Ex-Trump staffer Hope Hicks to join Megyn Kelly's media company as COO
Hope Hicks, a former Trump staffer, is set to join ex-Fox News host Megyn Kelly for a new media venture.
Megyn Kelly is tapping a well-known ex-Trump official for her growing media business.
Kelly, 54, once a mainstay on cable news, has since launched her own podcast and YouTube show, following a tumultuous exit from the traditional format. Now she's creating her own brand with Devil May Care Media, which will serve as home to the "Megyn Kelly Show" and others, and to do it, she's bringing on Hope Hicks.
Kelly first shared the news with the New York Post, later confirming it with a post on X.
Hicks, 36, who served as communications director during President Donald Trump's first term and later as an executive at Fox Corp., will take on the role of chief operating officer, helping grow the business in an ever-evolving media landscape.
"Hope Hicks is exactly the kind of woman I want running my company with me – strong, smart, strategic and the embodiment of class and poise," Kelly said in a statement to the Post. "She's at the top of a growing media conglomerate and there's no limit to where she can take it; my best-in-the-business staff and I are thrilled to have her on board."
Hicks, who has been working in corporate consulting since her exit from the White House, shared in Kelly's excitement over the partnership.
"Megyn has used her talent, integrity, and unparalleled credibility to create content unlike anything else available today," Hicks told The Post. "I am incredibly humbled and thrilled to be joining Megyn and her team in continuing to build what is undoubtedly a flourishing business."
Paste BN has reached out to Devil May Care Media for comment.
Once one of Trump's closest advisors, Hicks began working in the White House in 2017 and filled various roles intermittently before exiting the administration permanently following his loss in the 2020 presidential election and the subsequent campaign to overturn the election results.
Now she is joining forces with Kelly, an intermittent subject of Trump's ire, who in recent years generated a massive audience outside of traditional media with her daily news podcast and commentary show.
A time-honored conservative commentator, Kelly left Fox News in 2017 after more than a decade, moving to NBC, much to the chagrin of liberal viewers, and exiting that network just a year later following controversial on-air remarks she made defending the use of blackface.
She has now proved a case-study for new media, however, bringing her personal brand and audience with her to launch a popular podcast and a burgeoning conservative media company.