Is Geraldo Next to Go? Fox News Abruptly Cancels Veteran Host's Appearances on 'The Five'
May 5 2023, Published 9:00 a.m. ET
Geraldo Riveraās appearances on the Fox News program The Five were abruptly canceled this week, Breaking Celebrity News has learned, causing concerns that the veteran host may be the next victim to be axed from the conservative news network.
In a sudden development to come just days after Tucker Carlson was abruptly fired from Fox News last week, Rivera took to Twitter to announce his scheduled appearances on The Five for both Thursday and Friday had been canceled.
āMy appearances today and tomorrow on The Five have been canceled,ā he wrote on Thursday. āIām sure thereās a good reason.ā
āNever fear, Iāll be back week after next,ā the veteran Fox News host continued. āStay safe and happy. Thanks.ā
Rivera has not appeared on The Five since Friday, April 21 ā which also happened to be the last day Carlsonās program, Tucker Carlson Tonight, aired on the network before his firing that following Monday.
The 79-year-old longtime host shares the āliberalā seat on The Five alongside Fox News contributor Jessica Tarlov and former Democratic House Rep. Harold Ford Jr., and Rivera is regularly one of the most āoutspoken left-leaning voicesā on the otherwise conservative network.
On April 26, two days after Fox News announced Carlson was no longer with the network, Rivera again took to Twitter to slam the fired Tucker Carlson Tonight host for his āperverse January 6 conspiracy theory bulls--t.ā
āI donāt wish ill on anybody, but there is no doubt ā as I said at the time ā Tucker Carlsonās perverse January 6 conspiracy theory was ā[expletive],āā Rivera wrote.
āHaving lost the election President Trump incited an insurrection that sought to undermine our Constitutional process,ā he added.
As Breaking Celebrity News previously reported, Carlsonās sudden departure from the network ā as well as Riveraās mysterious disappearance from The Five ā came shortly after Fox News agreed to a $787.5 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems.
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Dominion sued the Rupert Murdoch-owned network for $1.6 billion over allegations Fox News and its hosts helped promote former President Donald Trumpās false claims the 2020 presidential election was rigged against him.
Although the two parties ultimately settled for nearly $800 million, a cache of text messages, emails, and other exchanges from various Fox News hosts were released in the process of the defamation lawsuit.
