April 20, 2010
Categories: Fox News
Megyn Kelly talks dirty
Fox News’ Megyn Kelly holds a special place in the hearts of Washingtonians. She cut her chops here, working at WJLA and Fox News. She loves Bill Sammon (and John Mayer loves her). She likes food. She’s taken on Britney. She can yell. And she’s a Taylor Hicks fan.
She’s also willing to talk to Howard Stern, which she did today. And, as might be expected, the talk got dirty.
Topics followed expected lines when dealing with Stern: her legs, pre-marital sex, when she lost her virginity, her sex life with her husband, sex in the TV news business, and, of course, porn.
The show summary after the jump...
>UPDATE: Kelly addressed feedback to her Stern appearance at the end of her afternoon show Tuesday and read some viewer emails. “Megyn, I thought you had more integrity and class.” “I heard your interview on Howard Stern. Your cred went way up with me. You get him and you’re comfortable with yourself to talk about your life without being inappropriate.”
Before Kelly walks in:
Howard: “The reason she’s here is because she’s the hottest TV person I’ve seen in a long time.”
Robin Quivers: “And she’s promoting that!”
Howard: “I just want to see a hot chick.” Adding: “She is the hottest newscaster. ... I feel a little nervous Robin.”
Kelly walks in:
“Baby, look at you...”
Highlights:
H: “Are you attracted to my wife at all? ... Have you been with another woman?”
M: “I can honestly say I haven’t. ... Maybe [Howard’s wife] will be the first. ... I’m into guys.”
M: “I’m not into porn.”
H: Have you always had a boyfriend?
K: “Pretty much. ... Maybe it’s an insecurity thing. ... I do need a little attention. I like to be adored.”
K: “They Fox-ify you over at Fox News. ... Fox is full of beauties. ... They’re all beautiful, honestly.”
H: What happens to you at Fox News when a woman gets ugly?
K: “They take you down to the basement, beat you and kick you out the door. ... No! ... I mean, honestly, it’s TV. It’s a fickle business. ... I do feel pressure to look my best.”
K: “I believe what Kevin Bacon said: Keep the fights clean and the sex dirty and you have happy marriage.”
K: “They say that newscasters often get stalked more than celebrities because you’re looking right in the camera so they feel like you’re talking right to them.” On stalkers: “That’s the dark side of TV news but it’s worth it.”
K: Some people want to discredit women’s succcess in TV news “by saying you slept your way to the top. They either say you’re an idiot or you slept to you top. ... Some people said I slept my way to the top.” [Kelly categorically rejected that...”on a stack of Bibles.”]
K: Bill “Hammer’s a good looking guy.”
Howard also played a game with Kelly called “F**k, Marry and Kill,” in which Kelly was asked who she would sleep with, whom she would marry, and whom she would kill amongst these three Fox talents: Bill O’Reilly, Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity. The results? She’d marry Hannity, sleep with O’Reilly and kill Glenn Beck. Why marry Hannity? “He probably has the most dough and he’s the youngest.” Why sleep with O’Reilly? “Because he wrote a book that had some saucy sex scenes in there.” Why kill Beck? “Because I know Glenn the least.”
Who else is hot at Fox, asked Stern. Julie Banderas, responded Kelly, calling Banderas a “hot mama.” “She’s a beautiful woman. She’s got the Latina thing going on, the saucy vixen.”
K: “I’m conservative on some things and I’m not on others. ... I’m not going to say how I vote. ... I love that people make these assumptions about you because you work at Fox. ... That’s my job, to be contrarian, to push people.”
K: “You don’t get on air at Fox unless Roger [Ailes] interviews you personally. ... I think he’s looking for people who are interesting, who are smart, who’ll be good on television.”
K: “Who knew that one eyebrow was freakishly higher than the other? ... Why is that? That’s all I can look at when I look at myself on TV. ... You want to know what I love most about myself? I’ll tell you the truth: My clavicle. I thin I have a nice clavicle.”
Classy lady; who admits she needs to be “adored.” Well, she’s plenty hated now - I guess that’s second best to being adored.
She’s no lady.