Tuesday 9 August 2022 08:01 PM Rachel Maddow reveals she was mentored by Roger Ailes, praises Tucker Carlson ... trends now
TV host Rachel Maddow has revealed she thinks Fox News host Tucker Carlson is 'doing great right now,' how Roger Ailes mentored her and also spoke about being pursued by CNN - only for her agents to balk at the $10 to $15 million salary offer.
In April, Maddow - who first started out by working on the 'talented' Carson's 11 p.m. show on the liberal news network in 2005 - shocked her audience by announcing she'd be hosting 'The Rachel Maddow Show' on a weekly basis, instead of five nights a week.
NBCUniversal had reportedly offered her $30 million to be on-air one night a week and the flexibility to focus on more long-form projects, like podcasts, specials, documentaries, etc., Vanity Fair reported.
Speaking of her success in an interview with the magazine, Maddow, 49, credited her relationship with late Fox News executive Roger Ailes, describing how he mentored her and helped her.
Jeff Zucker, former president of CNN, wanted to snag Maddow for the now-defunct CNN+, but Maddow and her agents 'balked' at the proposed $10 to $15 million salary
'There’s a sort of, like, respecting the game, in terms of people who are doing well and people who are good at it. I mean that was the basis of my professional friendship with Roger Ailes,' Maddow said.
'I wanted tips from him about how to be better on TV. And he was willing to talk to me about what I was doing well, and doing poorly, to help me get better,' she continued.
Ailes was once a top executive at Fox before more than a dozen women, including host Megyn Kelly, leveled sexual harassment claims against him, forcing him to resign.
Maddow said Carlson has 'always been talented' and admitted the Fox News host is 'doing great right now'
Maddow revealed she was close with Roger Ailes, the late former Fox News executive who was ousted from the company following claims of sexual harassment
Maddow compared her view of the Fox News royalty to baseball players, saying 'some of those rivalries are bitter rivalries, that doesn’t mean you don’t study the pitching technique of their star pitcher.'
Maddow now wishes to expand her career into different mediums, but disclosed she sifted through a variety of offers before settling.
Jeff Zucker, the former
