Megyn Kelly's morning show will not return to NBC airwaves

NBC's Megyn Kelly's NBC News Friday, quoting a spokesperson.

"'Megyn Kelly Today' is not returning," the spokesperson was quoted as saying. "Next week, the 9 AM will be hosted by other TODAY co-anchors."

Kelly began hosting her daytime talk show, "Megyn Kelly Today," on NBC after leaving Fox News in 2017.

The announcement comes just days after it's been written down for Halloween is inappropriate.

She brought up blackface during a segment Tuesday morning while holding a round-table discussion with an all-white panel about offensive Halloween costumes.

"But what is racist?" she wondered aloud. If you're in trouble or if you're a white person who has a face to face in Halloween, then I'm a kid, that was OK as long as you've been dressing up as like a character. "

Kelly also defended a TV star reality who darkened her skin to dress up as Diana Ross.

"Some people said that was racist," she said. "I do not like Diana Ross?" "She wants to look like Diana Ross for one day, and I do not know how that got racist on Halloween."

Kelly's remarks quickly drew backlash on social media.

"I can not believe the ignorance on this in 2018," Padma Lakshmi wrote on Twitter. "You are on national television.You are a responsible to educate yourself on social issues @megynkelly.This is so damaging."

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Kelly apologized to NBC in an email Tuesday.

"To me, I thought, why would it be controversial for someone to dress up as Diana Ross to make herself look like this amazing woman as a way of honoring and respecting her?" Kelly wrote in part in the email, which was obtained by ABC News. "I realize now that this behavior is indeed wrong, and I am sorry, the history of blackface in our culture is abhorrent, the wounds too deep."

Still, Kelly's fellow NBC hosts comments on a segment on "Today" Wednesday morning.

"The fact is, while she is apologized to the staff, she has a bigger apology to folks of color around the country," co-host and weather anchor Al Roker said.

"This is a history going back to the 1830s," Roker continued. "Minstrel shows to demean and denigrate a race was not right I'm old enough to have lived through 'Amos' n 'Andy,' where you had white in blackface playing two black characters, just magnifying the worst stereotypes about black people – and that's what the problem is and that's what the issue is. "

"There was some criticism," co-host Craig Melvin added. "That's silly and it's disingenuous and it's just as ignorant and racist as the statement itself."

"In addition to being a colleague, she's a friend," he said. "She said something stupid, She said something indefensible."

Afterward, Kelly went on air and issued another apology.

"I'm sorry," Kelly, visibly emotional, said Wednesday morning. "You may have heard that we had a discussion here about political correctness and Halloween costumes."

She continued, "And that conversation turned to whether it is a person who is a person or a person who has a face to face. idea, saying that it was respectful and part of a Halloween costume, it seemed OK, well, I was wrong and I am sorry I have never been a 'PC' kind of person, but I do understand the value in being this past year has been so painful for many people of color.