Megyn Kelly, the airhead from Fox News who totally bombed on her summer Sunday shows is getting ready to host The Today Show later this month. Kelly is being paid a mind boggling $17 million per year on NBC. Now, NBC is setting the bar real low for Kelly’s hosting of the Today show. They are just hoping that Kelly “is less bad” than she was on her Sunday shows that bombed in the ratings.
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Kelly’s credibility with this audience is more important than ever. She will occupy a full hour of the lucrative Today franchise, which has only recently regained sustained top billing over Good Morning America in the most coveted demographic of the vicious morning-show wars. Several NBC insiders I spoke to professed excitement about the show; Kelly has described herself as a racehorse eager to get out of the gates. Still, there is lingering concern over whether Kelly, who can’t bother to feign interest in a once-in-a-generation eclipse, is made for the mornings. The atmosphere among some of the rank and file at NBC was summed up by one staffer who told me: “We are just bracing ourselves and hoping it is less bad than the reception of the Sunday show.”
Megyn Kelly has sure come a long way from her Trump bashing days on Fox News and sucking up to Michael Moore, hasn’t she?