The Megyn Kelly Show was one of the 25 podcasts nominated for the Best Podcast category at the Golden Globes. Kelly’s program wasn’t one of the finalists for the inaugural honor, however, and she’s now explaining why.
On her SiriusXM program, Kelly revealed that she withdrew the program from consideration for the honor.
“It was brought to my attention by someone connected with this whole system that if you want to actually be considered, you have to go talk to the Golden Globes people,” Kelly shared. “Like, some voters out there, who will determine whether you actually get the nomination. And then, of course, whether you win.
“So, you’d have to go out there and do a little dog and pony show, like, ‘Choose me! Choose me!’ The whole thing was so bizarre,” she said. “I had zero interest in their stupid awards.”
Kelly noted that she came up in the business a product of the Roger Ailes school of thinking that awards are farces and that conservatives can’t win the awards because the system was “run by leftists” or it signaled you were making inroads with the other side of the political aisle.
“We’ve never, literally never, submitted for an award in any context, and have no desire to get one,” Kelly continued. “So there was obviously zero chance I was going to be doing the dog and pony show or doing anything to get this Golden Globe. We had our producers withdraw our name from consideration … We refused. So it was no mystery to us that we would be not actually nominated, because we told them, ‘thanks, but no thanks.'”
The finalists for the award are:
- Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
- Call Her Daddy
- Good Hang with Amy Poehler
- Smartless
- The Mel Robbins Podcast
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