Tucker Carlson’s Megyn Kelly Booking Upsets Fox News Talent—but She Has ‘No Intention’ of Returning to Network
Megyn Kelly might be gone, but she is definitely not forgotten—especially at Fox News, where she left a residue of resentment among some of her former colleagues over her role in the July 2016 downfall of the channel’s late founder and chairman, Roger Ailes.
Tucker Carlson’s surprise booking of the former Fox News star for his Wednesday night 8 p.m. show—mainly to share her thoughts on the Ronan Farrow/Harvey Weinstein/Matt Lauer troubles at NBC News, where she spent an unhappy 18 months before she was fired almost a year ago—has sent several on-air Fox News personalities into an uproar over Kelly’s return to her cable news stomping ground.
Multiple sources inside and outside Fox News told The Daily Beast on Tuesday that Martha MacCallum, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham—whose programs air at 7pm, 9pm and 10pm, respectively, on the right-leaning outlet—were variously spooked and irked by the prospect of Kelly’s return, which Carlson announced at the end of Monday’s installment of Tucker Carlson Tonight.