Another day, another report of behind-the-scenes drama involving freshly-bubbly-NBC-morning host Megyn Kelly.
In case you haven’t heard, Kelly launched a new NBC morning show earlier this month that has, so far, been tanking with both viewers and critics alike.
Ratings have also been pretty horrible. Kelly lost nearly half a million viewers between her first and fourth episode.
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Now, RadarOnline reports that Kelly has become so disliked at the network that many of her coworkers at NBC, including Matt Lauer and Savannah Guthrie, are going out of their way to ignore her.
A source claims Lauer and Gutherie “are now doing damage control and protecting themselves.”
“Don’t expect to see Matt and Megyn at lunch anytime soon,” an insider tells Radar. “She has become so toxic everyone wants to stay away from the bad smell.”
Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb also aren’t pleased with her. Their show, which airs immediately after Kelly’s, has seen an 8% decrease in viewership since Kelly came around.
“The ladies are furious,” the insider says.
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Gifford is rumored to be the most upset, described as “livid” over the impact Kelly’s poor ratings are having on her prized position at the network.
Meanwhile, Kelly’s reviews continue to be rather dismal. Just today, Batya Ungar-Sargon from The New York Times wrote:
NBC has attempted to transform Megyn Kelly into one of the nice girls of mainstream media, another Kelly Ripa, Savannah Guthrie or Katie Couric. The results have been predictably awkward. … Her descent into banal harmlessness operates as a cautionary tale to all women: You will have to be likable if you want to go mainstream. And that lesson takes Megyn Kelly’s downfall from farce to tragedy.
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jkthsnk
You know it’s bad Today’s top aholes keep their distamce.
Mandrake
Megan Kelly is bearing the brunt and vitriol of political divisiveness. She didn’t stand a chance moving from FOX to a liberal network. It wouldn’t have mattered how she performed.
Stache
Yeah, is it really that hard not to say things like “how is the gay thing working for you”? NBC is not a liberal network. Pretty mainstream.
mhoffman953
@Stache
NBC is very much so a liberal network. Evidence of this is seen in the Wikileaks emails which showed several TV personalities from NBC, including ABC, CNN, and MSNBC were working in tandem with the DNC to push liberal talking points and liberal agendas.
Nearly every broadcaster on NBC is liberal and adds liberal spin. If you want to dispute that then you can see how many conservative TV personalities exist on NBC and I guarantee you can count them on one hand
Juanjo
Oh look, Miss Hoffman knows NBC is liberal because of something she read on Wikileaks. Next she will tell us that World News Daily Report is a worthwhile news source.
mhoffman953
@Juanjo
You must not know what Wikileaks is then, Grandpa John
DCguy
It’s always funny when right wing trolls describe networks that report news as “Liberal”.
So in your world I guess Sean Hannity is a left of center moderate?
mhoffman953
@DCGuy
Poor reading skills on your part. I assumed you were smarter than that, guess I was wrong
Sean Hannity is far right, but strong deflection again
Heywood Jablowme
Is Santa Claus still white? I’m just trying to keep track.
Bob LaBlah
Isn’t it terrible that things have really come to a question like that? lol lol I mean there is no credibility from any one or any thing. A damn president who takes to twitter (never mind twitter is more or less for the lonely and the ignorant who have some how drawn an audience) and stops dead short of starting world war three and now a damn bimbo whom no matter how hard she and her network tries will never be taken serious. But still she makes millions doing it. I bet if she stopped and cleaned her toe nails on air they would still renew her contract.
Kangol
She’s getting many millions of dollars for failing upwards, so cue up the thumb-sized violin.
Bob LaBlah
Wow! So much for dropping the Ms. Bad Bitch haircut she used to sport, huh? Megan, keep this up and not even the flatulence plagued Al Roker will want to do a walk-in on your show. Your hiring shows more of NBC’s desperation for ratings than your skills as a serious reporter. Lord, who next? Chelsea Manning perhaps. At this point I can’t see how even she could be any more repulsive.
Josh447
I must say, that’s what NBC gets for hiring someone from the Flatulence Party.
o.codone
Kelly sucks. NBC trying to turn this hard boiled bit*ch into Katie Couric is absurd. Whose idea was that? Just pay her off and get this crap off the air.
DCguy
This is Andy Lack’s fault. MSNBC’s ratings were going up, especially on their liberal shows, and instead of riding that, he brings in Gretta Van Sustern, tried to get rid of Lawrence O’Donnell and then brings Kelly over to NBC.
Gretta is gone, Kelly is failing. The stink of FOX doesn’t wash off easily.