Do we like Steve Harvey?
Our score: 7 out of 10. Decent on the right side of most things, with one joke row he apologised for and a Trump meeting he says he regrets.
Steve Harvey is the guy who went from the stand-up circuit to running mornings on radio, daytime talk and Family Feud. He's also a man who says the telly version of him isn't the whole picture. He told Paper magazine he wanted people to see the work, setbacks and faith behind the success. Honest admission: the early-years detail I could open is thin, so this column leans on what I could verify.
His messiest stoush was in January 2017, when he mocked a dating book aimed at Asian men on his talk show. Asian-American lawmakers drafted a letter calling for an apology, and he posted a note saying he meant no malice. It's a real stain, but one episode he apologised for, not a pattern of the same joke.
The other blow-up was meeting Donald Trump at Trump Tower that same month to talk inner-city housing. Harvey told The Hollywood Reporter he should have listened to his wife and skipped it, and said the backlash was “so vicious that it really threw me.” He didn't endorse Trump; the Informer reports he told him he'd campaigned for Hillary Clinton.
On the harm check: I found no reliably sourced Harvey quote attacking LGBTQ+ or trans people, women, migrants or the climate. Plenty of content-farm pages hint at it, but none gave a quote or a date, so I've left them out. He hosted Celebrity Family Feud's first all-trans team, led by Laverne Cox, in July 2025. A tabloid, Radar, ran an anonymous-source story about backlash, which is tabloid territory.
Nothing new on him lately that I could confirm. The 2026 coverage I found was mostly Family Feud roasting and a pile of death, accident and split rumours from junk sites, which I've ignored. He's reported to be continuing his radio show through the end of 2026.
The good stuff is real. His foundation's 2011 gala raised over $600,000 for a mentoring weekend for young men, and he got a Hollywood Walk of Fame star in 2013. That's a long run of putting money and time behind young people.