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Constance Grady, you write about culture and celebrities for Vox.

It looks like a lot of celebrities who face serious sexual harassment allegations and sometimes worse.

Are coming into the spotlight, public life this week.

Can we run through some of them?

Who's coming back?

Well, what we're seeing right now is kind of like a second wave of men who've been accused of

sexual misconduct sort of putting out feelers about coming back.

We're seeing Matt Lauer, who was approached by some fans and who told them that he's very busy

being a dad right now, but he expects to be back on television very soon.

Matt Lauer was fired from and we see a few months ago for allegedly sexually harassing

quite a few of his employees.

And we're also seeing Luis CK, who actually admitted to masturbating in front of a lot of young

up-and-coming comedians. He just did his first performance in several months

the comedy seller in New York.

You mentioned that this is sort of the second wave of rumors sort of swirling around that some

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