Juan Williams Is Suddenly Out at Fox News' 'The Five'--And Insiders Are Blaming Co-Host Greg Gutfeld

[CatWoman]

Juan Williams, the longtime liberal co-host of Fox News’ late-afternoon panel show The Five, announced on-air Wednesday that he was leaving the program.

According to multiple sources familiar with the matter, one major driver of Williams’ sudden departure from the highly-rated opinion show was his run-ins with colleague Greg Gutfeld, who had wanted The Five to return to studio and felt Williams was the main reason they were filming remotely.

A Fox News spokesperson denied that “Gutfeld had anything to do with the move whatsoever” and referred to a statement from the showrunner Megan Albano who explained that Juan wanted to stay in D.C.

Williams, who has been with the show since 2011, was diagnosed with COVID-19 months ago, forcing the program to return to remote filming. The hosts had briefly resumed broadcasting from the Fox News studios in New York to the in the fall of 2020.

“This is my last day hosting The Five,” Williams said at the end of Wednesday’s broadcast.

“Covid taught me a lot of lessons,” he added. “As the show goes back to the New York studio, I’ll be staying in D.C. I’ll be working for Fox out of Washington. My work as a Fox News political analyst will continue.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/juan-williams-is-out-at-fox-news-the-five

Link to tweet

?s=20

[Grins]

1. "... the highly-rated opinion show."

What????? By whom?

[OriginalGeek]

4. lol, I've never even heard of it

All I know is Geraldo is a dope and he owes me an hour for that stupid vault.

[Raine]

11. Geraldo is just temporary

they're going to rotate hosts for awhile is what I read.

[OriginalGeek]

17. They could rotate Geraldo upside down

on a merry-go-round and it wouldn't scramble his brains any more than they already are.

Might even be an improvement.

[Raine]

19. LOL, I have to agree with that! 😂👍 nt

[waddirum]

22. I remember watching that show

and enjoying all of the background pieces about Capone. But the dud ending just made it beyond ridiculous.

[FBaggins]

14. Nielsen apparently

No accounting for taste

[pwb]

2. I don't know how he did it. Listenng to that crap

all the time.

[OnDoutside]

7. Money ? The greatest aphrodisiac.

[Mariana]

16. He's a performer. It was his job.

He was paid to play a role on that show.

[JohnSJ]

3. No respectable journalists or commentator would associate themselves with that outlet

[Midnight Writer]

5. Williams was set up as the Alan Colmes of the show.

The other hosts constantly berated him, talked over him, laughed out loud whenever he made a "liberal" point.

I hope whatever he got paid for being the foil was worth it.

[marybourg]

8. Juan is a fool. That's why he got the gig.

It’s the “foolish lib” slot. And the proof is in who got the job next.

[Raine]

10. Juan never put up good up " liberal" arguments

he didn't confront them, he'd gotten to be a poor spokesman. I don't think his heart was in it any longer. 🤔

[uponit7771]

6. Yep, GuTroll is a grade a 88er of course Juan wasn't welcomed

[Mike Nelson]

9. I think...

... Juan should take this opportunity to leave FOX completely - and apologize for his time there. However, I guess that's not in his plans... I hope a fat paycheck makes him happy. Geraldo is old enough to take over... but not liberal. They want an old liberal to make Republicans look young and hip.

[UTUSN]

12. Juan has been taking abuse back to the Brit Hume days. I don't know whether he has the

Stockholm or the Working-from-the-inside syndromes.

[underpants]

13. That's all he does on that show. I've watched it a few times

And this Gutfeld guy and Waters basically scream at Williams, declare victory, and then act like real douchenozzles.

[BradAllison]

21. I remember the night Obama won in 2008

Hume and whoever else white asshole with them might as well have turned to him and said "Well, your negro won".

[Johonny]

15. Alan Colmes was way better off FOX where he was actually allowed to talk

Even when FOX has liberals, the liberal is stuck constantly arguing conservative stawmen and imaginary problems. It's essentially a waste of time to appear on FOX for anyone reasonable or intelligent.

And get this shit off basic cable!

[Carlitos Brigante]

18. Juan "Thank You Sir! May I Have Another?!" Williams is still around? Talk about

Last edited Fri May 28, 2021, 09:20 PM - Edit history (1)

parting with one's dignity ages ago......

[waddirum]

23. I recall a story about Hannity pointing a gun

with a laser at Juan Williams on the set at Fox.

Even pointing the laser near someone’s eyes is a dangerous assault. Juan was too chickenshit to call the police like he should have.

[Carlitos Brigante]

24. Holy shit!! What??! I hadn't heard that one before. WTF? Yeah, call the

cops. Take a 2x4 to his noggin (with the size of that dude's head, one can't miss.). But do something. That shit's not funny. I don't care how close you think you are with someone...

[BradAllison]

20. Any "liberal" on FOX is just the Washington Generals n/m

[Kid Berwyn]

25. "You can trust the Five"...

...to be wrong.

[Peppertoo]

26. Greg Gutfeld is one of the most odious people.

He is worse than Hannity even.