NBC cancels Megyn Kelly's show after Blackface controversy

Megyn Kelly, a former Fox News Channel personality who made a difficult transition to softer morning news at NBC, was ousted Friday from her post. Today & # 39; hui program after his controversial comments on the radio on blackface.

"Megyn Kelly today Don "t come back, " NBC News said in a statement.

The fourth hour of the venerable NBC Today & # 39; hui The franchise occupied by Kelly's show will be hosted by other co-presenters of the show beginning next week, the network announced.

NBC did not discuss the status of Kelly herself, who was reportedly negotiating a multi-million dollar contract.

Fire Storm Sparkled on Blackface Comments

The cancellation comes four days after Kelly caused a storm of criticism for asking the radio why dressing in blackface for a Halloween costume was wrong.

The condemnation of social media was swift and Kelly apologized to other NBC staff later in the day and apologized tearfully on her show Wednesday.

Kelly did not welcome Megyn Kelly today as expected on Thursday and Friday morning. She is in the middle of the second year of a three-year contract, which would bring her more than 20 million US dollars a year.

Kelly made her debut as NBC morning television host on September 25, 2017, holding the 9 am position. Today & # 39; hui and saying that she wanted viewers "laughing with us, a smile, sometimes a tear and maybe a little hope to get the day off to a good start". She did cooking demonstrations and explored emotional topics.

She largely failed with this soft focus on news and two awkward and hostile interviews with Hollywood personalities, Jane Fonda and Debra Messing, who turned against bad publicity. Kelly briefly found a more useful goal with the eruption of the # MeToo movement.

She gave news by interviewing women who accused Trump of inappropriate behavior and spoke with accusers of Harvey Weinstein, Brett Ratner, Bill O'Reilly, Roy Moore and Mark Halperin, as well with women who claim to have been harbaded at Capitol Hill.

Time magazine, which named "The Silence Breakers" as a year-round personality, named Kelly as its leader in the entertainment industry. The episode with Trump's accusers has had more than 2.9 million viewers, one of his biggest audiences.

But tensions continued behind the scenes. Last month, Kelly publicly called on NBC News President Andrew Lack to appoint external investigators to determine why the network did not broadcast Ronan Farrow's stories about the dishonored leader Harvey Weinstein and allowed him to bring this information to the New Yorker. It's a sore spot at the NBC management.

And his notes have been constantly down from that Today & # 39; hui collected within 9 hours before Kelly's arrival. During its first year, the Kelly show has averaged 2.4 million viewers per day, a decrease of 400,000 viewers from the previous year.