You ever have a first week of work where seemingly everything went wrong? Well, now you have something in common with Megyn Kelly.
The former Fox News anchor, who bolted to NBC News back in January for a reported $17 million, made her debut on the venerable Today show on Monday, hosting an all-new hour titled Megyn Kelly Today. But after the numerous stumbles Kelly suffered during her premiere week, NBC might want to considering retitling it Megyn Kelly: Is Today Over Yet?
Some of those gaffes were Kelly’s fault, and some were out of her control entirely. But they all added up to a colossally disappointing first week for NBC’s shiny new hire. (To be fair, the ratings were decent — nearly 3 million viewers tuned in to see Kelly’s Monday debut — but she’s still trailing her main rival, ABC’s Live With Kelly and Ryan, in the key daytime demo.)
Let’s take a quick look back at Kelly’s week from hell, with five awkward Todaymoments that went viral for all the wrong reasons: