Posted on 07/21/2016 4:46:08 PM PDT by drewh
The former Fox anchor who was dismissed by the now embattled head of Fox News is reportedly peddling a memoir dishing about her experience at the network. As if Roger Ailes doesn’t have trouble on his plate, former Fox News anchor Laurie Dhue has been shopping a tell-all about her experiences with the founder of the conservative-friendly cable network along with other Fox News personalities.
Dhue’s proposed book-length memoir, which I’m told is already attracting interest from publishers, can’t be good news for the embattled Ailes—who faces the prospect of a pile-up of sexual harassment allegations, in the wake of fired anchor Gretchen Carlson’s sensational harassment lawsuit claiming he sent her packing after she rebuffed him, even after Ailes negotiates his forced exit from the cable channel. Fox News didn’t respond to a request for comment as of this writing.
Ailes is dickering over the terms of his departure after Rupert, Lachlan, and James Murdoch—the top executives of Fox News’s parent company, 21st Century Fox—ordered an internal review of Carlson’s allegations and those of other women at the network, conducted by the blue-chip law firm Paul, Weiss. One of his attorneys, longtime Fox News contributor Susan Estrich, told The Daily Beast that Ailes expects to speak with Rupert Murdoch when the latter arrives in New York next week.
Dhue—who worked for Fox News as a prominent anchor from 2000 until Ailes dismissed her in 2008, when she was escorted out of the building—was originally planning her book as a novel, I’m told, because of her apprehension over dishing on Ailes and others. But she decided to write a non-fiction account—which will also include her experiences as a producer and on-air personality at CNN and MSNBC, as well as her struggle with and recovery from alcoholism—after Carlson’s lawsuit and other women began to speak out about their treatment by Ailes.
“Ms. Dhue does not intend to comment in the media,” her attorney, Bruce Schaeffer, said in a statement to The Daily Beast. “She is in the process of writing a book in which she will candidly discuss her years at Fox News and her interactions and communications with Mr. Ailes and many other Fox News personalities, her involuntary departure from Fox News and her lack of success in continuing her career in the television news industry following her departure from Fox News. “She will also discuss her lengthy battle with alcoholism, her nine years of recovery and her national advocacy work in the recovery community.” Schaeffer’s statement also points out that Dhue and her attorney have “not been contacted or interviewed by Paul, Weiss, the attorneys reported to be conducting the inquiry on behalf of Fox.”
He took Jarrett back but not Dhue. I wonder why.
That’s Mrs George Stephanopoulos with Seinfeld.
twitter sources allegedly say just unwanted kissing so far, thats not a lot to hang a class action case on...
A while back Laurie was on Glenn Beck’s network, maybe still is.
It wasn’t her first mess up & they stayed with her thru her treatment plan, as they did with Jarrett but she continued after successive bouts. <p.How many more “second chances” does one get with an employer especially after being told, this is your last time!
Someone who has recovered from an addiction should be praised not rediculed. God Bless Laurie for her recovery and helping of others.
I am grateful to God for my recovery via the Celebrate Recovery Program at the Community Church from my Hurts, Hangups and Habits.
Pretty, but such a horrible voice
I did not know that.
Spose Stephie has explained to her about shrinkage? “It’s cold in these convention hotels!!”
lol
“she is selling some product on cable.recognized her immediately...Pretty lady”
Wrinkle cream of some sort.
Need bigger photo
The Hottest of the Fox News hotties IMHO.
The best of the original Fox babes. Stunning.
I never had any inkling about her alcoholism.
I really think Megan is a mental case.
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