Megyn Kelly said she is “thrilled” and “absolutely delighted” that Joy Reid is out at MSNBC, but lamented, “But we won’t have her to kick around anymore, there’s a little sadness in that.”
The SiriusXM host said on her Monday show, “I’m so torn. I’m thrilled she’s gone. She literally was the most racist person on television, her and her most favorite guest, Elie Mystal, so they deserve 100% both to be fired,” she said. Mystal, who, like Reid is Black, and a correspondent for The Nation.
Kelly admitted, “But we won’t have her to kick around anymore, there’s a little sadness in that. This is one of the many reasons why most of us are absolutely delighted to see her get fired from this show…. We’ll miss her a little I guess…?”
The former Fox News host did, however, fault NBC for the way they notified Reid and her staff, who learned of Sunday’s cancellation of TheReidOut from press reports and not directly from the network. Kelly said. “Classic NBC move, such a classy group over there.”
She went on to say MSNBC has “among the dumbest people” and that Reid “appears to have been the dumbest and the worst-rated.”
Reid shared her reaction to the cancellation during a livestream of Win With Black Women phone call Monday, “I’ve been through every emotion from, you know, anger, rage, disappointment, hurt… guilt. You know, that I let my team lose their jobs. But in the end, where I really land and where I’ve landed on today is just gratitude.”
Reid told the livestream viewers, who, according to The Daily Beast, numbered more than 10,000, “Where I come down on that is I’m not sorry. I am not sorry that I stood up for those, those things, because those things are of God.”
She hosted “The ReidOut” on MSNBC from 2020 to 2025.
Her exit comes amid a network-wide reshuffle at the news channel that had her supporters, including Tamron Hall, calling for a boycott of MSNBC.
TheWrap has reached out to Reid’s reps for comment.
