FNC Dismisses Kelly Vacation Conspiracy Theories

Fox News denied rumors over the wekeend that the network's Kelly File anchor took a 10-day vacation because of Donald Trump.

Megyn Kelly announced Wednesday on her program that she would be taking her first vacation in six months: "Well, it's been an interesting week and a long six months without a vacation for yours truly," she said to audiences. "So I'll be taking the next week and a half off spending some time with my husband and my kids trying to relax."

She continued, "the big challenge is trying to put down the electronica and unplug ... I am going to try and look at my little one's faces and go for bike rides and play at the beach and not look at you," she said, staring down at her phone.

Speculations arose following her announcement that the reasoning for the journalist's vacation is because of comments Trump made following the GOP debate, which included the former Apprentice star saying that she had "blood coming out of her eyes," is "overrated" and a "lightweight."

A Fox spokesperson confirmed that Kelly's vacation was previously planned and passed on the following statement to The Hollywood Reporter:

“The conspiracy theories about Megyn Kelly’s vacation rank up there with UFO’s, the moon landing and Elvis being alive. Megyn is on a pre-planned, annual summer vacation with her family, which is much deserved. To imply otherwise as Donald Trump and his campaign operatives have is not only wildly irresponsible, but downright bizarre. Perhaps Mr. Trump thinks it’s advantageous to his poll numbers to keep talking about Megyn, but that doesn’t change the fact that Roger Ailes has fully supported her and her tough journalistic questioning since day one and is thrilled with the added exposure from the debate which resulted in even higher ratings of The Kelly File this week. Anyone who knows Roger is aware of how historically and consistently loyal he is to all of his talent and how he protects them at all costs. As Governor Terry Branstad said today, ‘when you’re a candidate, you’ve got to basically answer the questions. You can’t just attack the person asking the questions. That doesn’t work.'”

Kelly returns to The Kelly File Aug. 24.