Fox News financial and political commentator, Eric Bolling is being accused of sending lewd photographs of male genitalia to his female coworkers.
The Huffington Post reports that the 54-year-old has been allegedly sending explicit photographs to two unnamed colleagues at Fox Business and one unnamed at Fox News. All recipients claim they were texts sent by Bolling because the phone number is one they recognized from work-related interactions.
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While one of the recipients told The Huffington Post that she asked him “to never send those types of photos” to her again, he did not respond nor confirm he would. Further, roughly a dozen employees from Fox News told the publication that they’d “either seen the photos” or “had heard about them.”
A Fox News spokesperson told The Huffington Post that they were “just informed of this” and “plan to investigate the matter.”
Bolling’s lawyer also released a statement that read the Fox News personality “recalls no such inappropriate communications,” add that he did not believe to even send such messages. Via his attorney, Bolling said he “vigorously pursue” legal remedies for any false or defamatory accusations made. “
While the network has been hit with several accusations as of recent with sexual harassment and assault, especially with host, Gretchen Carlson filing a sexual harassment lawsuit against the late Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes, this isn’t Bolling’s first time with such scandal either.
In 2014, while on the panel show, The Five, where guests discussed the first woman fighter pilot from United Arab Emirates leading the bombing of the Islamic State, Bolling asked on air if it was more appropriate to say “boobs on the ground” instead of “boots on the ground.”
[UPDATE: Aug. 5, 4:50 p.m. EST] In an update from the network on Saturday, a spokesperson announced that “Eric Bolling has been suspended pending the results of an investigation, which is currently underway.”
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