Kathy Griffin won’t be spending her New Year’s Eve with Anderson Cooper.
The comedian was fired by CNN — a day after a gory photo of her holding a blood-stained, beheaded President Trump mask outraged the masses.
“CNN has terminated our agreement with Kathy Griffin to appear on our New Year's Eve program,” the network's communications team announced Wednesday in a tweet.
Griffin had provided New Year’s Eve coverage alongside Cooper since 2007.
The shocking picture, which shows a stone-faced Griffin holding the bloodied Trump replica by the hair, left both sides of the political spectrum fuming after it surfaced online Tuesday. Griffin apologized hours after she proudly tweeted the image out.
“I sincerely apologize,” Griffin said in a video posted Tuesday night. “I am just now seeing the reaction of these images. I’m a comic. I crossed the line. I move the line, then I cross it. I went way too far. The image is too disturbing. I understand how it offends people. It wasn’t funny. I get it.”
A spokesperson for CNN said Tuesday that the network "found what she did disgusting and offensive.”
Cooper was similarly outraged.
"For the record, I am appalled by the photo shoot Kathy Griffin took part in," he tweeted. "It is clearly disgusting and completely inappropriate."
Hours before Griffin issued her public apology, the picture's photographer Tyler Shields defended the jarring image as "art" to the Daily News.
But many others didn't see it that way — including Trump himself.
"Kathy Griffin should be ashamed of herself," the President tweeted. "My children, especially my 11 year old son, Barron, are having a hard time with this. Sick!"
First Lady Melania Trump condemned the image as well, referring to it as "disturbing."
"When you consider some of the atrocities happening in the world today, a photo opportunity like this is simply wrong and makes you wonder about the mental health of the person who did it," she said in a statement.
And Chelsea Clinton called the picture "vile and wrong" in a tweet.
Even the United States Secret Service weighed in on Tuesday shortly after social media was flooded with backlash over the picture.
“On it!” the agency tweeted. “@SecretService . . . monitors open source reporting & social media to evaluate threats. Threats made against @SecretService protectees receive the highest priority of all of our investigations.”
CNN isn't the only corporation to distance itself from Griffin. Squatty Potty announced it was pulling its ads featuring Griffin in response.
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The comedian was fired by CNN — a day after a gory photo of her holding a blood-stained, beheaded President Trump mask outraged the masses.
“CNN has terminated our agreement with Kathy Griffin to appear on our New Year's Eve program,” the network's communications team announced Wednesday in a tweet.
Griffin had provided New Year’s Eve coverage alongside Cooper since 2007.
The shocking picture, which shows a stone-faced Griffin holding the bloodied Trump replica by the hair, left both sides of the political spectrum fuming after it surfaced online Tuesday. Griffin apologized hours after she proudly tweeted the image out.
“I sincerely apologize,” Griffin said in a video posted Tuesday night. “I am just now seeing the reaction of these images. I’m a comic. I crossed the line. I move the line, then I cross it. I went way too far. The image is too disturbing. I understand how it offends people. It wasn’t funny. I get it.”
A spokesperson for CNN said Tuesday that the network "found what she did disgusting and offensive.”
Cooper was similarly outraged.
"For the record, I am appalled by the photo shoot Kathy Griffin took part in," he tweeted. "It is clearly disgusting and completely inappropriate."
Hours before Griffin issued her public apology, the picture's photographer Tyler Shields defended the jarring image as "art" to the Daily News.
But many others didn't see it that way — including Trump himself.
"Kathy Griffin should be ashamed of herself," the President tweeted. "My children, especially my 11 year old son, Barron, are having a hard time with this. Sick!"
First Lady Melania Trump condemned the image as well, referring to it as "disturbing."
"When you consider some of the atrocities happening in the world today, a photo opportunity like this is simply wrong and makes you wonder about the mental health of the person who did it," she said in a statement.
And Chelsea Clinton called the picture "vile and wrong" in a tweet.
Even the United States Secret Service weighed in on Tuesday shortly after social media was flooded with backlash over the picture.
“On it!” the agency tweeted. “@SecretService . . . monitors open source reporting & social media to evaluate threats. Threats made against @SecretService protectees receive the highest priority of all of our investigations.”
CNN isn't the only corporation to distance itself from Griffin. Squatty Potty announced it was pulling its ads featuring Griffin in response.
read more.
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