In his first Post-Fox appearance, Geraldo Rivera told the women of The View that his departure from the network after 23 years, announced June 29, resulted in a “toxic relationship” with a co-host of panel show The Five preceded.
Weeks after his departure from the right-wing channel, Rivera told The View’s female co-hosts that he had a “toxic relationship with one of the cast members” before he was fired from Fox’s top-rated panel show The Five.
The long-running TV appearance didn’t mention by name who the cast member he had fallen out with was, but said it was one of the male co-hosts and that network executives always removed the co-host after their arguments on the show would have “preferred”. Rivera frequently fought with Jesse Watters and Greg Gutfeld during the panel show.
The 80-year-old journalist said he was subsequently suspended three times from the afternoon panel and had begun to cut back on his scheduled executive appearances.
Rivera told the ladies of The View that before he was fired from Fox’s highest-rated panel show The Five, he had a “toxic relationship with one of the cast members.”
Rivera shared the “Liberals” seat with Jessica Tarlov and former Congressman Harold Ford Jr. — giving a voice to opinions relatively unpopular with Fox audiences
Elaborating on the toxic relationship that marked the beginning of his end at Fox, Rivera said he felt it “very unfair that I wasn’t judged objectively in our disputes, but that he was always preferred and I was the one.” .’ I got suspended, you know, three times.’
He said his gig was canceled at the last minute, “you know, right before I was supposed to go ahead, so I was really upset.”
At that point, co-host Joy Behar said, “So we know it’s a guy?” about the co-worker Rivera had a fight with.
“It’s a guy. “It’s not Jeanine, Janine. I love Jeanine, I discovered Janine,” Rivera said, referencing Fox personality judge Jeanine Piro.
Revealing which host things were toxic at, Rivera said, “Maybe I can do it,” but for now, internet pundits need to piece the puzzle together.
The five female co-hosts opened the show with big slurs on Fox News, Rupert Murdoch and the state of the Republican Party.
Conservative host Alyssa Farah Griffin, formerly a frequent Fox News guest and self-proclaimed viewer, agreed with her progressive co-hosts that the station needs a complete reform in order to once again become a respected news provider.
Rivera praised many of his former Fox colleagues, praising both their journalism and the way they treated him after he left, but strongly condemned the network for its coverage of the 2020 election and post-January 6 reporting .
“Fox had a moral crisis after the election,” he said, adding that although he has a year and a half left on his contract, he has no vacancies at the network because his “ideology doesn’t fit Fox.” .’
He said that a few weeks ago he received a call from two female Fox executives who told him he was being fired from The Five but that there was room elsewhere on the network to accommodate him.
In return, he told executives that if they fired him from the network’s top-performing program, he’d quit — and “basically, that’s what happened,” he said.
Finally, Rivera admitted that he should have left Fox in 2011 after the death of Osama Bin Laden, which he announced on TV.
He said the radical Islamic terrorist who planned the 9/11 attacks was the reason he joined Fox, and when the saga ended with his death at the hands of US Navy SEALs, he should have realized that it was his time had expired.
The female co-hosts of the popular daytime talk show interviewed Rivera about his time at Fox, the reason for his departure and his relationship with Donald Trump
“Fox had a moral crisis after the election,” Rivera told the panel, adding that even though he has a year and a half left on his contract, there is no room for him at the network because his “ideology doesn’t fit Fox’
Rivera often had awkward arguments with Fox comedian Greg Gutfeld when the two appeared together on The Five
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Rivera also spoke about the prospect of Donald Trump retaking the Oval Office in the next presidential election.
He wavered in his tone towards Trump, recounted a loving personal history with the former president, recalled a time when the billionaire politician was a social figure in New York, and commended him for not taking him from The Celebrity Apprentice” had thrown.
However, he added that he will devote the rest of his journalism career to ensuring he is never re-elected president.
“He lost the election and he’s become a crazy guy,” Rivera said, noting that Trump had given him significant access to the White House during his tenure.
Prior to his departure, Rivera has drifted away from his once-conservative views in recent years, becoming increasingly hostile to the hosts and anchors of the network that employed him.
He personally, if not politically, supported Donald Trump until the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, when his views swung leftward on a number of issues.
A veteran broadcaster, he began his career as a local journalist in New York in the early 1970s before becoming a war correspondent.
It was his exposure of the appalling conditions at a Staten Island facility that cares for developmentally disabled children and adults that brought him national fame.
Rivera won a Peabody Award and national acclaim for exposing the horrific conditions and patient abuse at Willowbrook State School in Staten Island and Letchworth Village in Rockland County.
He also ran gangster Al Capone’s vault for the special opening in the basement of a Chicago hotel. The vault was empty, but the spectacle drew a large audience.
In 2011, Rivera famously questioned Casey Anthony about her daughter’s death, calling her a “selfish, narcissistic, self-serving shit.”
The journalist suffered a broken nose while fighting racists during the taping of Teen Hatemongers on his TV talk show.
The violence erupted after John Metzger, a 20-year-old guest of the White Aryan Resistance Youth, insulted a black guest, Roy Innis, calling him “Uncle Tom”.
Rivera also suffered a fractured nose while fighting racists during the taping of “Teen Hatemongers” on his television talk show in 1988
Boots on the ground: The former co-host of The Five has been a professional reporter since the ’70s; seen in a segment about wounded soldiers in Guatemala in 1978
A veteran broadcaster, he began his career as a local journalist in New York in the early 1970s before becoming a war correspondent
In 2021, Rivera signed a new multi-year deal with FOX to serve as a correspondent.
As part of that deal, he was set to host a new show for the FOX Nation streaming service, Cops: All Access, a cops round-up and retrospective.
Rivera, who celebrated his 80th birthday just days after retiring, was shown a montage of his best moments from the past few years on his last day at the network, which he described as “deeply touching.”
He added, “Every scene triggers an emotional response.” You remember how you felt when it happened. It was an endless adventure and took me to all corners of the world.
“I feel really great affection for the people in this building.” I feel emotional and deeply moved. I will always remember this morning.
“It’s something I didn’t expect.” “This celebration is beyond anything we’ve ever done.”
In a statement following Geraldo’s retirement, Fox said: “We have reached an amicable agreement with Geraldo over the past few weeks and look forward to celebrating him on Fox and Friends on Friday morning in what will be his final appearance on the channel.”