French TV has pulled hit show France's Got Talent after its top judge, Canadian producer Gilbert Rozon, was accused of sexual assault and harassment, reports The Telegraph.
Mr Rozon stepped down as head of the 'Just for Laughs' comedy festival in Montreal on Wednesday, after a comedian publicly accused him of being an "aggressor" following allegations from a number of women.
Montreal police have opened an investigation into an alleged sexual aggression involving Mr Rozon that took place in Paris in 1994, Radio Canada reported.
Nine women alleged in interviews with Canadian newspaper Le Devoir, they had been victims of sexual harassment or aggression involving Mr Rozon over the past three decades.
A former intern at the Just For Laughs festival also told TVA Nouvelles that she had been victim of two "incidents" during an interview with Mr Rozon in 2010.
Consequently, French private channel M6 announced it was suspending France's Got Talent - which was due to air next week - "without judging the truth" of the accusations against Mr Rozon, the Simon Cowell figure on the show's panel of judges, famed for his bitter judgments. It will replace it with Gallic equivalents of Kitchen Nightmares and A Place in the Sun.
Since 2006, Mr Rozon had been a stalwart of the show, now in its 12 season, and is a household name in France.
The 62-year-old impresario is the latest powerful man to be caught in the fallout from the Harvey Weinstein scandal, after the Hollywood mogul was accused of decades of sexual abuse and harassment.