It’s been a rough week for Megyn Kelly.
The former FOX News host kicked off her new NBC morning show, which aired Monday, by saying that she’s always “dreamed of hosting an uplifting show.” Unfortunately for her, nobody seems to find the show all that “uplifting” or buying into its forced feel-goodery.
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Kelly managed to majorly mess up not once, but twice in the first few days at her new job. On Tuesday, she stupidly asked an audience member if Will & Grace “turned him gay,” leading Debra Messing to tweet she “regretted” appearing on the show. Then yesterday, she royally pissed off Jane Fonda by asking the Hollywood legend about all the plastic surgery she’s had.
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WATCH: Megyn Kelly on @Janefonda at Fox News vs Megyn Kelly on Jane Fonda at NBC pic.twitter.com/GW5KjYgsot
— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) September 27, 2017
Speaking to Access Hollywood Canada afterwards, Fonda, who is currently promoting her new film Our Souls at Night co-starring Robert Redford, admitted that she was “a little bit” shocked by Kelly’s question.
“Given the fact that we don’t have a lot of time and Bob is right here, it’s a weird thing to bring up–whether I’ve had plastic surgery or not,” Fonda said. “I have and I’ve talked about it. Seemed like the wrong time and place to ask that question.”
When he was asked about the awkward moment, Redford stood up for his co-star.
“I think Jane didn’t want to go there,” he said. “I think she didn’t want to have the show turn into about her, her surgery, or her look.”
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In other Megyn Kelly news, her show’s ratings are tanking. The debut pulled in a respectable 2.9 million viewers, which is really not bad. But by the end of the week, it had lost nearly 1 million of those viewers, and attracted a whole lot of bad press along the way.
Then there are the tweets, which have been brutal.
Check out what people are saying about Kelly’s first week as a morning show host…
Megyn Kelly’s morning show is such a trainwreck that it has accidentally made itself essential TV viewing
— Ira Madison III (@ira) September 27, 2017
Mood: Debra Messing and Jane Fonda wondering how they ended up on Megyn Kelly pic.twitter.com/fm1rdJy7IN
— Hayley MacMillen (@hlmacmillen) September 27, 2017
Megyn Kelly day 2 ratings down 14% since day 1. Way down from what the show she replaced did. NBC's biggest disaster since Conan.
— MARK SIMONE (@MarkSimoneNY) September 27, 2017
somewhere ann curry is watching the megyn kelly experiment and thinking, "what a train wreck"
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) September 27, 2017
Megyn Kelly asks Jane Fonda about her plastic surgery, learns you do not fuck with Jane Fonda. pic.twitter.com/uLSPcMwkuU
— Molly Knight (@molly_knight) September 27, 2017
Dear @megynkelly I really wanted to give your new show a chance. But after the way you pronounced Raleigh this morning… I'm out.
— Clay Aiken (@clayaiken) September 26, 2017
The only way Americans could ignore Puerto Rico any more would be if it was on the Megyn Kelly Show.
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) September 25, 2017
"I'M FUN AND YOU CAN'T PROVE OTHERWISE." -Megyn Kelly's daily talk show signoff
— Louis Virtel (@louisvirtel) September 27, 2017
Well Duh!
Everybody has always known Megyn Kelly is an awkward & offensive loser.
Karma is a Bitch, if you are.#ThursdayThoughts pic.twitter.com/Q8ASco5roa— CC (@ChristiChat) September 28, 2017
LOL, Megyn Kelly says her new show will be a Trump Free Zone ? Just like my house is a Megyn Kelly Free zone! @megynkelly
— pamela (@pamela12632553) September 25, 2017
batesmotel
The irony is that the gossip media is obsessed with people’s looks and what work they’ve had done. So let’s not be hypocrites here.
smartguyd
Yes but in real interviews we generally expect the host not to bring up gossip or tabloid nonsense. If Oprah went on the View and they pulled out The National Enquirer and asked if she really is in a secret lesbian marriage with Hillary Clinton we would all be like wtf
BriBri
Jane Fonda should have been hung for treason 49 years ago!
prarie pup
Give it a rest, time warp. All that Hanoi Jane stuff is 50 years old; half the population doesn’t remember and the other half don’t care.
heath0043
Enough with the 50 year past. It doesn’t matter. There are current people that are doing far worse and being praised for it.
davidjohng
49 years ago would be 1968. Jane went to Viet Nam in 1972 for that infamous photo…45 years ago. So you would have hung her for merely protesting the Viet Nam war up till then? I lived through that era and over half the country was either passively against the war or actively protesting it.
stevetalbert
Jane Fonda should have been given a Presidential Medal of Freedom for what she did during the wrong, misguided, and tragically unamerican vietnam fiasco.
Esscourt
Everyone was against the Vietnam War at that time. Move on with your life, Father/Mother Time.
whatsaywhat
LOL BriBri is a Russian troll triggered by an old lady.
He BGB
I commented on this on a non gay site and got the same thing when I said she’s almost 80 years old and Meghan was disrespectful. Hanoi jane crap. She had apologized hundreds of times it was over 50 years ago, her mother committed suicide for Christ’s sake and her father was a cold tater. Screwed up in the head but has blossomed and grown out of that confused militant girl. Besides we should never have been in that Asian jungle. What did the Viet Cong ever do to us before we went over there? American politicians and their empirical desire to make all countries like ours whether it’s realistic or not
Bradsman
I want to hear what she’s had done!
asby
NBC gave her a truck load of money without realizing no one really cared about Megyn…. So now they are stuck with her and trying to do anything they can with her..
Heywood Jablowme
Maybe after this show tanks, NBC can shoe-horn her into the CAST of “Will & Grace”! Two birds, one stone. She could play herself as one of Karen’s friends.
Terrycloth
How much you wanna bet megan gets cancelled mid season…
ProfessorMoriarty
Mid-season? I don’t think it will take that long.
He BGB
Billie Holiday once said, after her stint in jail for drugs and couldn’t get her cabaret license, that people just went to her shows now just to see if she was high. I think this is probably true with Meghan’s show only people want to see what rude awkward question she will embarrass herself or her guest with next. And does she do her own hair? It just hangs there, no style. Years from now, looking back, she will regret that! Haha.