Bill O'Reilly Talks Getting Fired, His Potential Return to TV, Donald Trump

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The Hollywood Reporter’s Marisa Guthrie spoke to former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly to discuss his firing amidst claims of sexual harassment, President Trump’s missteps and a possible TV return.

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00:00Bill O'Reilly has entered THR's no-spin zone. The Hollywood Reporter's Marissa Guthrie spoke

00:07to the former Fox News host to discuss his firing amidst claims of sexual harassment,

00:12President Trump's missteps and a possible TV return. The ex-host of The O'Reilly Factor was

00:17pursued publicly by One America News, but by June the head of the company had tweeted that he was

00:22pulling his offer. O'Reilly told Guthrie that whilst he has had offers to return to TV and

00:27there are some interesting projects in development, he has yet to decide what he is going to do.

00:46The conversation turned inevitably to President Donald Trump. When asked about the president's

00:51statements after the rallies in Charlottesville, in which Trump blamed the violence on both sides,

00:56O'Reilly replied,

01:18O'Reilly also addressed Trump's loyalty to him during his final weeks at Fox News, saying,

01:23He was a stand-up guy. He's very loyal to his friends. I think he understands that no one was

01:29mistreated on my watch because that's the truth. He knows the politics of it because he has been in

01:34the same circumstance, accused, and the press will take any allegation and make it a conviction.

01:40And while O'Reilly refused to comment specifically about the sexual harassment claims against him

01:44that surfaced in April, he did speak about what really bothered him when it came to his 20-year

01:49career at Fox News ending abruptly.

01:51It was purely a business decision, O'Reilly told Guthrie. But the way it was done,

01:55I'm over in Rome on vacation. My legal team was caught by surprise because we had an amazing

02:00amount of exculpatory stuff that we had presented. And it just, it was sad. That's the word, sad.

02:06To read Marissa Guthrie's full interview with Bill O'Reilly, head to THR.com and tell us what you think

02:11about his possible return to TV and thoughts on Trump in the comments section.

02:15For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Lyndsey Rodrigues.

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