Megyn Kelly was scheduled to front NBC's midterm election coverage on Tuesday night before being ousted from Today by network bosses for her blackface remarks.



A press release sent to members of the media in early September revealed that the network had planned to feature Kelly ,47, heavily in its midterm-election coverage on Tuesday night.

Bosses had even announced Kelly would front the broadcast alongside NBC heavyweights Lester Holt of the network’s Nightly News, Today host Savannah Guthrie and Meet the Press anchor Chuck Todd.

Megyn Kelly was scheduled to front NBC's midterm election coverage on Tuesday night before she was dramatically fired from the network over her 'Blackface' comments

Kelly was due to join NBC heavyweights Lester Holt (left), Savannah Guthrie (middle) and Chuck Todd right)

But on Monday, NBC released a video ad spot that removed Kelly from the lineup, showing only Holt, Guthrie and Todd at the desk for its 'The Vote: America’s Future' special live broadcast.

NBC News declined to comment on the issue, but a network insider told PageSix that Kelly is 'not going to be part of election-night coverage’.

The revelation comes as exit negotiations between Kelly and the station drag on for a second week.

It is understood executives had hoped had hoped to use the glamourous mother- of –three more in its political coverage as a way to get some of their money’s worth out of their three-year deal with her.

In January, Dailymail.com exclusively revealed that NBC staff members were 'horrified' that Kelly was part of the team covering the State of the Union.

She joined a line-up that included Lester Holt, Savannah Guthrie, Chuck Todd, Andrea Mitchell, and Tom Brokaw.

Kelly (left) previously hosted in a round-table format with the NBC heavyweights in September

Kelly is currently remains in exit negotiations with NBC over her severance package

'Megyn announced publicly that she was done with politics,' said the source, referencing the comment she made back in September about what she planned to cover on her NBC morning show.

No one knows what to talk with her about at the table for the coverage.

The network confirmed Megyn's SOTU appearance around the same time it was revealed she would be staying back at 30 Rock with Kathie Lee Gifford and Jenna Bush Hager for the Winter Olympics.

Megyn Kelly was photographed for the first time in a week exiting her Upper West Side apartment building on Wednesday (above)

She came armed with a smile and some doughnuts (above) as she approached a group of waiting photographers and asked that they not take pictures

Kelly was photographed for the first time in a week exiting her Upper West Side apartment building last Wednesday

Her husband Douglas Brunt was not with her but could be seen looking on from above from one of their apartment windows (above)

Kelly and NBC are said to fighting over money and whether or not Kelly will sign a non-disclosure as part of her exit.

’It’s all out war in negotiations between Megyn and NBC,’ said one source close to Kelly.

‘She doesn’t just want the remainder of her $69 million contract, she wants more money on top as compensation for what she believes is NBC’s attempt to not just have her off the air but to end her career.’

Megyn Kelly had texted Luann de Lesseps to apologize for referencing her Diana Ross costume (above) in the panel about blackface that led to her dismissal from Today reports US Weekly

An NBC source with knowledge of the situation said that Kelly is also refusing to sign an NDA unless her monetary demands are met, although a source close to Kelly claims it is not money that is the issue.

BC host Megyn Kelly apologized to colleagues on Tuesday after her comments defending racist Halloween gags prompted an immediate backlash.

Kelly made the offending remarks during an awkward roundtable discussion about inappropriate and offensive costumes on her eponymous one-hour block of the Today show, known as Megyn Kelly Today.

During the segment on Tuesday, Kelly said it was OK when she was growing up for white people to dress up as black characters, and she spoke out against a controversy that erupted last year over a reality star who portrayed Diana Ross.

'But what is racist? Kelly asked. Because you do get in trouble if you are a white person who puts on blackface on Halloween, or a black person who puts on whiteface for Halloween.

'Back when I was a kid that was OK, as long as you were dressing up as, like, a character'.

Later in the discussion, Kelly brought up Luann de Lesseps, a star on The Real Housewives of New York who drew a backlash last year for dressing up as Ross.

Many observers were aghast at Kelly's comments, and some noted that the panel did not include a single person of color.

Also absent from the discussion was any mention of the ugly history of blackface, a tradition spanning centuries meant to perpetuate racist stereotypes.

Kelly left Fox News in 2017 to sign a contract with NBC worth a reported $23 million a year.