Former Trump aide Hope Hicks joins Megyn Kelly’s – Business News
Hope Hicks, a former high aide to President Trump, is becoming a member of forces with Megyn Kelly to help the podcasting star grow her burgeoning media empire, The Post has realized.
Hicks, 36, on Monday will probably be named chief working officer of Kelly’s Devil May Care Media, which incorporates “The Megyn Kelly Show,” the morning information show “AM Update with Megyn Kelly,” in addition to the newly launched MK Media, a community of exhibits from journalists and creators.
“Hope Hicks is exactly the kind of woman I want running my company with me — strong, smart, strategic and the embodiment of class and poise,” Kelly stated in a assertion obtained solely by The Post.
Hope Hicks is becoming a member of Megyn Kelly’s media company as chief working officer. AP
“She’s at the top of a growing media conglomerate and there’s no limit to where she can take it; my best-in-the-business staff and I are thrilled to have her on board.”
Hicks will report to Kelly and lead business development for Devil May Care, which was launched by the conservative media star in 2020.
“Megyn has used her talent, integrity, and unparalleled credibility to create content unlike anything else available today,” Hicks advised The Post.
“I am incredibly humbled and thrilled to be joining Megyn and her team in continuing to build what is undoubtedly a flourishing business.”
“The Megyn Kelly Show” launched as an audio-only podcast in September 2020, earlier than partnering with SiriusXM in 2021 to turn into a reside, each day radio show and develop to video.
It is now one of the most-consumed impartial exhibits within the nation — a high program on each Apple and Spotify podcast charts, with a YouTube channel that has over 3.7 million subscribers.
Megyn Kelly tapped Hicks to help with the business development of her burgeoning media company. Devil May Care Media
Content from the show will get tons of of tens of millions of views monthly throughout all platforms, with tens of millions of followers on Instagram, TikTok and X, amongst different social platforms, the company stated.
In March, Devil May Care introduced the launch of MK Media with new exhibits hosted by journalist and 2Way founder Mark Halperin, Daily Mail tradition columnist Maureen Callahan, who had beforehand labored for The Post, and influencer and political commentator Link Lauren.
MK Media is set to launch a true crime channel subsequent and can reveal the small print quickly, the company stated.
Kelly’s namesake show has constantly topped the podcast charts on Apple and Spotify. Getty Images
Hicks, who labored for the Trump Organization earlier than serving as press secretary for Trump’s first White House marketing campaign in 2016, has been working her own media consulting company the previous 4 years
The Greenwich, Conn., native was employed because the White House communications director following the Republican’s beautiful victory over Hillary Clinton and have become one of Trump’s most trusted advisers.
She stepped down in 2018 however returned in 2020 to function counselor to the president till 2021.
Hicks, a former high aide to President Trump, acquired to know Kelly during the 2016 presidential marketing campaign. MICHAEL REYNOLDS/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
In between her White House stints, Hicks joined Fox Corp. as govt vice president and chief communications officer.
Fox Corp. shares common possession with The Post’s guardian company, News Corp.
Kelly first acquired to know Hicks during Trump’s first run for the White House. The anchor famously traded barbs with him in 2015 whereas moderating a GOP presidential debate for Fox News.
Megyn Kelly interviewing FDA Commissioner Marty Makary. Devil May Care Media
She pressed the then-longshot Republican candidate about misogynistic, sexist feedback he made previously, reminiscent of calling some ladies “fat pigs, dogs, slobs, and disgusting animals.”
The heated exchange led to Trump’s infamous remark to Don Lemon, who was then an anchor at CNN, telling him that Kelly had “blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her … wherever.”
Nonetheless, Kelly supported Trump’s return to the White House.
She just lately advised Stephen A. Smith on his Sirius show about how she’s been in a position to “check” her “personal feelings” about Trump and that she’s “100% rooting” for the president.
