McHenry and former WWE wrestler Tyrus (real name George Murdoch) started a show called
Un-PC on Fox News’s streaming platform last November. You have not heard of it, but that’s okay, because it’s already undergone an important change: Tyrus was quietly replaced by someone named Tom Shillue back in mid-April, no formal explanation was given, and the show kept right on chugging along. Tyrus, meanwhile, was given his own Fox Nation show, called
NUFFSAID.
The Daily Beast
reported last week that Tyrus left
Un-PC as the result of “a personal dispute,” arising from “a complaint” made by McHenry. Fox News declined to comment on the matter, but the network continued to give Tyrus appearances across its “opinion shows,” suggesting that perhaps the split came down to something as benign as a garden-variety personality conflict. But
today’s report clears up the ambiguity:
[M]ultiple sources have confirmed to The Daily Beast that the dispute centered around McHenry’s contention that Tyrus had, on multiple occasions, sent her unwanted and unsolicited text messages with lewd, sexual comments.
[...]
McHenry’s complaint to management about the eccentric Fox personality wasn’t all that surprising to some of his colleagues. Two sources who have worked at Fox News told The Daily Beast that Tyrus has long had a reputation for regularly making off-color or “politically incorrect” remarks or jokes. “He’s got a wild sense of humor, if we’re being generous,” one current female Fox employee said.
Read more:
https://deadspin.com/report-britt-mchenrys-co-host-moved-off-fox-nation-sho-1835433457