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PEOPLE & ARTS Monday 14 January 2019

NBC News, Megyn Kelly reach separation agreement

By DAVID BAUDER vision news but now is less diences on the network.
NEW YORK (AP) — NBC so with financial constric- Time magazine, which hon-
News announced its pro- tions and less viewership. In ored "The Silence Breakers"
fessional divorce agree- a sense, Kelly was caught in as its Person of the Year
ment with Megyn Kelly late a no-woman's land: some in 2017, cited Kelly as the
Friday, ending an asso- at NBC were suspicious group's leader in the enter-
ciation with the former Fox of her because of the Fox tainment field.
News Channel star whose News background, while But tough segments on ac-
attempt to become a net- her former audience at cusations against former
work morning television star Fox resented her for tough NBC anchor Matt Lauer
as part of the "Today" show questioning of Donald didn't win her friends inter-
floundered. Trump on the presidential nally, as did her public call
Terms were not disclosed. campaign trail. for Lack to appoint out-
Kelly was in the second of While at Fox, her accusa- side investigators to look
a three-year contract that tions of unwanted sexual into why the network didn't
reportedly paid her more advances by the network's air Ronan Farrow's stories
than $20 million a year. late chief executive, Roger about Harvey Weinstein
She's been off the air since Ailes, helped lead to his fir- and allowed Farrow to take
October after creating a ing. his story to The New Yorker.
furor by suggesting that it She made news at NBC When those stories began
was OK for white people In this April 12, 2018 file photo, television journalist Megyn Kelly when interviewing women to fade, Kelly had trouble
attends The Hollywood Reporter's annual 35 Most Powerful Peo-
to wear blackface on Hal- ple in Media event at The Pool in New York. who accused Trump of in- attracting an audience
loween, and exit negotia- Associated Press appropriate behavior and s in the soft-focus world of
tions had dragged for two poke with accusers of Har- morning television. She also
months over the holidays. an employee of NBC," the Jones. vey Weinstein, Bill O'Reilly, briefly hosted an evening
Even before the controver- network said in a statement Her tenure was also a fail- Roy Moore and others, as newsmagazine that didn't
sial commentary, her future Friday night. ure for NBC News Chair- well as women who say catch on with viewers.
was considered limited at NBC says she'll be replaced man Andrew Lack, who they were harassed on Kelly made a tearful apolo-
NBC News. in the third hour of the lured her from Fox News Capitol Hill. The episode gy to viewers following her
"The parties have resolved "Today" show by anchors Channel with the type of with Trump accusers had blackface comments, but
their differences, and Craig Melvin, Al Roker, big-money contract that more than 2.9 million view- it proved to be her last ap-
Megyn Kelly is no longer Dylan Dreyer and Sheinelle was once standard in tele- ers, one of her biggest au- pearance on NBC News.q