Fox News Fires Ed Henry After Sexual Misconduct Claim

Fox News anchor Ed Henry (Photo by John Lamparski/Getty Images)
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NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News on Wednesday fired daytime news anchor Ed Henry after he was charged with sexual misconduct in the workplace.

The network said it had received a complaint on June 25 from an attorney about the misconduct. An outside investigator was hired and, based on the results of that probe, Fox fired Henry.

Henry worked as a late morning news anchor on Fox, between the hours of 9 to 11 a.m.

He had slowly rehabilitated his career following a four-month leave of absence that ended in 2017, after there were published reports of an extramarital affair that he conducted with a Las Vegas cocktail waitress.

Fox offered no details of the complaint that resulted in Henry’s firing, only to say that it happened “years ago.”

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  1. Is it just me or is this a Fox media personality thing? I don’t see shit like this on CBS, NBC, CNN, etc. Am I blinkered?

  2. Whoopsie! Got caught. Must be serious if fox fired him.

  3. Well, if someone is a damned creep in front of the camera, you can damned well bet they are a creep away from the camera. One of life’s not so subtle truths, for sure. Look at Donnie…

  4. Fox offered no details of the complaint that resulted in Henry’s firing, only to say that it happened “years ago.”

    No freaking way.

  5. Sexual harassment is pretty much part of the ingrained corporate culture at NewsCorp. You can change out the faces at the top of the org chart, but it won’t change their core values.

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