{"id":946448,"date":"2026-10-26T03:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T03:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/946448\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T03:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T03:24:09","slug":"former-fox-news-meterologist-janice-dean-sick-of-mean-girl-megyn-kelly-putting-people-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/946448\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Fox News meterologist Janice Dean &#8216;sick&#8217; of &#8216;mean girl&#8217; Megyn Kelly &#8216;putting people down&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Fox News meteorologist Janice Dean tried to stay mum on ex pal Megyn Kelly\u2019s on-air slams, but when she attacked the MS community, she could no longer stay quiet, she tells Page Six.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sick of her using her platform to put people down\u2026 She goes to the lowest denominator and constantly put women down,\u201d Dean, who has battled multiple sclerosis for 23 years, told Page Six.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly mentioned Dean on her podcast when she mocked Christina Applegate for <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/10\/20\/celebrity-news\/christina-applegate-reveals-ms-misdiagnosis-in-shocking-health-update\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">revealing she was misdiagnosed with the disease<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s crying now because I guess she no longer gets to be the face of this disease, and as she says, she\u2019s back to \u2018square one.\u2019 She\u2019s made like a cottage industry of talking about her MS,\u201d Kelly said of Applegate on her SiriusXM show.<\/p>\n<p>Janice Dean, pictured above, spoke out against Megyn Kelly after she slammed Christina Applegate\u2019s MS misdiagnosis. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Dean called Megyn Kelly, seen above on her SiriusXM show, heartless for her comments about Christina Applegate. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Kelly\u2019s commentary caused Dean to take to X and blast her as a \u201cmean girl.\u201d \u201cShe used to be one of my closest friends\u2026 Her comments about [Applegate] are disgusting,\u201d she wrote. <\/p>\n<p>She further told us what Kelly said was \u201cso heartless for a woman <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/10\/20\/celebrity-news\/christina-applegate-details-scary-health-decline-in-wake-of-ms-misdiagnosis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">misdiagnosed and doesn\u2019t know where to turn<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[MS] is a very misunderstood disease. We have no cure. It saps you of everything when you\u2019re not feeling well. <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/25\/media\/longtime-fox-friends-meteorologist-janice-dean-is-leaving-network-after-22-years-due-to-health-issues\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">It took my job away from me<\/a>,\u201d Dean tearfully said.<\/p>\n<p>Dean branded Kelly a \u201cmean girl\u201d in a post she wrote on X. x\/JaniceDean<\/p>\n<p>Christina Applegate, posing at the SAG Awards in 2023, revealed the shocking news that she was misdiagnosed with MS. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Dean, reporting the news on Fox in 2024, had to leave her job at Fox News due to her multiple sclerosis battle. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Dean added she\u2019s grateful for celebs like Applegate, who speak out about their battle with the disease and other illnesses. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to say more in defense of the people, who put their reputations on the line, and their body of work to say, \u2018I\u2019m vulnerable and I\u2019m sick\u2019\u2026 It\u2019s the loneliest place you can be \u2013 to hear [Applegate] cry and have Megyn Kelly use that against her is disgusting,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly hasn\u2019t responded to Dean or commented on the backlash she\u2019s received from speaking out about Applegate and her misdiagnosis. Her former Fox News pal, Eric Bolling, however slammed Dean\u2019s post on X as \u201cf\u2013king disgraceful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJanice, I worked with both of you at Fox. I saw firsthand how Megyn backed you and helped elevate your career. Watching you publicly trash her and now slap \u2018#meangirl\u2019 on it is f\u2013king disgraceful\u2026 You should be ashamed of this,\u201d Bolling wrote. <\/p>\n<p>Megyn Kelly\u2019s former Fox News colleague and pal, Eric Bolling, seen above, came to her defense. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Dean believes Kelly, pictured above, spews vitriol because she doesn\u2019t have any friends. Getty Images for Semafor<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy was he fired from Fox?\u201d Dean asked rhetorically. \u201cI\u2019ve heard stories about this guy for many years. Bolling being the guy to come to her rescue is not the superhero you want,\u201d she told us. (Bolling <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2017\/09\/08\/fox-news-cuts-ties-with-eric-bolling-cancels-the-specialists\/?_gl=1*1xvlkft*_gcl_au*MjAwMzY0MzM0MC4xNzkyNjA5MDM3*_ga*NDU1MTkyNDE3LjE3OTI2MDkwMzc.*_ga_0DZ7LHF5PZ*czE3OTI3OTI2MDUkbzckZzEkdDE3OTI3OTI3OTckajkkbDAkaDA.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">parted ways with Fox News in 2017<\/a> following a probe into whether he sent inappropriate text messages to colleagues, which he denied).<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, she has a theory about why Kelly spews vitriol in her independent hosting era. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe doesn\u2019t have any close friends. She\u2019s secluded herself to live in Connecticut, and doesn\u2019t get out into the world. It\u2019s very isolating and she doesn\u2019t have someone pulling her in to check her,\u201d Dean said.<\/p>\n<p>Dean, who has been in and out of the hospital in recent weeks, said she\u2019ll comment more when she\u2019s well enough. \u201cI don\u2019t want to go down the road she\u2019s gone down. I don\u2019t want to fight in the gutter, but I do want to raise awareness,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly did not comment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Fox News meteorologist Janice Dean tried to stay mum on ex pal Megyn Kelly\u2019s on-air slams, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":946449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,5484,75,282,24558,28304,24304,7460],"class_list":["post-946448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-christina-applegate","tag-entertainment","tag-exclusive","tag-fox-news","tag-megyn-kelly","tag-new-york-city-society","tag-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/946449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}