It is bone Three years since Chris Cuomo was eliminated from CNN – But the feelings of fuel remain in the network about their expulsion and the departure of their boss, Jeff Zucker.
Cuomo revived the duration of the CNN dispute a recent episode of the Patrick Bet-David podcast When raising his former best friend of cable news, Don Lemonfor not having his back when he was fired.
However, the sources tell Page Six that it was Cuomo who broke the “Bro Code” when he allegedly stabbed his old boss, Jeff Zucker, and his girlfriend Allison Gollust, who were wrapped in a scandal at that time.
“Jeff put him during stellar schedule. Jeff protected him and Chris sold it,” a source told Page Six. “Hello stabbed [Zucker] Opposite [by] Trying to knock down the network, “they added.
Multiple sources said they believe that Cuomo was the complainant behind the relationship of Zucker and Gollust, despite being “the worst secret kept in the media,” as a person said.
Cuomo described the accusation as “absurd” in a statement to page six. (It is currently in a $ 125 million legal battle With CNN).
Meanwhile, the matter led Zucker to resign as head of CNN, while Gollust, who once worked for Cuomo’s brother, former New York governor Andrew Cuomo, possibly resigned as CMO.
We are told that some CNN employees are still sore in Cuomo, whom they believe, “they tried to tear down the network,” filed a lawsuit when he got the boat.
“He felt vindictive. Jeff and Allison were loved. Chris was not. I don’t think I heard a person say something good about him,” a media source told Page Six.
Another source familiar with the situation told us: “No one in CNN talks with [Cuomo]”After trying to” stain anyone’s credibility and reputation. ”
A source told us that the situation also ended his friendship with Lemon, who He told Mediaite Last year he still loves the host of Newsnation.
Cuomo criticized the accusations as “absurd” and told us: “I have many CNN friends. It was a great place.”
“The rest of this is absurd and will come out in litigation. If Jeff Zucker or Don Lemon because to have an honest conversation with me, they know how to find me,” he said.
Zucker and Lemon did not comment.
An internal family with the situation then ruled out Cuomo’s comments as “absurd” and a “naked game for attention.”
Cuomo and Lemon previously hosted the podcast “The homenff” as A spin-off of its night transfers once popular in CNNAmong his past shows, “Cuomo Prime Time” and “Don Lemon Tonight”.
Despite proclaiming before, how real was his joke, Cuomo said in the Podcast interview that the jokes was only Zucker’s idea, due to his concern for how Lemon would open his program.
In 2022, Zucker wrote colleagues in a memorandum: “As part of the research on Chris Cuomo’s mandate in CNN, they asked me about a consensual relationship with my nearest colleague, someone with whom I have worked that more than what more than what tea changed the relationship with the relationship with the relationship with the relationship with the Ged Ged Geded Geded Geded Geded Geded. It it it it it is it it it it is it it.
