‘The Undoing’ Episode 5 ‘Trial by Fury’: Was Jeffrey Toobin's face edited out from the CNN broadcast?

A prominent writer and CNN's chief legal analyst, Toobin was fired from The New Yorker after he accidentally exposed himself and was caught masturbating during a Zoom call
PUBLISHED NOV 23, 2020
‘The Undoing’ (HBO) and Jeffrey Toobin (Getty Images)
‘The Undoing’ (HBO) and Jeffrey Toobin (Getty Images)

Who killed Elena Alves (Matilda De Angelis) in ‘The Undoing’. The mystery is getting more complicated with each episode and even though all evidence points to Jonathan Fraser (Hugh Grant), he is trying his best to prove his innocence. Will the HBO series follow the novel it was inspired by or twist the ending?

In Jean Hanff Korelitz's novel, ‘You Should Have Known’, Grace receives a letter from Jonathan with his confession that he indeed killed Elena and the mystery is solved. But will Jonathan manage to escape in the series or did someone else commit the crime? As the fifth episode ‘Trial by Fury’ began, it shed light on the court trial as Haley Fitzgerald (Noma Dumezweni) presented her defense in favor of Jonathan. 

(HBO Max)

Fans seem to have noticed a bizarre detail during the episode and are wondering if Jeffrey Toobin's face was snipped out from the episode. A prominent writer and CNN's chief legal analyst, he was fired from The New Yorker after he accidentally exposed himself and was caught masturbating during a Zoom call. Toobin issued an apology, saying he genuinely thought he had turned the camera off when the incident occurred on October 15. Reportedly, his colleagues saw him masturbating on camera during a break on a Zoom video call. In a statement he said, “I made an embarrassingly stupid mistake, believing I was off-camera. I apologize to my wife, family, friends and co-workers. I believed I was not visible on Zoom. I thought no one on the Zoom call could see me. I thought I had muted the Zoom video.”

“Did they cut Jeffrey Toobin’s face from the CNN broadcast?” one fan posted and another wondered, “Was that Jeffrey Toobin on #TheUndoing? A brief return.” A third commented, “I bet they edited out Jeffrey Toobin’s face,” and a fourth posted, “Glad they didn’t use Jeffrey Toobin commenting via Zoom.” Another posted, “Jeffrey Toobin cameo!”



 



 



 



 



 

‘The Undoing’ premiered on HBO on October 25, 2020, and more episodes in the six-episodic series will air every Sunday from 9 pm ET to 10 pm ET. Catch the final episode ‘The Bloody Truth’ on Sunday, November 29, 2020.

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