Tuesday 2 August 2022 07:51 PM NewsNation knocks down report that Chris Cuomo will start hosting his ... trends now
NewsNation is knocking down a report that disgraced CNN host Chris Cuomo is taking a $700,000 yearly salary at his new gig with the fledgling media outfit and that he'll be working from his home in the Hamptons.
The Daily Beast reported that the once-high-flying newsman - who boasted a '10 suit rotation' while pulling down $6 million a year hosting the top-rated CNN show Cuomo Prime Time - will take a massive pay cut and produce his new show out of a home studio in his $2.9 million cottage on Long Island.
The publication also said that the New York political scion will no longer have a travel or clothing allowance.
A spokeswoman for NewsNation told DailyMail.com that Cuomo will broadcast his new program from the cable news outlet's studio in Manhattan and shot down the salary report, but declined to comment on the allowances.
'In addition to “Dan Abrams Live,” Chris Cuomo will have a studio at PIX along with other New York based NewsNation shows,' the spokeswoman said.
The show will broadcast at 8 p.m. starting on October 3, according to the Daily Beast.
The spokeswoman declined to comment on the reported date for the launch and the time slot.
Bookcases and black and white prints line the walls in Chris Cuomo's Manhattan apartment which serves double-duty as his home studio
Chris Cuomo makes an embarrassing admission that he's working from home because he has no other option
Rumors abound about Cuomo's comeback. He has been forced to hustle as a 'free agent' cobbling together money from his podcast, The Chris Cuomo Project and his new job with NewsNation.
In a recent Instagram post, Cuomo gave a tour of his home set-up, panning across a sound board and computer monitor and strolling through the modern-looking apartment set-up.
'We have everything we need here that I had in the studio - it's just in my home, because I dig the setting,' he says in the video. In the background, tripods, cables and sound-muffling black curtains surround his coffee table and occasional chair.
'This is the living room, which we've turned into a sit-down, you know, more casual,' he says. 'This is where it's going to happen except when my wife is here or anybody wants to live here. We'll just move the stands.'
Chris Cuomo hangs out at home in his self-styled studio where he's producing his podcast
In an Instagram video, Chris Cuomo sugar-coats his home set up during a tour where tripods and camera cables litter his living room
Cuomo was still able to pull top-level political guests on his podcast, which is ranked fourth on Apple iTunes
On the studio tour, Cuomo, dressed in a black T-shirt with the word 'purist' in all capital letters printed on the back, moves into the dining area, which is flooded by studio lights, and then to the kitchen.
'Now we have a kitchen, because with a lot of the guests, I'm hanging out and shooting the shit before and after the interview,' he says.
This is it. This is us in New York City. This is now home of the free agent and I'm loving it, because the show doesn't get cozier than when you do it at home,' he says, leaning on the sink, which appears to have dirty glasses in it.
Cuomo's podcast currently ranks fourth among Apple podcasts, according to the website Chartable.
NewsNation has become a sanctuary for disgraced broadcasters. Fallen Fox News host Bill O'Reilly is said to be in talk with the fledgling outfit
He recently interviewed West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, but don't expect to see a reprise of his chatty interviews with his brother, disgraced ex-governor Andrew Cuomo.
'Absolutely not,' a source told Page Six.
It's a ray of good news after a year of scandal for the New York political
