Fox News Host Eric Bolling Accused Of Sending Inappropriate Photos To Female Colleagues
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August 5, 2017Fox News’ Eric Bolling has been accused of sending inappropriate photos to some of his Fox Business/Fox News colleagues.
This comes from a report from the Huffington Post. The outlet cites 14 anonymous sources.
For this story, HuffPost spoke to 14 sources in and out of Fox News and Fox Business, all of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity either because they currently work at the networks and aren’t allowed to speak to members of the press without prior authorization or because they have confidentiality agreements with Fox News and its parent company 21st Century Fox.
Yeah.
Recipients of the photo confirmed its contents to HuffPost, which is not revealing their identities. The women, who are Bolling’s current and former Fox colleagues, concluded the message was from him because they recognized his number from previous work-related and informal interactions. The messages were sent several years ago, on separate occasions.
The women did not solicit the messages, which they told colleagues were deeply upsetting and offensive. One of the recipients said that when she replied to Bolling via text, telling him never to send her such photos again, he did not respond. Four people, outside of the recipients, confirmed to HuffPost they’d seen the photo, and eight others said the recipients had spoken to them about it.
Eric Bolling’s attorney Michael J. Bowe has responded to the claims, but his statement is incredibly lame.
“Mr. Bolling recalls no such inappropriate communications, does not believe he sent any such communications, and will vigorously pursue his legal remedies for any false and defamatory accusations that are made.”
It’s not exactly the most definitive statement. He doesn’t recall? He “does not believe” he sent any d*ck pics? He either did, or he didn’t. There’s really no in between.
A Fox News spokesperson told the Huffington Post that the network plans to investigate the matter.
Statement from Fox News Spokesperson: “We were just informed of this late Friday afternoon via a Huff Post inquiry and plan to investigate the matter.”
Guess we’ll see where this one goes…
