Less than one week after long time Fox News pundit Bill O'Reily was axed by the network over a growing number of accusations of sexual harassment in the workplace, another big name at Fox finds himself disputing any wrongdoing, in light of similar allegations made against him.
While former contributor Debbie Schlussel has since clarified that she doesn't believe she was sexually harassed by Sean Hannity, she went into detail during an interview on the Pat Campbell Show on Friday, April 21, in which she described having twice been invited to Hannity's hotel, only to experience a different vibe from the host after she rejected the invitation.
“I wasn’t booked on his show again, and he called me and yelled at me,” Schlussel said. “It was made clear to me that I didn’t go back to his hotel with him after. I got a very weird feeling about the whole thing, and I kind of knew I wouldn’t be back on his show.”
Fox News is defending Hannity through the allegations, claiming that Schlussel has made a habit of dragging the host and that this instance appears to be no different. In his own defense, Hannity calls the charges “100 percent false and a complete fabrication," before labeling Schlussel a “serial harasser who has been lying about me for well over a decade."
Meanwhile, former Fox CEO Roger Ailes was pinned with another accusation on Sunday, when former network host Alisyn Camerota revealed that she too had received an inappropriate invitation to a hotel room, that came with an insinuation that it would bring perks with it. Ailes was the first head to roll at Fox, when he was shown the door last summer, and given a $40 million severance payment on his way out.
Source: huffingtonpost.com
