Welcome to Megyn Kelly Today, Today, a new daily column in which we will share the most memorable things that happened on Megyn Kelly Today every morning until we are no longer able to watch Megyn Kelly Today without feeling like there will be no tomorrow.
- Megyn Kelly walked onstage in a gray blouse and maroon skirt.
- Megyn Kelly said, “Happy Friday.”
- Megyn Kelly opened the show by updating the audience about the rape allegations against Brett Ratner and Kevin Spacey.
- Megyn Kelly said, “There’s something about knowing the face so well from the movie screen and the television—there’s something that makes it hard to process.”
- Megyn Kelly said, “Kevin Spacey’s attorney has not responded to [our] requests for comment.”
- Megyn Kelly said, “The number of accusers about Weinstein now? 87.”
- The audience gasped.
- Megyn Kelly spoke with Paz De La Huerta’s lawyer Aaron Filler.
- Megyn Kelly asked Aaron Filler, “Do you think [Harvey Weinstein] will be arrested if he returns to New York?”
- Aaron Filler said, “He will.”
- Aaron Filler said they have no idea where Harvey Weinstein is at the moment.
- Megyn Kelly cut to commercial.
- Megyn Kelly returned with an introduction about how the shows The Bachelor/Bachelorette work.
- Megyn Kelly welcomed a former Bachelorette producer named Becky Steenhoek and her lawyer Michael Morrison to discuss the harassment she suffered on set.
- Becky Steenhoek said the show’s EP and her supervisors often asked her questions about sex, personal grooming, and masturbation.
- Becky Steenhoek said, “I knew the show... I knew that they pushed boundaries, I guess I just didn’t expect those kinds of intimate, explicit questions and conversations to happen.”
- Becky Steenhoek said she was fired from the show because her “morals” got in the way, and she wasn’t being “enough of a bitch.”
- Michael Morrison said this is “about picking on the girl from Iowa. The conservative girl... This is all about bullying.”
- Michael Morrison, Becky Steenhoek, and Megyn Kelly discussed arbitration agreements.
- Megyn Kelly thanked both guests “for being here” and cut to commercial.
- Megyn Kelly welcomed Maria Shriver to the stage to discuss Alzheimer’s Awareness Month.
- Megyn Kelly cut to commercial.
- Megyn Kelly returned with Ireland Basinger-Baldwin, “the new face of Guess,” to discuss “positive body image.”
- Ireland Basinger-Baldwin said, “I think we all have flaws and it’s so important to embrace them, and that’s all I’m trying to do.”
- Bobby Finger laughed at the chyron at the bottom of Megyn Kelly Today, which read, “IRELAND BASINGER-BALDWIN / GUESS”
- Megyn Kelly asked what “mom and dad have to say” about Ireland Basinger-Baldwin’s modeling career.
- Ireland Basinger-Baldwin said, “My dad [Alec Baldwin] obviously never wants me showing anything. You can actually see his comments all over my instagram...he’s like put some clothes on, put a shirt on...He’s always gonna have that opinion. He’s proud of me and my mom [Kim Basinger] is proud of me. She thinks the images are beautiful...”
- Megyn Kelly said, “They are beautiful. And you are beuatiful. Good luck with it.”
- Ireland Basinger Baldwin said, “Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!”
- Megyn Kelly said, “Ireland Baldwin, everyone!”
- The audience applauded.
- Megyn Kelly cut to commercial.
- Megyn Kelly welcomed Grace Vanderwaal on to sing a song from her debut album.
- The camera lingered on the audience for way too long. (See the Clip of the Day.)
- Bobby muted the TV.
- Megyn Kelly cut to commercial.
- Megyn Kelly returned and once again asked people to pleeeeease come see her show by getting tickets at Today.com/MegynToday.
- Bobby Finger once again said, “I’ve tried like a dozen times and never get them, so quit asking.”
- Megyn Kelly Today ended.