WGAW president Meredith Stiehm says there’s a difference within the backlash and fury over communicate display hosts like Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Hudson and Bill Maher returning, and that’s that simplest one among them is a Writers Guild member.

Right through a short lived interview on Thursday for CNN’s The Lead With Jake Tapper, Stiehm addressed the grievance that a couple of Hollywood hosts have confronted as they’ve introduced plans to renew manufacturing on WGA-covered presentations just about 140 days into the continued collision.

For the WGA chief, backlash and accusations of scabbing are other for the ones like Maher and SAG-AFTRA member Barrymore, who on Friday presented some other, similarly criticized, statement on her choice to go back her self-titled sunlight hours communicate display to the breeze regardless of the AMPTP and WGA no longer but having a unused promise.

“There is a distinction between Bill Maher and the others because he is a Writers Guild member. The others, I believe, are SAG members, and they may have waivers to do the shows. I’m not sure. But he’s a Writers Guild member, and he’s going back to work, so yes, a lot of people are saying that’s scabbing,” she stated. “There’s definitely some anger that he’s doing that.”

Stiehm went directly to echo some degree according to positive hosts’ selections to renew amid an ongoing paintings stoppage nearest hosts like Maher, and Barrymore once more these days, have pointed to in need of to get their lower-paid crewmembers again to paintings regardless of alternative presentations and their employees having to stay paused.

“There are other hosts of shows that are taking care of their shows by paying for them themselves,” she advised Tapper. “We’re all worried about our crews, and the ripple effect that the work stoppage has created.”

On Wednesday, Maher announced over X (the platform previously referred to as Twitter), that his display Actual Date can be coming again “sans writers or writing.”

“It has been five months, and it is time to bring people back to work. The writers have important issues that I sympathize with and hope they are addressed to their satisfaction, but they are not the only people with issues, problems and concerns,” he wrote. “I’m not prepared to lose an entire year and see so many below-the-line people suffer so much.”

Maher added that once the display returns, he plans to “honor the spirit of the strike by not doing a monologue” and alternative scripted parts just like the “New Rules” section.

Inside the year day, Maher, Barrymore, The Jennifer Hudson Show and The Talk, which can be all WGA-covered presentations, have introduced that they’re going to start manufacturing as soon as once more regardless of the paintings stoppage which started Might 2. The Drew Barrymore Show and The Talk have already been met with pickets, with pickets for The Jennifer Hudson Display expected.

In a prior commentary responding to Maher’s announcement, the WGA stated the Actual Date host’s “choice to proceed again at the breeze life his Guild is on collision is disappointing.

“If he goes forward with his plan, he needs to honor more than ‘the spirit of the strike,’” it persevered. “As a WGA member, Bill Maher is obligated to follow the strike rules and not perform any writing services. It is difficult to imagine how Real Time can go forward without a violation of WGA strike rules taking place. WGA will be picketing this show.”