A day after Don Lemon sued Elon Musk and X over a canceled deal for a talk show, the X honcho has offered a curt explanation. “He made a series of impressively insane demands,” Musk alleged in a post. “We declined. Therefore, there was no deal.” Musk did not elaborate …
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Don Lemon has sued Elon Musk and X, formerly Twitter, over his canceled content deal with the platform, accusing the billionaire and and the company of fraud, negligent misrepresentation, misappropriation of name and likeness, and breach of express contract. The suit comes over four months after a very public fallout …
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Don Lemon’s interview with Elon Musk for The Don Lemon Show, which marked the beginning and end of his brief deal to start broadcasting on X (formerly Twitter), dropped Monday morning and is pretty much exactly what you’d expect: a lot of ducking, dodging, hypotheticals, gotchas, and reverse gotchas. During …
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Former CNN host Don Lemon revealed on Wednesday that just hours after filming an interview with Elon Musk for the premiere of a show to air exclusively on X (formerly Twitter), the platform’s impulsive owner killed the streaming deal altogether. In a statement shared on X, Lemon said Musk unilaterally …
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Don Lemon spoke about his responsibility as a journalist and American to “tell the truth” in his first interview since his ousting from CNN after 17 years earlier this year. “I have a responsibility, not only as a journalist but as an American, to tell the truth, and to abide …
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“I don’t think there’s a crowd that’s a more strange mix than this,” offers Roy Wood Jr. “It’s just too many different types of people, all in the same place, and you’re trying to figure out the joke that’s going to hit all of those people. And then, you have …
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Before comedian — and The Daily Show correspondent — Roy Wood Jr. took the stage to host the 2023 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, a bizarre orgy of politicians, media personalities, and dressed-to-the-nines celebs summoned by media companies as their guests and selfie partners (this year included the likes of Julia …
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Don Lemon stepped out onto the red carpet at the TIME 100 Gala in New York on Wednesday following his abrupt firing from CNN earlier this week. The former anchor appeared to be in good spirits and was joined by his his fiancé, Tim Malone. “I’m doing well, and I’m …
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CNN This Morning returned on Tuesday for the first time sinceDon Lemon‘sdramatic exit from the networkwas announced on Monday. Co-hosts Poppy Harlow and Kaitlan Collins addressed the departure of their former colleague and co-host at the top of the show. “As you may have heard, yesterday CNN parted ways with …
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Tucker Carlson isn’t the only cable news host leaving a major network today. Don Lemon is officially out at CNN. Lemon shared the news on Twitter Monday, April 24, writing that he was “informed this morning by my agent” that he’d been ousted from the network. Lemon said he was …
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