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Geraldo Rivera, a veteran of television, made his departure from Fox News official on Thursday after being sacked from the show “The Five.”
In a video uploaded to Twitter, Rivera said, “I’m not going to be on ‘The Five,'” the network’s 5 p.m. discussion show. I was let go from “The Five.” In the footage taken from a boat off Long Island’s Jones Beach, Rivera is heard saying, “And as a result of that, I quit Fox.”
Since joining the right-wing network in 2001, Rivera has stated he will “have more to say” on Friday morning’s “Fox and Friends” programme. In a statement released on Thursday, a Fox News representative said, “We reached an amicable conclusion with Geraldo over the past few weeks and look forward to celebrating him on Fox & Friends Friday morning, which will be his last appearance on the network.”
The announcement comes a little more than a week after Rivera indicated that his tenure as one of the recurring liberal co-hosts on “The Five” would soon be coming to an end. However, Rivera declared at the time that he would stay on the network as a correspondent at large.
His departure comes after controversy surrounding network star Greg Gutfeld, who had reprimanded Rivera in April after he tweeted following the termination of Tucker Carlson that the expelled host’s conspiracies regarding the January 6 attack on the US were false.