After leaving Fox News Network, things have continuously gone south for former host Megyn Kelly.
She was hired by NBC for a whopping $17 million to host her own Sunday show, which bombed and was unceremoniously cancelled.
In an attempt to rectify her reputation, NBC tossed Kelly onto the “Today Show” — the network’s bread and butter of good ratings. What could go wrong?
Everything, it would seem.
“Megyn Kelly Today” premiered Monday morning — and critics skewered her performance.
Kelly swore off talking about politics, forgetting that it’s what led to her rise to fame in the first place — but it turns out she isn’t good at the warm and fuzzy interviews the Today show prides themselves on.
The Washington Post said, “the experiment is far from successful,” in one review, and called the show a hacked-up “Bride of Frankenstein,” in which Kelly appeared to interview “nervously” and “awkwardly.”
CNNMoney also criticized the show, writing, “It’s at best questionable to introduce a show that so consciously seeks to create space between itself and serious news at a moment when there’s such an abundance of it.”
Critics weren’t the only ones that disliked the debut.
It was received so poorly, the programming had network insiders “confused” and openly wondering why NBC bothered to hire Kelly at all.
“They spent all that money on this great political anchor and journalist. If you take those things away, what are you paying for?” a network insider asked The New York Post.
The show airs in the 9 a.m. slot, replacing Al Roker and Tamron Halls’ “Today’s Take.”
Kelly rose to fame with a reputation as a hard-hitting anchor on Fox News.
But during the 2016 presidential debates when she had tense exchanges with now President Donald Trump, she has struggled to maintain her fan base.
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