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By Andrea Cavallier For Dailymail.Com
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<span class="date">23:22 19 Feb 2023, upgraded 00:16 20 Feb 2023</span>
Don Lemon will not appear on CNN This Morning on Monday as his future at the network appears to be holding on by a thread after he made questionable remarks about Republican governmental prospect Nikki Haley being ‘past her prime.’
The 56-year-old anchor was set to be back on the early morning program tomorrow with co-hosts Poppy Harlow and Kaitlan Collins – however he is now not on the lineup, according to a copy of the schedule obtained by Confider.
Lemon came under fire when he made ‘sexist’ talk about Thursday’s reveal when going over Haley’s tip that political leaders 75 and older need to deal with psychological proficiency tests.
CNN’s Chairman Chris Licht knocked Lemon’s remarks as ‘distressing, undesirable and unreasonable to his co-hosts, and eventually a substantial diversion to the terrific work of this organization.’
Lemon was not on the program Friday, however signed up with a CNN editorial call from Miami where he said sorry to staff for his remarks.
Monday’s reveal will be anchored by Harlow and Sara Sidner in New York with Collins in Poland for President Joe Biden’s check out. But Lemon’s future at CNN appears to be holding on by a thread.
‘There are continuous discussions about Don’s future,’ an individual knowledgeable about the matter informed Confider. ‘He is a continuous diversion.’
Lemon’s remarks supposedly left lots of staff not impressed, and outraged lots of audiences when he provided his viewpoint about when he thinks a female remains in her prime.
‘Nikki Haley isn’t in her prime, sorry,’ he had actually said on the program. ‘A female is thought about to be in their prime in 20s and 30s and possibly 40s.’
But Lemon was identified in Miami on Friday cleaning off the criticism by unwinding with his partner Tim Mahone at $2,000-a night high-end beach resort Faena.
Lemon was changed for the day by Audie Cornish, as the program prevented acknowledging the remarks he made the day prior to regardless of increasing require him to be ejected.
‘His remarks were distressing, undesirable, and unreasonable to his co-hosts, and eventually a substantial diversion to the terrific work of this organization,’ Licht informed staffers on Friday early morning, according to a readout of the call obtained by Confider.
Lemon said on the call: ‘I’m sorry. I didn’t indicate to harm anybody. I did not indicate to upset anybody.’
But according to RadarOnline.com, Lemon’s colleagues have actually knocked him for having a ‘enormous ego’ and think he’s outlining to leap ship.
‘He has an enormous ego and he’s the sort of individual who walks around stating he’s not going to take the fall for his program tumbling, it’s not his fault and the network’s tanking, and they should not have actually pressed him out of his primetime slot,’ a within informed RadarOnline.
‘The rankings are way down, the brand-new employer is carrying out hard brand-new guidelines, and nobody enjoys. All these individuals were spoiled with advantages and pats on the back previously and all of an abrupt Don, Wolf Blitzer and others are at a point of ‘yikes, we remain in difficulty,’ the expert included.
Tensions at the network have actually continued to increase given that Licht showed up and experts think Lemon – and other leading anchors – understand they might be ousted if rankings do not enhance.
‘Don still believes extremely extremely of himself and he’s continuing to put feelers out in other places, though it’s going to be a difficult sell,’ the expert said. ‘Nobody’s going to desire Don or any of his unpleasant colleagues with those bad rankings routing after them.’
Last week, experts informed DailyMail.com that Lemon is ‘disrespectful, self-righteous and plainly sexist’, including that ‘his apology suggested absolutely nothing.’
They said: ‘Don has actually been skating on thin ice for so long and lots of desired him fired in December when he freaked out on Kaitlin Collins for no factor. She remained in tears and it was so unsuitable.
Regardless of his political association, his remarks that Nikki Haley being previous her prime were revolting. Poppy was fuming, as she needs to be, and still is.
‘He is disrespectful, self-righteous and plainly sexist. Nikki did the best thing by calling him out.
‘His apology suggested absolutely nothing and there is a lot pressure for him to be canned. It would be a shock if he wasn’t.’
Collins was likewise fast to sing the applauds of Cornish, her co-host for a day, by publishing an image of them together on her Instagram.
Harlow, Lemon and Collins had actually been going over Haley’s proposition throughout a speech on Wednesday where she revealed her run for president.
Lemon, who is 5 years older than Haley, 51, said the political leader needs to tread gently on the subject since ‘a female remains in their prime in 20s and 30s and possibly 40s.’
Haley herself reacted to Lemon’s remarks, stating: ‘It’s constantly the liberals who are the most sexist’ in a tweet with a clip of the video sector.
Lemon excused his talk about Thursdays program, and tweeted: ‘The recommendation I made to a female’s ‘prime’ today was inartful and unimportant, as associates and enjoyed ones have actually explained, and I regret it.
‘A female’s age does not specify her either personally or expertly. I have many females in my life who show that every day.’
A furious Harlow supposedly stormed off the set following the ‘sexist’ exchange on Thursday, sources informed the New York Post.
Harlow took a ‘well timed’ restroom break and was followed into the restroom by Kaitlan Collins – with the source including the tense relationship has actually been ‘smoldering for months’.
Collins had her own confrontation with her fellow host, who was seen on electronic camera consistently disrupting her throughout the program on December 8.
Lemon apparently made Collins range from the embeded in tears on after he scolded her in front of the tv team and their other co-host.
Since the occurrence, Lemon has actually been sent to Memphis and on other tasks, while Collins worked from another location from Washington DC on a number of events in January.
CNN This Morning has actually suffered a rankings bomb and early last month experienced its least-viewed week given that launch, balancing simply over 330,000 audiences.
