Megyn Kelly signs deal with SiriusXM to host weekday talk show in first journalism gig since shock NBC exit
MEGYN Kelly has signed a deal with SiriusXM to host a new weekday talk show – her first full time journalism gig since her shock NBC exit.
The Megyn Kelly Show will start on September 7, it was announced on Tuesday. It comes two years after the host left NBC after appearing to defend blackface.
Former Fox News anchor and NBC News host Kelly, 50, will interview guests and offer her opinion in the afternoon slot on the Triumph channel.
She tweeted the news on Tuesday, writing: “Happy to announce our show (already one of the top podcasts in the USA after 9 mos) is expanding its reach – partnering w/SiriusXM (a great team!) in a live, 2-hour show, going 5 days/wk & adding video too. Starts in September.
“Thank you to our listeners!”
Kelly had broadcast her own podcast, saying it removed “the pressure of corporate overlords.”
The journalist left her primetime show at Fox News in 2017, where she was commended for her tough questioning of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump.
She joined NBC News as a news anchor and host, but left after after she appeared to defend blackface during a Halloween episode in 2018.
Kelly asked: “What is racist?”
“Truly, you do get in trouble if you are a white person who puts on blackface on Halloween or a black person who puts on whiteface for Halloween,” she said.
“Back when I was a kid, that was OK, as long as you were dressing up as a character.”
Kelly later tearfully apologized after critics accused her of ignoring the ugly history of minstrel shows and movies in which white people applied blackface.
She left half way through her three year contract, with her $69 million deal in tact.
Kelly said of her job at NBC it was not “intellectually stimulating,.”
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She told Insider: “I had this soaring career at Fox that was great by any measure, but I was miserable at home.
“It was too stressful, too much time away from my family and my kids, and then I overcorrected at NBC by going too soft.
“To be perfectly honest, the job wasn’t intellectually stimulating for me, and now I feel like I have the best of both worlds. I’m fired up and making a difference.”