Chris Hardwick is returning to both his gigs at NBC after being accused of sexual and emotional abuse by a former girlfriend.
The TV personality will host the game show "The Wall" once production resumes in the fall and will also appear as a guest judge on "America's Got Talent" next Tuesday, the Daily News has learned.
Confirmation of his return to the network comes less than two months after his ex-girlfriend, Chloe Dykstra, penned an essay in which she claimed a former boyfriend regularly tried to control her and that she "let him sexually assault" her.
She did not identify the boyfriend by name, but shared multiple details indicating she was referring to Hardwick, including saying he "grew from a mildly successful podcaster to a powerhouse CEO of his own company" and that he was nearly 20 years her senior.
Hardwick, 46, denied the allegations in a statement shortly after Dykstra, 29, published her essay to Medium in mid-June, saying he was "blindsided" and "devastated" by her claims.
NBC said shortly after the accusations that it would "assess" the situation. The network's decision to keep Hardwick comes a week after AMC reinstated the TV personality as the host of its "The Walking Dead" talk show "Talking Dead" following an investigation.
Dykstra said in a statement after AMC reinstated Hardwick that she "never set out to ruin the career of the person I spoke about" and that she opted not to participate in AMC's probe.
"I have said what I wanted to say on the matter, and I wish to move on with my life. ... I do not believe in an eye for an eye, and therefore I have only shared my evidence with those who I felt should see it," Dykstra said in a Twitter post last week.
Dykstra _ a popular personality in the cosplay industry _ did not respond to a request for comment Wednesday.
Hardwick rose to fame as the founder of the Nerdist website and its flagship The Nerdist Podcast. Nerdist Industries scrubbed Hardwick's name from the website hours after Dykstra posted her essay, and his name has not re-appeared on the site since.
