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Many people in Hollywood’s Thirty-Mile Zone (that’s what “TMZ” stands for, folks) may be afraid to take on gossip website TMZ and its founder Harvey Levin, but ex-“American Idol” host Brian Dunkleman is not among them.

After TMZ posted this story revealing that the former TV partner to Ryan Seacrest now drives for Uber, Dunkleman didn’t shy away from injecting a few more facts into the narrative.

“I chose to stop doing standup comedy and started driving an Uber so I could be there for my son as much as he needed after our life as we knew it was destroyed,” Dunkleman wrote on Twitter to TMZ and its boss Harvey Levin. “Print that.”

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“And I make over a grand on a good week motherf–kers,” he added atop the hashtag #HumanBarnacles.

Dunkleman’s girlfriend, Andrea Whitney, also backed her boy up on the social media platform, posting a photo of the former Fox personality cuddling with his son on a hike.

“This is why he’s an Uber driver,” she wrote. “F–k you TMZ.”

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Whitney also included her own hashtag: #ImInLoveWithAnUberDriver, along with a photo of herself in a bikini, captioning it: “This is what an Uber driver’s girlfriend looks like.” She then again verbally flipped off the news and gossip site.

Per TMZ’s story, Dunkleman, who is in the middle of a divorce battle with Kalea Dunkleman, disclosed in court documents that he started driving for Uber in March 2016. Brian and Kalea currently share custody of their five-year-old son, Jackson.

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17. "Rent" (original production)
Opened: April 29, 1996
Closed: Sept. 7, 2008
Gross: $274.2 million
16. "The Producers"
Opened: April 19, 2001
Closed: April 22, 2007
Gross: $288.4 million
15. "Mary Poppins"
Opened: Nov. 16, 2006
Closed: March 3, 2013
Gross: $294.6 million
14. "Miss Saigon" (original production)
Opened: April 11, 1991
Closed: Jan. 28, 2001
Gross: $298.7 million
13. "Kinky Boots"
Opened: April 4, 2013
Closed: April 7, 2019
Gross to date: $319.0 million
12. "Aladdin"
Opened: March 20, 2014
Closed: Still running
Gross to date: $404.9 million
11. "Les Misérables" (original production)
Opened: March 12, 1987
Closed: May 18, 2003
Gross: $406.3 million
10. "Cats" (original production)
Opened: Oct. 7, 1982
Closed: Sept. 10, 2000
Gross: $407.7 million
9. "Beauty and the Beast"
Opened: April 18, 1994
Closed: July 29, 2007
Gross: $429.2 million
8. "Hamilton"
Opened: Aug. 6, 2015
Closed: Still running
Gross to date: $529.3 million
7. "Jersey Boys"
Opened: Nov. 6, 2005
Closed: January 15, 2017
Gross: $558.4 million
6. "The Book of Mormon"
Opened: March 24, 2011
Closed: Still running
Gross to date: $615.1 million
5. "Mamma Mia!"
Opened: Oct. 18, 2001
Closed: Sept. 12, 2015
Gross: $624.4 million
4. "Chicago" (revival)
Opened: Nov. 14, 1996
Closed: Still running
Gross: $654.7 million
3. "The Phantom of the Opera"
Opened: Jan. 26, 1988
Closed: Still running
Gross to date: $1.2 billion
2. "Wicked"
Opened: Oct. 30, 2003
Closed: Still running
Gross: $1.3 billion
1. "The Lion King"
Opened: Nov. 13, 1997
Closed: Still running
Gross to date: $1.6 billion