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"Howard Stern&amp;#039;s hiring as a judge on America&amp;#039;s Got Talent has elicited calls for a boycott of the series. The Parents Television Council (PTC) has publicly urged NBC not to hire Stern, and the organisation later condemned the Peacock Network when Stern officially joined America&amp;#039;s Got Talent in December. The moral values group have purportedly now sent a letter to 91 of America&amp;#039;s Got Talent&amp;#039;s advertisers urging them not to support the series. In the letter, which was obtained by TMZ, the PTC cite Stern&amp;#039;s controversial comments about former American Idol star Fantasia as proof that he is unfit for family television. Stern is alleged to have said of the singer: &amp;quot;Hey Fantasia, you&amp;#039;re not getting little boys hard. Nobody&amp;#039;s beating off to you. Little boys want boners. They want a Britney Spears or a Rihanna.&amp;quot;  The PTC also called into question Stern&amp;#039;s qualifications as a talent judge by suggesting that his only expertise is &amp;quot;looking at insecure, naked young women and telling them whether or not they were hot enough to pose for Playboy&amp;quot;. NBC has not yet commented on the PTC&amp;#039;s campaign. Stern recently touted his abilities as a talent evaluator by insisting that he is the America&amp;#039;s Got Talent &amp;quot;judge that America agrees with&amp;quot;. America&amp;#039;s Got Talent returns for a seventh season next Monday (May 14) on NBC. Watch Howard Stern announce his America&amp;#039;s Got Talent hiring below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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