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Popular Fox News host Laura Ingraham has given an important announcement about her health status after being in a frightening accident.
“It started with a fun day of skiing in Colorado with my boys over MLK weekend when, on the last run, they challenged mom to a race. Of course, I took the bait,” she said on an episode of “The Ingraham Angle” “I won the race, to the Aspen hospital E.R. The amazing Steadman Clinic told me the bad news. As I suspected, I blew out the knee, two ligaments, the ACL, the PCL — major bummer. He wasn’t even on call that day.”
“My family rallied here: my brother Jimmy, my sister-in-law Stephanie,” the host said. “I didn’t wipe out once, until I took the bait.”
“One of the best orthopedic sports docs in the United States told me, ‘Don’t worry.’ He’d operate and get me with the best rehab folks. And, boy, did he!” she said. “It’s going to be kind of a long road ahead, of rehab, but we’re going to get there. Thanks to everyone out there for your prayers and your concern.”
A personal health update. pic.twitter.com/Eux2R1nGyG
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) January 31, 2023
Last week, Ingraham had sad news to announce to those who watch her show.
The host said she was involved in a skiing accident and is taking some days off of work to recover.
“The weekend before last, I decided to take my boys skiing in Colorado,” she said. “I didn’t wipe out once — until I took the bait.”
She said that her son challenged her to a race.
“I took off after my 14-year-old. Well, suffice it to say, it was all downhill from there,” the host said.
She said that on the “last run of the day, about a quarter mile from the bottom, at Aspen Highlands” she slid on the ice and “heard a snap.”
“I immediately knew it was my ACL because I had done my other knee at the same resort 20 years ago,” the host said.
“I’m going to try to be back early next week,” she said.
Post-op recovery always better with dogs! Thanks for all the well wishes and to my phenomenal surgeons. Blessed! pic.twitter.com/EAaGsHckwV
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) January 27, 2023
Fox News just got fantastic news about one of its flagship shows, “The Five.”
The show has become the most watched show in cable news, averaging a total audience of 3.332 million viewers for the week that ended January 22nd, Nielsen ratings showed, Forbes reported.
“After The Five, the highest-rated shows of the week were Tucker Carlson Tonight (3.086 million viewers), Jesse Watters Primetime (2.647 million viewers), Hannity (2.386 million viewers), and Special Report with Bret Baier (2.367 million viewers)—all airing on the Fox News Channel,” the report said.
Forbes reported: “In prime time, Fox News led the cable news networks with an average total audience of 1.996 million viewers—beating CNN and MSNBC combined. Overall, Fox had fully 92 of the 100 highest-rated cable news telecasts for the week. Among viewers 25-54, the demographic group most valued by advertisers, Tucker Carlson Tonight was first with 442,000 viewers, followed by The Five (374,000 viewers), Hannity (303,000 viewers), Jesse Watters Primetime (266,000 viewers) and Special Report with Bret Baier (256,000 viewers).”
And its morning show, “Fox & Friends” crushed its competitors with a total audience of 1.260 million viewers as the MSNBC show “Morning Joe” averaged 760,000 viewers and “CNN This Morning” had its worst week with 331,000 viewers.
And the Fox News show “Gutfeld” continued to crush its competition with 2.010 million viewers, ahead of the ABC show “Jimmy Kimmel Live” which averaged 1.819 million viewers and “The Tonight Show” on NBC hosted by Jimmy Fallon which averaged 1.278 million viewers.
His Fox News show “Gutfeld!” has ruled late-night television, averaging 2.1 million viewers through 2022, Nielsen Media Research showed, the Washington Times reported.
“The size of that viewing audience bests both NBC’s ‘The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon’ and ABC’s ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ and also consistently trumps such cable rivals as Comedy Central’s ‘The Daily Show’ and HBO’s ‘Last Week Tonight’ and ‘Real Time With Bill Maher,’” the report said.
Vox, known to be more of a liberal news organization, opined that “The biggest comedy show on late-night right now is not on ABC or NBC or CBS or Fox. It’s not on Comedy Central. It’s certainly not streaming. It’s on Fox News, and its name is ‘Gutfeld!’”
