Megyn Kelly has been dipping her toes into hot water for a while now. The American journalist, who currently hosts The Megyn Kelly Show – a talk show and podcast – on SiriusXM, airing live daily, made her name as a talk show host for Fox News for almost 15 years. She then left Fox in 2016 and joined NBC News in 2017, where she hosted Megyn Kelly Today, before leaving the broadcast channel in early 2019.
Recently, she made some comments about actress Erin Moriarty, who plays Starlight in the Prime Video show The Boys. Comparing an old photo of the actress with a recent one, the talk show host accused the actress of having changed her face with plastic surgery. And now Kelly has decided to go after Greta Gerwin, Margot Robbie, and their upset fans over the duos Oscar snub.
Megyn Kelly Weighs in on the Barbie Oscar Snub
Recently, in her podcast, The Megyn Kelly Show, the host decided to throw in her cents on the Barbie debate. While talking to guest Andrew Klavan, the author of The House of Love and Death, Kelly asked him his views on the whole controversy surrounding Barbie’s Oscar nominations. Mocking the fans, she said how people are upset that Barbie did not get enough nominations, specifically pointing at Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig missing out on the Best Actress and Best Director category.
She called out the “new feminists,” who are “very, very angry” at the fact that the Academy snubbed these two women from their deserving nominations. Talking to Klavan on the show, she said,
“Because you see, they were entitled to. That’s pretty much what I understand is the argument.”
Further adding, she said that Greta Gerwig did get nominated for Best Screenplay alongside Noah Baumbach (who is also her husband), but the upset is about her missing out on the directorial category.
“You are a misogynist, unless you’d actually make Margot Robbie the nominee for Best Actress and recognize Greta in her directing role. And that’s just how life works.”
Talking about how people are pointing at “patriarchy” as the reason Barbie missed out on these majn categories, she mocked the fans asking why this did not apply to America Ferrera, who was nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for the movie.
Megyn Kelly’s Recent Feud With Erin Moriarty
Before getting on the bad side of Margot Robbie, Greta Gerwig, and Barbie fans, the talk show host also went after The Boys star Erin Moriarty, whom she accused of plastic surgery. Megyn Kelly said the actress had decided to “completely change her face” with surgery after comparing two pictures – one old and one new.
In the first picture, Megyn Kelly said, Moriarty looked like “a very beautiful girl” before adding, “and now look at her.” The host also said how she thought the young actress had gotten “Kim Kardashian lips,” a “nose so skinny it looks like a pencil” and “cheek implants.” In response, Moriarty was not one to stay quiet after the “bullying.”
Moriarty said she received “a message about a disgustingly false, counterproductive to the degree of being ironically misogynistic video of Megyn Kelly” and was completely “horrified.” She also said she had expected negative criticism after coming back to the limelight, but the “verbal abuse” and “accusations” had gotten to her badly. Posting on her Instagram handle, the actress wrote,
“I’m horrified by the reaction, the reductive assumptions, and the aforementioned video that is a primary example of such harassment. It’s broken my heart. You’ve broken my heart. You’ve lost the privilege of this account.”
After the incident, the actress decided not to use her Instagram account anymore, but would not be deactivating so that her post responding to Megyn Kelly remains online.
