{"id":265264,"date":"2019-01-11T20:09:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-12T03:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1004511"},"modified":"2019-01-11T20:09:52","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T03:09:52","slug":"megyn-kelly-and-nbc-reach-exit-agreement-3-months-after-blackface-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/megyn-kelly-and-nbc-reach-exit-agreement-3-months-after-blackface-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Megyn Kelly and NBC Reach Exit Agreement 3 Months After Blackface Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Megyn Kelly<\/a><\/strong> and NBC have reached an exit agreement, nearly three months after the television host made controversial comments about blackface on television.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Hollywood Reporter<\/em> reports that per the agreement, Megyn will be paid the remaining $69 million dollars, as formerly promised in\u00a0her three-year contract, and she will no longer be held to a non-compete clause. This means the news anchor is able to begin working immediately.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for NBC told multiple outlets, “The parties have resolved their differences, and Megyn Kelly is no longer an employee of NBC.”<\/p>\n

Kelly is now able to close the chapter on this part of her life, which began in October, when the TV host seemingly\u00a0defended the practice of blackface<\/a>. During the third hour of the\u00a0Today<\/em>\u00a0show, Megyn told her fellow commentators, “What is racist? You get in trouble if you are a white person who puts on black face on Halloween, or a black person that puts on white face for Halloween.\u00a0That was okay when I was a kid as long as you were dressing like a character.”\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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She added further insult to injury when she commented, “I can’t keep up with the number of people we’re offending just by being normal people these days.”<\/p>\n

The mother-of-three was swiftly rebuked by her guests, fellow\u00a0Today\u00a0<\/em>hosts and people across the country. “The fact is, while she apologized to the staff, she owes a bigger apology to folks of color round the country,”\u00a0Al Roker<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0declared in a\u00a0heated and emotional discussion<\/a>\u00a0shortly after the saga began.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Kelly herself quickly apologized<\/a> in an e-mail that was sent internally to her\u00a0Today\u00a0<\/em>show colleagues, before she eventually issued a public statement on the show<\/a>. “Good morning everyone and welcome to the show. I’m Megyn Kelly and I want to begin with two words\u2014I’m sorry,” she said. “You may have heard that yesterday, we had a discussion here about political correctness and Halloween costumes and that conversation turned to whether it is ever OK for a person of one race to dress up as another\u2014 a black person making their face whiter or a white person making theirs darker, to make their costume complete. I defended the idea, saying as long as it was respectful and part of a Halloween costume, it seemed OK. Well, I was wrong and I am sorry.”<\/p>\n

However, Megyn’s apology was not enough to save her show from cancellation. Three days after the discussion about blackface, NBC announced they were\u00a0cancelling<\/a>\u00a0the former Fox News anchor’s show. “Megyn Kelly Today<\/em>\u00a0is not returning,” an NBC News spokesperson confirmed in a statement to E! News. “Next week, the 9 a.m. hour will be hosted by other\u00a0Today<\/em>\u00a0co-anchors.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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For the past few months, the nine o’clock hour has been hosted by various\u00a0Today\u00a0<\/em>anchors, but fans of the show got a preview of what to expect in the future when\u00a0Dylan Dreyer<\/strong>\u00a0shared an Twitter post hinting she and fellow hosts Al Roker,\u00a0Sheinelle Jones\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Craig Melvin<\/strong> will take over the slot. “Hope you don’t mind these faces! You’ll be seeing a lot of them at 9am,” she shared with her\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0followers. “Please join us! #3rdhourtoday #youvegotafriendinus #letthegoodtimesroll @TODAYshow @SheinelleJones @craigmelvin @alroker.”<\/p>\n

E! News has reached out to E! News for comment.<\/p>\n

(E! and NBC are both members of the NBCUniversal family.)<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Megyn Kelly and NBC have reached an exit agreement, nearly three months after the television host made controversial comments about blackface on television.\u00a0 The Hollywood Reporter reports that per the agreement, Megyn will be paid the remaining $69 million dollars, as formerly promised in\u00a0her three-year contract, and she will no longer be held to a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-265264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 13:01:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}