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SEVERAL broadcasters’ morning show tenures have unceremoniously ended with abrupt firings.

It’s not uncommon for a network to part ways with a news anchor, but the circumstances surrounding the firing and the events leading up to it can in itself be headline-worthy.Tamron Hall at the Rob Thomas concert on NBC’s Today at Rockefeller Plaza on August 24, 2015, in New York CityAnn Curry speaks onstage at the Chasing The Cure panel at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on July 24, 2019, in Beverly Hills

While some television journalists have rebounded to other shows or into different broadcasting paths, others have had their careers come to a screeching halt due to the reasons behind their dismissal.

From workplace affairs to controversial on-air remarks, here are the messiest morning show firings.

TAMRON HALL

Tamron Hall, 53, worked as a national news correspondent for NBC News, a daytime anchor for MSNBC, and hosted MSNBC Live with Tamron Hall and co-hosted Today’s Take, the third hour of Today with Al Roker.

On February 24, 2014, Hall premiered as co-anchor of Today’s Take, the third hour of Today with Roker, Natalie Morales, and Willie Geist, becoming the first black woman to co-anchor Today.

In February 2017, Hall was in the process of renegotiating her contract with NBC when reports surfaced that her and Al’s morning show slot would be filled by Megyn Kelly following the journalist’s tenure at Fox.

“I go into work one day. I left fired. ‘Demoted’ I guess is what they called it. I called it fired,” Hall told Entertainment Tonight in September 2019.

Television host and author Tamron Hall pictured talking about her latest book at the 2024 National Book Festival on August 24, 2024, in Washington, DCHall opted out of her contract and decided to leave NBC rather than take a lesser role and on February 1, 2017, NBC News and Hall released a joint statement confirming Hall’s decision to depart from NBC and MSNBC.

“The last 10 years have been beyond anything I could have imagined and I’m grateful,” Hall said at the time of the announcement.

She continued, “To all my great colleagues, I will miss you and I will be rooting for you.”

Hall currently hosts The Tamron Hall Show, a talk show produced and distributed by Disney Entertainment Distribution.

It debuted on September 9, 2019, in first-run syndication on ABC Owned Television Stations and local stations across the United States and Canada.

ANN CURRY

Ann Curry, 67, joined NBC News in 1990, first as the NBC News Chicago correspondent and then as the anchor of NBC News at Sunrise from 1991 to 1996.

She served as a substitute news anchor for Matt Lauer, 66, from 1994 to 1997 at Today before serving as a news anchor at The Today Show, becoming the program’s second-longest serving news anchor, behind longtime host, Frank Blair, from 1997 to 2011.

Curry was named co-anchor of Dateline NBC with Stone Phillips, 69, and remained the primary anchor when Phillips left on July 2, 2007.

In June 2012, Curry became the national and international correspondent anchor for NBC News and the anchor at large for the Today Show.

Not long after, reports surfaced that Curry would be replaced as Today’s co-host.

Curry hired attorney Robert Barnett to represent her in her discussions with NBC but on June 28, Curry announced in an emotional broadcast on the show that she was leaving Today.

The ordeal was rumored to have been caused, in part, by a lack of chemistry between herself and her co-host, Lauer.

Ann Curry pictured at the Build Series to discuss the medical series Chasing the Cure on July 30, 2019, in New York City