Report Confirms that Megyn Kelly’s Co-Workers Despise Her

The evidence is piling up that Megyn Kelly’s career peaked at Fox News.

While Kelly may have thought she’d bolster her image by moving from a conservative-leaning network to a more “traditional” (translation: liberal) network, she failed to bring her audience with her.

Her debut episode on NBC drew in 6.1 million viewers – and it peaked there. That’s because the first-half of the episode featured an exclusive interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Her ratings then plummeted after the Putin interview.

It was just three weeks ago that she was getting beaten by reruns of America’s Funniest Home Videos.

And what has NBC done since then? Doubled down – and doubled up on their budget for Megyn.

NBC News is sparing no expense on its new star, Megyn Kelly, and the lavish spending is ticking off some of her new colleagues at the Peacock Network.

Kelly is on a five-day nationwide tour to visit affiliates in major markets, and she is traveling on a charter jet with a support staff of five or six people, including a hairstylist, a makeup artist, a publicist and a security detail.

“People are outraged over her divalike ways,” one network source told me. “They wonder, ‘When does NBC stop throwing money at her?’ ”

Her salary is said to be $18 million a year.

NBC hired new staff, built a new set and will be spending extra on a live audience for the show, which Kelly’s been touting in Dallas, Houston and Denver.

“She’s working sunup to sundown every day — some days, two cities a day,” an NBC insider said, and shooting multiple promos and pieces for the new show.

“It’s a standard affiliates tour, which many new NBC News anchors have done before her. There’s huge excitement for ‘Megyn Kelly Today’ in these markets, and it’s a great thing that the show is covering people and places outside of New York City.”

H/T PageSix

Nobody at Fox certainly likes her – nor do her new colleagues.

This investment in Kelly makes no sense, business-wise. Why throw money at a proven failure? Kelly’s show was ended early due to terrible ratings. That’s not a good sign.

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Why is NBC so desperate to burn money? I can’t figure it out for the life of me, but the worse the liberal media does, the better.

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