is family friendly. Ned Fulmer, in particular, built his onscreen role as the loyal husband and loving father. This is all essential to how the company markets itself.
The question is how much money has this cost the company? The Try Guys have a new show on the Food Channel that had been airing in primetime. How do you think the Food Channel feels about being associated with a scandal?
This is a mess. Fulmer screwed up badly. I feel sad for his wife and kids because he’s not going to be able to get a similar job anytime soon.
She didn’t report him…she got busted cheating on her Fiancé who she had been with for more than 10 years – she’s just as bad as him. She knew what she was doing, lied multiple times saying it was over, and now multiple innocents are having to deal with the fallout.
Nerds? I don’t think so. It’s absolutely what the Try Guys aren’t about. There are young adults that look up to these guys. What they are about is being inclusive and having fun trying new things WITHOUT hurting others. I hope Ned takes timeout to get some counseling/help… I really do. I feel for all of them. This is very sad.
“There are young adults that look up to these guys.” ROFL, no.
I’m 24 and yeah. get a grip