‘I haven’t eaten dinner with my wife on a weeknight in seven years.’ ‘Retirement is going great so far,’ chuckled Carlson, 53, as he emerged from his $5.5 million beach home in Boca Grande, Florida on Tuesday night.

Carlson was in a jokey mood during a brief exchange with a Mail reporter: On Tuesday night, the Daily Mail reported that he looked “like a man without a care in the world” on his way to dinner with his wife in Boca Grande, Florida. See you soon.”Ī Fox News source told New York’s Shawn McCreesh that Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott and Lachlan Murdoch made the decision to fire Carlson on Friday, echoing reporting in the New York Times and elsewhere.Īccording to The Wall Street Journal, Carlson heard the news only ten minutes before Fox announced it publicly, and the network plans to pay out the remainder of his current contract, last renewed in 2021, which amounts to about $20 million per year.Ī “person close to Fox leadership” commented to Semafor, “This is just classic Murdoch assassination - you’re their closest friend, their favorite child, and now you’re dead.”Ĭarlson has reportedly already hired entertainment lawyer Bryan Freedman, who has been representing ousted CNN host Chris Cuomo.Ĭarlson hasn’t commented publicly on the circumstances surrounding his departure. As long as you can hear the words, there is hope. Instead, he criticized the content and quality of debate on television, claiming that the most important topics “get virtually no discussion at all.” At the end, he wondered aloud: “Where can you still find Americans saying true things? There aren’t many places left, but there are some, and that’s enough. Carlson didn’t directly reference his termination in the two-minute video message, nor did he say anything about what he would do next. Carlson decries the state of debate in video messageĬarlson released a brief monologue on Wednesday night, his first appearance since being fired.

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