"He's represented people like Megyn Kelly in the past, so he may be able to come in and get a better deal for both Carlson and Lemon. I've called Freedman, I have not heard back, but I'm told both men have brought him in because he's famously aggressive," Stelter, a special correspondent at Vanity Fair, tells ET.
"I have been told that both Don Lemon and Tucker Carlson have hired the same entertainment lawyer, Brian Freedman, to negotiate their exits. Though the men were fired from separate networks, they've enlisted the same attorney to work out their exit packages.
"Maybe Don did not want to have that, so he decided to go public instead." "Neither side is disputing that Don Lemon found out he was fired from his agent, CNN is saying, 'Well, if Don had wanted to, he could have come into the office and had a meeting with management,'" Stelter explains. The world learned of Lemon's termination after he took to Twitter to say he was "stunned" by the news when he learned it from his agent, adding, "After 17 years at CNN I would have thought that someone in management would have had the decency to tell me directly."ĬNN refuted that shortly thereafter, tweeting that Lemon "was offered an opportunity to meet with management but instead released a statement on Twitter." Now clearly this is more than a demotion, it was a termination." They gave him a shot in the mornings, but it always looked like a demotion. He was moved from primetime to the morning show. Redacted Tonight 2014 Comedy, Talk & Interview TVMA Watchlist DC-born comedian Lee Camp and a talented cast make up RT America's first comedy show, 'Redacted Tonight With Lee Camp.' The weekly. "It was pretty clear that the new management at CNN, which admittedly did remove my show, Reliable Sources, last year, was not going to be a fan of Don Lemon. In fact, what surprised me was that he was able to stay there for so long," he says. "I was not very surprised to see Don Lemon removed at CNN. Stelter tells ET that he believes Lemon's firing shows that "the new management of CNN does not want Don Lemon representing the brand." Lemon apologized for the former incident and called the latter "patently false." Lemon's ousting came after he said on-air that Nikki Haley "isn't in her prime" and was the subject of a Variety exposé that claimed he'd exhibited "troubling treatment of women and unprofessional antics" for nearly two decades.
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