While all appeared normal on the surface for the smiling Shell clan, an investigation was underway in New York, with interviews stretching as far as Abu Dhabi. As the band played such hits as “What’s My Age Again,” a giant sign behind Hoppus loomed with the words “Speed Bump Ahead,” offering an apt preview of what was to come. A career-halting bomb was about to drop that would later read more like a discarded “30 Rock” plotline in which Jack Donaghy gets caught in a relationship with an anchor and is promptly bounced by his Kabletown bosses.
In reality, Shell had been engaged in a nearly decade-long extramarital affair with CNBC anchor Hadley Gamble and was now being accused of sexual harassment.Nine days after the Coachella excursion, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts would deliver the news to Shell that the investigation corroborated the complaint. Shell was fired, effective immediately. His sprawling kingdom of entertainment and news assets was pulled out from under him, leaving a town that has become desensitized to C-suite sex scandals bamboozled.
Source: NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell Firing Involved an Affair, Egos and Putin – Variety