Geraldo Rivera quits Fox News after revealing he was fired from co-host role at channel’s ‘The Five’ show

Veteran tv host Geraldo Rivera introduced he was quitting Fox News after he was “fired” from the programme “The 5”.

“I’m not going to be on ‘The 5,’” Rivera mentioned in a video posted to Twitter. “I’ve been fired from ‘The 5.’”

“And, because of that, I give up Fox,” he introduced within the video filmed from a ship off Lengthy Island’s Jones Seaside.

Rivera mentioned he will “have extra to say” about leaving the community throughout the “Fox and Associates” programme on Friday morning.

Rivera joined the community in 2001 and have become a bunch of “The 5” a 12 months later. The show grew to become Fox’s most watched programme, averaging greater than three million viewers final 12 months regardless of airing within the late afternoon and never prime time.

His departure comes greater than every week after the host mentioned that his time at “The 5” was coming to an finish as “being the odd man out isn’t all the time straightforward”.

However he would nonetheless be a “correspondent at giant”, as his contract expires in January 2025.

Rivera advised Related Press that “a rising pressure that goes past editorial variations” weren’t “price his time” at Fox.

“It has been a rocky trip but it surely has additionally been an exhilarating journey that spanned fairly just a few years,” he advised the company. “I hope it’s not my final journey.”

He added that Fox administration “didn’t race after me to say, ‘Geraldo, please come again’” following his resolution to give up.

On the show, which has 4 conservatives and one rotating liberal, Rivera alternated with the liberal voice with Jessica Tarlov and Harold Ford Jr, a former congressman from Tennessee.

As soon as a supporter of former president Donald Trump, Rivera break up up with him following the previous president’s false claims over the 2020 presidential election.

He maintained that “on no account do I feel Donald Trump needs to be president of the USA once more and that’s an vital message I’m dedicated to bringing to the American individuals between now and November 2024.”

He mentioned despite the fact that the show’s giant viewership would make it seem like a outstanding place for him to ship that message, however “you may think about the friction that role by definition” would provoke.

“I’m 80 years outdated,” he mentioned. “I don’t need the friction. ‘The 5’ is just too intimate a spot and it will get too private.”

Posting his shirtless selfie final week, Rivera, who would have a good time his eightieth birthday on 4 July, mentioned “80 12 months outdated considering retirement”.

It comes amid more and more bitter and frequent clashes between “The 5” co-hosts. Final month community star Greg Gutfeld mocked Rivera for criticising Tucker Carlson following his ouster from the community. Rivera had referred to as Carlson’s conspiracy theories in regards to the January 6 riots on the US Capitol “bulls**t”.

Rivera responded by saying that he has been “cancelled” from upcoming exhibits broadcasts and mentioned he was “certain there’s purpose” for protecting him away.

In an announcement, Fox News mentioned: “We reached an amicable conclusion with Geraldo over the previous few weeks and sit up for celebrating him on Fox & Associates Friday morning which might be his final look on the community.”