Following controversial comments about blackface, Megyn Kelly looks set to leave NBC's Today programme.
The news comes soon after the House of Cards cast dropped out of an appearance on the show. Kelly's agency CAA have also dropped her as a client.
“She is expecting to leave the Today show at the end of the season in December,” a source told People.
They add that discussions surround Kelly's departure began before the media storm surrounding the comments, saying: “Megyn indicated before this brouhaha that she wanted to move on before the end of the year in order to be involved in the presidential campaign coverage.”
The source also said that those who work on the Today show "are not happy with Megyn right now”, adding that “nobody knows what is going to happen with her now” in regards to her position.
Kelly caused controversy while discussing a university campus’s attempt to discourage offensive costumes with a panel, saying: “What is racist? Because you do get in trouble if you are a white person who puts on blackface at Halloween, or a black person who puts on whiteface for Halloween.”
Following an outcry on social media, Kelly apologised for the comments: “Today is one of those days where listening carefully to other points of view, including from friends and colleagues, is leading me to rethink my own views.”
The former Fox News anchor added that she now realises that she was “indeed wrong” and that “the history of blackface in our culture is abhorrent, the wounds too deep.”
