Megyn Kelly breaks silence on breathtaking claims that she is set for TV comeback on CBS News
Megyn Kelly has denied having a top secret screen-test at CBS News ahead of a rumored network TV comeback.
Veteran media reporter Bernard Goldberg made the astonishing allegation in a podcast for his Substack platform, No BS Zone.
In a statement sent to Daily Mail Tuesday, Kelly slammed the claim as complete fiction.
‘I have no idea how these things get started. Why would I want to go back to the dying animal that is TV news? Who has more influence and relevance – Anderson Cooper or Joe Rogan?
‘I’ve never been happier – I’m running my own media company, anchoring my show, and raising my own kids. Life is good, thank God,’ she said.
Goldberg, during his podcast, had abruptly told co-host John Daly: ‘[H]ere’s something I’m revealing that nobody knows: a certain person whose name – I’ll tell you the name in a second – a certain famous person in the media was at CBS News the other day, doing what I’m told was a screen test.
‘Meaning, seeing how it works on camera.’
Daly guessed former Fox News star Bill O’Reilly.
Megyn Kelly has denied shocking claims she’s secretly plotting a network TV return in a statement to the Daily Mail. The independent journalist is seen here on Megyn Kelly Today, which she hosted during her time at NBC
Kelly responded to the rumors in a post to X, slamming it as completely made-up
But Goldberg – who worked at the Eye Network for some twenty-eight years – replied: ‘No, I would’ve guessed that too. No, Megyn Kelly. Megyn Kelly was at CBS News the other day. You heard it here, you’re not going to hear it anyplace else.’
Mediaite went on to report Goldberg’s claims, earning a scathing response from Kelly within minutes on X.
‘Literally not one word of this is true. Was not at cbs, did not have a screen test, am not going to cbs, and have ZERO desire to leave what I am doing now and join the sinking ship of broadcast news,’ it read.
It is unclear where Goldberg received his information.
Kelly just celebrated five years of her eponymous SiriusXM show on Monday. The program launched as an audio-only podcast in September 2020 and today is a top-rated program on both Apple and Spotify. The show has millions more followers on across Instagram, TikTok, and X.
Kelly was forced out of NBC News in 2019 over on-air comments defending blackface. She joined the Peacock network from Fox News, where she hosted The Kelly File. The show aired between 2004 and 2017.
Since her legacy media exit, Kelly has made waves with The Megyn Kelly Show.
Earlier this month, she announced the show’s first-ever nationwide live tour, ‘Megyn Kelly LIVE’, which kicks off in October. She refused to call it off after the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
Veteran media reporter Bernard Goldberg – a former reporter and producer at CBS – made the allegation on his podcast
Goldberg said he heard Kelly was spotted at CBS’s headquarters in Manhattan for a ‘screen test’
Since going independent, she has also become an outspoken supporter of President Donald Trump.
She regularly offers conservative friendly takes on thorny culture wars topics, untethered by any employers. Like other legacy outlets, CBS News has been met with accusations of bias from both viewers and the administration as of late.
New owner David Ellison seems dead-set on redressing that balance.
He recently changed CBS’s policy for airing interviews with no cuts on the network’s flagship Sunday morning program Face the Nation, following high-profile accusations of ‘deceptive’ editing practices from Trump and Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem.
Ellison is also said to be on the verge of buying former New York Times opinion editor Bari Weiss’s The Free Press and installing herself as a senior executive at CBS.
Weiss resigned from The Times in 2021 after claiming the paper had become a nest of woke vipers who were skewing its coverage on major issues to the left.
Weiss, like Kelly, went on to found her own media company. Both journalists are fierce critics of legacy news.
Earlier this month, CBS parent Paramount hired the head of a conservative think tank to keep tabs on its complaints from consumers and employees – another hint at Ellison’s vision for network.
Last month, in his first presser as boss, new Paramount Chairman David Ellison, 42, promised to shed any prior political connotations that may be tied to CBS News and its parent Paramount
Ellison is said to be on the verge of buying former New York Times opinion editor Bari Weiss The Free Press news website and installing herself as a senior executive at the Eye Network
It’s been a tumultuous year for CBS, with 60 Minutes Executive Producer Bill Owens and CBS News CEO Wendy McMahon both resigning over concerns with the network’s direction.
Furing his first press conference as CEO last month, Ellison, the son of billionaire Trump ally Larry Ellison, aired plans to return Paramount to its glitzy glory days – following a lengthy regulatory review and Trump’s suit surrounding edits to a ’60 Minutes’ interview with Kamala Harris that some said was bias.
To do so, Ellison said he plans to to shed any prior political connotations that may be tied to the company, he said.
Paramount settled with Trump last month for $16million.
Ellison has said he views CBS as one of Paramount’s most ‘underappreciated’ assets.
Kelly’s show, meanwhile, is consistently one of the top three-rated news commentary podcasts in the country. It receives over a hundred million downloads on YouTube every month.
