Try Guys' Keith Habersberger Breaks Silence After Video Resurfaces of Ned Fulmer Dancing with Woman Prior to Cheating Scandal
Try Guys' Keith Habersberger Breaks Silence After Video Resurfaces of Ned Fulmer Dancing with Woman Prior to Cheating Scandal
Tabitha ParentFri, February 27, 2026 at 10:26 PM UTC
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From left: Keith Harbersberger; and Ned FulmerCredit: Keith Habersberger/TikTok; Gary Gershoff/Getty
Keith Habersberger is speaking out as old footage of his former Try Guys colleague, Ned Fulmer, circulates online.In the video, which was originally posted to the platform by TikTok user Fisher Welch, Fulmer can be seen dancing with a woman in a bar, before she lays her head on his chest and he hugs her.Welch added a text overlay over the viewing, in which he claimed, “Now that it’s been a couple years, I think it’s time to [mention] I witnessed Ned from the Try Guys cheating on his wife in real time in Nashville, TN 😳.” The clip, meanwhile, has amassed more than 11 million views and 1.5 million likes. In a follow-up story-time video, Welch said the footage was recorded in 2022 at Jason Aldean’s Nashville bar.That same year, Fulmer, 38, was accused of cheating on his wife Ariel, whom he married in 2012 — an accusation he later confirmed was true in a statement to his Instagram account where he admitted that he had had "a consensual workplace relationship." Rumors had previously swirled on social media alleging Ned was seen out with another woman.However, Habersberger, who worked with Fulmer at entertainment group and media production company The Try Guys (which they co-founded alongside Eugene Lee Yang and Zach Kornfeld) from 2018 to 2022 before Fulmer was ousted, has since posted a video to his personal TikTok account debunking Welch's claims about the video.
Ned Fulmer and Ariel Fulmer pose for a photo together in February 2022.Credit: Ned Fulmer/Instagram
"I try not to get involved in the semi annual internet drama that a former colleague of ours tends to generate on the Internet," Habersberger, who still works for 2nd Try LLC along with Yang and Kornfeld began his video, which was shared to TikTok on Thursday, Feb. 26. "However, there's a video circulating right now that I think I can give some good context to and help assuage some concerns people might have."Going on, Habersberger, 38, confirmed that the video had been taken in March or April of 2022, following the wrap of the Try Guys' first episode of their Food Network TV Show in Nashville."So when I moved to L.A., my goal was to make a TV show, right?" he continued. "So we did that. We had just actually — after two years of pitching and ideating and getting the funds, etcetera — we were making a TV show. And we wrapped our first episode."Habersberger went on to explain that the group had been in Nashville for the weekend. "We were like, we gotta go celebrate. We freaking worked so hard for this. All of us were also friends at this time," Habersberger said in the clip, which now has 4.6 million views."This is six months before the thing went down that, I guess, changes how we all might look at a video like that," Habersberger added, referencing the news of Fulmer's cheating scandal, which came to light in September 2022."But this is a video of Ned and our producer, Rachel, who's been with us since 2018, dancing as friends, hugging and celebrating and being proud of ourselves for making a tv show," Habersberger clarified. "You can see me in the background of that video also just having fun. I'm at a bar celebrating.""A lot of people seem to think that we knew this was happening before it was. We didn't. It really sucked for us, too. So, anyway, that's the info," he added.A spokesperson for Fulmer confirms to PEOPLE that the woman in the Nashville video is Try Guys chief creative officer Rachel Cole — who was a producer with the company at the time — and that the video took place during a team celebration. Representatives for Cole and Habersberger had no additional comment.
Eugene Lee Yang, Zach Kornfeld, Ned Fulmer and Keith Habersberger.Credit: Daniel Zuchnik/WireImage
In a comment in another video posted to Welch's page, one user encouraged him to clear up the speculation posting his video caused on the internet, writing, "Please repost Keith’s story explaining this situation. This stirred up drama unnecessarily when they were just celebrating with their friend. Keith, Zach, Eugene, and Rachel have been through enough."
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Welch acknowledged that Habersberger had cleared up the context behind the video, writing back: "Yes I’m glad he was able to clear things up! Hopefully people will start leaving the other try guys out of this."Following the news of Fulmer's cheating scandal in September 2022, the Try Guys released a statement via Twitter, stating that Ned "is no longer working" with them. "As a result of a thorough internal review, we do not see a path forward together," the statement continued. "We thank you for your support as we navigate this change."The group formed in 2014 when the four founders worked for BuzzFeed. They eventually left the media giant and started their own production company, 2nd Try LLC.In the three years that followed the scandal, Fulmer completely stepped back from social media in what was an enormous shift from his online presence — which included sharing details about his life with his wife and their two young children — since the Try Guys began as a Buzzfeed series in 2014.In September 2025, Fulmer returned to the spotlight, speaking with PEOPLE in his first interview since the scandal. Fulmer told PEOPLE at the time, “I feel ready to share my story and to move on into a new chapter.”
“For a long time, I wanted nothing to do with social media or the internet,” he said of the aftermath of the cheating revelations. “I didn't think it was particularly beneficial to my mental health.”With the cameras off, Fulmer started to rebuild: by coming clean to his wife about his infidelity, by “trying to understand why I had done what I had done,” and by starting the long journey to healing. But more than anything, he says, it was his wife he “cared the most about.”
“That was most devastating to work through and to realize — how much pain I had caused her,” he said. “If I were looking at a past version of myself, how I’d really want to change [is] the way I’d been interacting with her.”Three years after Fulmer admitted to the extramarital affair, he and his wife separated, a spokesperson for Fulmer told PEOPLE in September 2025.
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