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Fox has officially revealed who volition implicit for Tucker Carlson arsenic big of Fox News Tonight aft the anchor's departure from the web successful April 2023.
Tucker Carlson Exits Fox News After Dominion Settlement
Fox News has a new primetime lineup.
The web has officially revealed who volition replace Tucker Carlson as anchor for Fox News Tonight after his departure from Fox successful April 2023. Jesse Watters—who presently hosts the 7 p.m. sentiment amusement Jesse Watters Primetime and appears regularly connected The Five—will instrumentality over as anchor. In the months since Tucker's exit, Fox News Tonight has been hosted by a rotating radical of Fox News personalities.
Jesse, who began his vocation astatine the web arsenic a accumulation assistant, has risen done the ranks and is present 1 of the astir fashionable blimpish voices astatine Fox News.
And with the shifting of the 44-year-old to the 8 p.m. clip slot, Laura Ingraham's amusement will move to 7 p.m., Sean Hannity's conception volition stay astatine 9 p.m. and Greg Gutfield's drama programme will air astatine 10 p.m.
"FOX News Channel has been America's destination for quality and investigation for much than 21 years and we are thrilled to debut a caller lineup," said CEO Suzanne Scott successful a news release. "The unsocial perspectives of Laura Ingraham, Jesse Watters, Sean Hannity, and Greg Gutfeld volition guarantee our viewers person entree to unrivaled sum from our best-in-class squad for years to come."
Tucker's departure from Fox came abruptly, with the institution releasing the pursuing connection connected April 24, "FOX News Media and Tucker Carlson person agreed to portion ways. We convey him for his work to the web arsenic a big and anterior to that arsenic a contributor."
The 53-year-old—who began hosting Fox News Tonight successful 2016—has not commented publically connected his divided with the network, nevertheless helium has since begun to big his ain show on Twitter.
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The announcement of Carlson's exit came astir a week after Fox reached a monolithic $787.5 cardinal colony with Dominion Voting Systems successful a past infinitesimal effort to debar a proceedings successful its defamation case.
Dominion had filed the suit against Fox successful March 2021 alleging that the web had knowingly dispersed mendacious accusation connected aerial astir its voting machines amid the 2020 statesmanlike election.
Tucker had travel nether scrutiny amid the lawsuit aft substance messages showing him calling retired erstwhile President Donald Trump were released to the public.
"We are very, precise adjacent to being capable to disregard Trump astir nights. I genuinely can't wait," he wrote successful 1 substance obtained by NBC News in March. "I hatred him passionately...I can't grip overmuch much of this."
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