CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota commented on network President Jeff Zucker’s exit Wednesday, hours after the news broke.
That morning, Zucker sent out an email announcing his resignation over a relationship he had with CNN’s chief marketing officer, Allison Gollust. Neither reported the relationship.
“I feel it deeply personally, but also, I think I speak for a lot of us and our colleagues. This is an incredible loss,” Camerota said during a live segment. “It’s just so regrettable how it happened.”
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The two have known each other for years, even working together at NBCUniversal previously. “I acknowledged the relationship evolved in recent years. I was required to disclose it when it began but I didn’t,” Zucker wrote. “I was wrong.”
“These are two consenting adults who are both executives,” she said. “That they can’t have a private relationship feels wrong on some level.”
Meanwhile, others celebrated Zucker’s exit on social media. Former President Donald Trump released a statement to commemorate his resignation, saying, “Jeff Zucker, a world-class sleazebag who has headed ratings and real-news-challenged CNN for far too long, has been terminated for numerous reasons, but predominantly because CNN has lost its way with viewers and everybody else.”
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Zucker became CNN’s president in January 2013. During that same year, Gollust left Andrew Cuomo’s team as communications director.
