Megyn Kelly Won't Leave NBC without a Fight
by EG
Megyn Kelly's morning show on NBC is history, and it's likely the network wants to get out of the huge contract it signed to lure her away from Fox News. Kelly, though, is lining up lawyers and witnesses to help her in meetings with the network brass as she tries to negotiate her exit. Read on for details.
Via Page Six.
“Today” show host Megyn Kelly had it all — a prime-time slot on NBC’s flagship morning show and a deal that’s paying her $69 million over three years.
Then, halfway through that contract, and despite up-and-down ratings, she told the world what she really thinks, live on the air.
“Back when I was a kid, that was OK,” she griped on “Megyn Kelly Today” Tuesday as she recalled the long-lost days when, in her mind, white kids were free to wear blackface for Halloween.
“Just as long as you were dressing as a character,” Kelly “explained.”
The backlash, online and even among her colleagues — notably “Today” mainstay Al Roker — was immediate.
Despite her private and public apologies, it took just 48 hours for NBC to kick Kelly to the curb of 30 Rock on Thursday, yanking her show from the airwaves, as first reported by Page Six.
But Kelly isn’t leaving quietly.
The former Fox News darling wants her friend and ex-NBC colleague Ronan Farrow — the journalist whose exposé of Harvey Weinstein helped bring down the pervy producer and propelled the #MeToo movement — to be present during exit talks slated for as early as Friday.
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