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Don Lemon Clarifies Leaving CNN Remark He Made On-Air
Don Lemon is heading backmost connected air.
The CNN This Morning co-anchor volition instrumentality to the greeting amusement connected Feb. 22, E! News tin confirm. The quality comes little than a week aft helium was criticized for comments astir person Nikki Haley.
According to CNN Business, the anchor volition acquisition "formal training" travel his arguable remarks regarding the erstwhile United Nations Ambassador, 51, whom helium suggested was not successful her premier erstwhile referring to comments she had made astir aged vocation politicians having to beryllium their intelligence aptitude earlier re-election.
"This full speech astir property makes maine uncomfortable," Lemon began connected the Feb. 16 occurrence of CNN This Morning. "I deliberation it's the incorrect roadworthy to spell down. She says people—politicians oregon something—are not successful their prime. Nikki Haley isn't successful her prime, sorry. When a pistillate is considered successful her premier successful her 20s and 30s and possibly 40s."
Co-hosts Poppy Harlow and Kaitlan Collins instantly pushed backmost connected the longtime anchor, giving Lemon an accidental to clarify his stance. However, he instead doubled down.
"That's not according to me," the 56-year-old continued. "If you Google, 'When is simply a pistillate successful her prime?' It'll accidental 20s, 30s and 40s."
Lemon apologized soon aft his archetypal conception aired. "The notation I made to a woman's 'prime' this greeting was inartful and irrelevant, arsenic colleagues and loved ones person pointed out, and I regret it," helium wrote connected Twitter. "A woman's property doesn't specify her either personally oregon professionally. I person countless women successful my beingness who beryllium that each day."
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Haley aboriginal addressed the contention connected Fox News. "This is thing that I person faced each of my life," the erstwhile politician of South Carolina said connected Feb. 20. "It was Don Lemon yesterday, Whoopi Goldberg the time before, determination volition beryllium idiosyncratic other tomorrow." (The View host claimed Haley was not portion of Washington, D.C.'s adjacent procreation owed to her property connected Feb. 17.)
The notation I made to a woman’s “prime” this greeting was inartful and irrelevant, arsenic colleagues and loved ones person pointed out, and I regret it. A woman’s property doesn't specify her either personally oregon professionally. I person countless women successful my beingness who beryllium that each day.
— Don Lemon (@donlemon) February 16, 2023CNN brag Chris Licht revealed the quality of Lemon's instrumentality successful an interior memo, shared by CNN Business, claiming staffers deserved to beryllium capable to "learn and turn from their mistakes."
"I sat down with Don and had a frank and meaningful conversation," Licht wrote successful the Feb. 20 email. "He has agreed to enactment successful ceremonial training, arsenic good arsenic continuing to perceive and learn. We instrumentality this concern precise seriously."
Lemon has been a portion of CNN since 2006 and hosted Don Lemon Tonight from 2014 to 2022.
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