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The Fox News family has gotten some tough news about its popular primetime host Laura Ingraham.
The host of “The Ingraham Angle” has been sidelined after getting injured in a skiing accident and will need some time to recover.
She took to her Instagram and explained that she had been racing with her 14 year old son and it did not go how she planned.
“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
Last week Fox News informed its audience of more sad information when a senior Fox News executive who spent years with the network died last week from a heart attack at his home.
During a segment on his program “Special Report,” anchor Bret Baier paid tribute to Senior Vice President of News & Politics Alan Komissaroff, who tragically passed away at the age of 47. Baier said Komissaroff had been with Fox News since 1996, before its official launch. He leaves behind his wife Rachael, and his children Ben, 17, and Olivia, 13.
“This is an extremely difficult day for all of us who worked closely with Alan, and we are completely heartbroken,” said CEO Suzanne Scott.
“Alan was a leader and mentor throughout FOX News Media who was integral to our daily news operations and played an indispensable role in every election cycle. The recent midterm election coverage was easily one of the finest nights of special coverage he produced throughout his career. And he was the ultimate producer: breaking news, politics, special events — there was no steadier or more trusted colleague to be within the control room during the most consequential events of our time, and his incisiveness and passion for news made our work better,” Scott’s statement, along with network President Jay Wallace, added.
“He would joke that he was a guy from ‘real Brooklyn’ and rose through the ranks to become a writer, producer, showrunner, and eventually Senior Vice President of News & Politics, overseeing all political coverage,” Scott and Wallace added. “His sharp sense of humor and quick wit throughout his incredible career also led to the many lifelong friendships he made here.”
“Our deepest condolences are with them and Alan’s entire extended family as we collectively mourn the loss of a wonderful man,” Scott and Wallace wrote.
“Missing our Senior Vice President of News tonight, Alan Komissaroff. He has passed away at the young age of 47. Praying deeply that his wife Rachael and their beautiful children will feel overflowing love and support,” Fox News host Harris Faulkner added.
Missing our Senior Vice President of News tonight, Alan Komissaroff. He has passed away at the young age of 47.
Praying deeply that his wife Rachael and their beautiful children will feel overflowing love and support. pic.twitter.com/zJguGzB2x5— HARRISFAULKNER (@HARRISFAULKNER) January 21, 2023
Komissaroff spoke to Adweek in 2020 about how he approached Election Night coverage, Fox News reported.
“Election night is our Super Bowl, so we try to outdo ourselves every cycle,” he said.
The family has set up a GoFundMe has been set up for the family.
Scott, along with Wallace and Komissaroff, managed to build the most powerful cable news operation in the country over the span of the late senior VP’s career.
That came after a Fox News weatherman was attacked and brutally beaten by several teens on a New York City subway while traveling home from a bar after watching a football game on Saturday after he tried to stop them from harassing an older rider.
Meteorologist Adam Klotz, 37, posted videos of his injuries on Instagram, appearing bruised about the eyes and face while also saying that he had visible injuries to his rib cage. He explained that the group of about six or seven teens set upon him and pummeled him to the ground after he implored them to stop bothering an older man, the New York Post reported.
Klotz said he was riding the train after watching the NFL’s New York Giants take a beating from the Philadelphia Eagles in Saturday night’s divisional playoff game when he saw “this older gentleman was being hassled by this group of seven or eight teens.”
“I was like, ‘Yo, guys, cut that out.’ And they decided, ‘All right, if he’s not going to get it, you’re going to get it.’ And boy did they give it to me,” Klotz explained. “They had me on the ground. My ribs are all bruised up, too. They got their hits in.”
