After catching some severe warmth earlier this week for claiming 51-year-old politician Nikki Haley wasn’t in “her prime”, CNN host Don Lemon has reportedly been axed from the community’s morning present line-up for this Monday, February 20.
The 56-year-old anchor was co-hosting CNN This Morning on Thursday when he reacted to Haley’s feedback on the age of politicians.
“This complete speak about age makes me uncomfortable,” Lemon mentioned in the course of the reside broadcast. “I feel it’s the flawed highway to go down. She says folks, you recognize, politicians are all of the sudden not of their prime. Nikki Haley isn’t in her prime. Sorry, when a girl is in her prime is in her 20s and 30s and possibly 40s.”
The morning present’s different hosts, Poppy Harlow and Kaitlan Collins, later left the set after Lemon’s age-shaming feedback — an act that was initially performed off as a “well-timed” lavatory break.
Lemon ended up giving a halfhearted apology throughout an editorial telephone convention on Friday morning, confessing that he was “sorry” and that he did not “imply to harm” or to “offend anybody.”
He additionally tried to stroll again his unique feedback explaining, “What I mentioned got here out flawed and I want I hadn’t mentioned it. I imagine girls of any age can do something they set their minds to. The folks I’m closest to on this group are girls.”
Apparently, the connection between the three co-hosts have been “smoldering for months,” based on insiders.
One supply near the matter informed Confider there are severe “ongoing conversations about Don’s future,” hinting on the CNN persona dropping extra than simply his seat on the morning desk. The insider went on to name the primetime anchor a “fixed distraction.”
“He has a colossal ego and he’s the sort of one who goes round saying he’s not going to take the autumn for his present flopping, it’s not his fault and the community’s tanking, they usually shouldn’t have pushed him out of his primetime slot,” they continued.