NY1 Weatherman Wants Job Back After 'Revenge Porn' Webcam Leak

NEW YORK CITY — A high-profile NY1 weatherman fired over leaked nude photos from an adult webcam site says he was the target of revenge porn and that he wants his job back, according to posts and a report.

Erick Adame received a deluge of support after taking to Instagram Monday to explain that his sudden disappearance from the airwaves was linked to the leak sent to his bosses at NY1 and his mother.

"But, let me be clear about something: I don't apologize for being openly gay or for being sex-positive," Adame wrote. "Those are gifts and I have no shame about them."

The Instagram post coincides with Adame's lawsuit which seeks to force the webcam site to identify the source of the leak.

A representative with Charter Communications, which runs NY1, declined to comment.

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The Emmy-nominated meteorologist's unapologetic stance about his private sexual life drew a deluge of support on social media, culminating in a message-shift Tuesday first reported by the New York Post.

Adame's reps told the Post the meteorologist was the victim of revenge porn and urged NY1 to reconsider their decision to let him go.

“His real dream would be to come back to the job he has always loved for the last decade-and-a-half,” crisis manager Howard Bragman told the Post. “Call it crazy, call it naïve, call it far-fetched."

Supporters include prominent New York City politicians and entertainers including former gubernatorial candidate and "Sex and the City" star Cynthia Nixon, Brooklyn Assemblymember Yuh-Line Niou and state Sen. Brad Hoylman.

Erick Adame fired for being a victim of revenge porn. @ny1 should be ashamed of itself. If we fired everyone who sent nudes the economy would collapse in a day. https://t.co/yOI0ISjWzS
— john teufel esq (@JohnTeufelNYC) September 20, 2022

How is this a fireable offense? How is this not discrimination? How is @NY1 setting this precedent? How is nobody actually defending Erick against these leaks of his personal life where he didn’t do anything to apologize for? How is it news? Why is this public shaming ok? https://t.co/G6gfCzLu4v
— Yuh-Line Niou (@yuhline) September 20, 2022

Dear @NY1 — yours is not to judge your employee’s private, consensual sexual activities, but how he reports the weather. This looks and smells a lot like a civil rights violation and as an LGBTQ NYer I am particularly troubled by it. Please reinstate Erick Adame now.🌈 https://t.co/8qaQrFvyv2
— Cynthia Nixon (@CynthiaNixon) September 20, 2022

Erick Adame is the victim of somebody wishing to do him and his family harm.

It’s an outrage that @ny1 would fire him for private, consensual conduct and an affront to the #LGBTQ community that he’s not yet been reinstated. https://t.co/wgSYmZX9aD
— Senator Brad Hoylman (@bradhoylman) September 20, 2022

Adame, in his Instagram post, wrote he hoped to be back on television. He pleaded with news directors across the country.

"Please judge me on the hundreds, thousands of hours of television that I am so proud of and that my employers have always commended me for, and not the couple of minutes of salacious video that is probably going to soon define me in our 'click-bait' culture," he wrote.

Adame has received at least one job offer upon news breaking that he'd lost his gig at NY1 — the adult site CamSoda sent out a release stating is willing to pay him up to $250,000 to report the weather in any way he likes, whether "clothed, scantily clad, or entirely naked."