Former Fox News anchor and host of NBC's Megyn Kelly Today is also a morning talk show host who knows controversy all too well. Five years after asserting that Santa is white on The Kelly File (and then later claiming she meant it as a joke), Kelly defended wearing blackface makeup while celebrating Halloween during a Megyn Kelly Today segment.
The talk show host claimed that she didn't see the harm in blackface, as long as it was done under the guise of playing a role. "When I was a kid, that was OK just as long as you were dressing as character," she said. Though she later apologized in an email to staffers and then read an apologetic statement on air, NBC canceled Megyn Kelly Today only one year into Kelly's three-year contract.
