It’s only the third installment of Megyn Kelly’s daytime talk show, and the former Fox News commentator is already finding herself putting out fires.
On Monday she made some ill advised gay jokes, and on Wednesday she asked guest Jane Fonda basically the one question she didn’t want to answer.
Fonda and longtime friend Robert Redford appeared on Kelly’s show to promote their new Netflix film, Our Souls at Night, but Kelly had another agenda to discuss — Fonda’s plastic surgery.
“You’ve been an example to everyone in how to age beautifully and with strength and unapologetically,” Kelly began. “You admit you’ve had work done, which I think is to your credit, but you look amazing. I read that you said you’re not proud to admit you’ve had work done, why not?”
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Awkward pause.
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“We really want to talk about that now?” replied Fonda, trying her best to keep composed.
Then Fonda gave a sort of canned answer to the question before quickly changing the subject back to her film. And that’s why she’s a pro.
“Well thanks. Good attitude, good posture, take care of myself,” she said. “But let me tell you why I love this movie that we did, Our Souls at Night, rather than plastic surgery.”
Below, find a segment Kelly produced on Fonda during her Fox News days, followed by the TODAY segment:
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
And as a bonus, here’s John Oliver’s exploration into Megyn Kelly’s absurd assertion that she’s here to be a “unifying force”:
whatsaywhat
She wants to chit-chat about Jane Fonda’s plastic surgery? Is this 1986? RUDE.
Meggyn Kelly will NEVER erase her sleazy past at Fox news. She’s complicit in scaring, misinforming and dumbing down the American public and championing the corrupt agenda of the racist GOP – willing to say anything for a buck until Trump undercut her fan base and turned them on her.
Now she’d rebranding herself off as little-miss-morning-sunshine to the dumdums that pollute their brains with morning TV. It’s too much & I can’t. Spare us the fake news, Meg.
BriBri
Pfftt…..Jane Fonda is nothing but squishy matter I flush down my commode.
CaliKyle
Yeah, thats why she’s successful, rich and famous while you, on the other hand, are an irrelevant, issue-plagued troll on queerty.
Bob LaBlah
Megan Kelly is the poster child for how low news has fallen. No network can lay claim to having an anchor that the majority of the country trusts. Without trust they are all (regardless of what network) simply reading from a script and keeping up the image for whatever category of ignoramus the particular network aims to cover.
BriBri
CaliKyle, her success is totally a reflection of the trash like you that supports her.
whatsaywhat
Russian Troll triggered by (and coming for) an old lady. How sad.
BriBri
Jane Fonda should have been hung for treason 49 years ago.
dwes09
It is amazing to me how the brain dead regressives are able to forgive and forget the sins, gaffes and downright evil actions of the hypocrites whose asses they eagerly lick. And yet they excoriate a woman who simply stood up for what she believed ALMOST 50 YEARS AGO AND WHO HISTORY HAS PROVEN RIGHT! We are at peace with Vietnam, it is a thriving tourist destination and all but the most foolish admit the mistake that war was.
But to the weak minded, backward looking like you, she is “Hanoi Jane”! What a f^(&ing laugh you are!
whatsaywhat
Well. She is a nasty woman… and the redneck GOoPer trash of America have a special hatred in their hearts for nasty women, as we all witnessed in 2016.
Giuseppe
She’s won two Oscars, has written many books and is a noted civil rights activist, take a seat whatsaywhat and STFU.
whatsaywhat
I say “nasty woman” as a compliment. The comment was about her opponents – Not her, dummy.
Ummmm Yeah
Well except when I make faces my face actually moves more just peeling my lips back over my teeth.
Ellie533
Oh Megan. Just when you’d redeemed yourself by leaving The Misogyny Mothership where you learned all those code words and phrases to denigrate gay people while all the time still sounding clueless. But seriously, what kind of a bizzaro world do you have to live in to not know that saying things like she said are both unhelpful to her career aspirations and make her sound like a spokesperson for Focus on the Family? I thought maybe she had been faking small minded bigotry at Fox but I guess I was wrong.
mhoffman953
She’s probably on her period again
Chris
At an age when so many of us have retired, Fonda shows that she’s still got it.
Giuseppe
In spades, a TERRIFIC actress!
TomChicago
She has made her brand, now she must sleep in it. How else are we to view her historically? She has lent her voice to the vilest points of view, and we are supposed to believe this “unifying force” gimmick? no. not buying.
whatsaywhat
Wait… are you talking about Megan or Jane? ;p
DCguy
Robert Redford had a VERY obvious facelift. Interesting that she didn’t ask him about HIS plastic surgery.
dwes09
Except his work did not turn out quite so well, so asking about it is not likely. Plus a regressive like Kelly knows that you ask men the substantial questions, and safe the fluff and personal questions for women.
Terrycloth
Megan will get the ax soon..even the view won’t want her as a host ..I think all that peroxide she used to bleach her hair has seeped into her brain