Moments after the Washington Post announced her new TV project, Britt McHenry showed the personality that Fox 5 is paying for.
The former ESPN reporter, a victim of the network’s April round of layoffs last year, celebrated her new gig with a Twitter fight.
McHenry posted that she will co-host “Like It or Not” for Fox 5 in Washington, much to the chagrin of Michael Jenkins, an NBC Sports Washington reporter who didn’t feel her relevance and media attention square. McHenry later deleted her tweets that helped further the feud.
“Bitterness isn’t a good look on a grown man,” she wrote in a helpfully screengrabbed message.
That’s exactly what Fox 5 is signing up for.
McHenry will team with fellow former ESPN personality Bram Weinstein and Washington’s WPGC radio producer Guy Lambert for a weekly half-hour program that will talk politics, entertainment and pop culture. The conservative McHenry will be free of the chains that she felt while at the Worldwide Leader, where she tried to constrain herself to sports, but could not help herself on social media.
“Buckle up!” the station said in a release for the show that will debut Friday at 10:30 p.m. “This isn’t your typical traditional news program. Bram, Britt and Guy are provocative and intelligent and will present their candid opinions and observations on a wide range of news of the day topics and issues.”
McHenry has been popping up on Fox News and writing for The Federalist since ESPN laid her off, for which she blamed her political views. The 31-year-old rose to a certain, polarizing level of prominence following video of her dressing down a towing-lot attendant in 2015. She also has emerged in her year of unemployment for various controversies and feuds, ranging from purchasing Twitter followers, to beefing with Craig Sager’s daughter, to shaming Kevin Durant for having the audacity to not visit the White House, to calling Colin Kaepernick as GQ’s Citizen of the Year a “joke.”
She says she’s just getting started with her post-ESPN life.
“Few other jobs to announce in March,” she wrote. “Stay tuned.”