Billy Bush joins Fox News Media as a contributor

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Set us as preferred Billy Bush, the veteran on-air host whose career was derailed by a crude off-camera conversation he had with President Trump in 2005, has signed on as a contributor to Fox News.Bush will comment on cultural issues across Fox News Media platforms.He made his first appearance Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “Jesse Watters Primetime.” “I’m excited to join Fox News Media and its loyal audience to share my perspective on the people, ideas and moments shaping today’s culture as well as the ones trying to undo it!” Bush, 54, said Tuesday in a statement.The longtime media personality is the nephew of former President George H.W.

Bush and cousin to the 43rd president George W.Bush.

He made his own mark on political history when audio of a 2005 conversation he had with Trump, then host of the NBC reality series “The Apprentice,” surfaced during the 2016 presidential campaign.In the tape, made while Bush was co-host of NBC’s syndicated entertainment news show “Access Hollywood,” Trump boasted about his ability to kiss women and grope their genitals with impunity because he is a celebrity.Bush is heard chuckling and encouraging Trump’s coarse chatter as the future president crudely talked about how he tried to have sex with Nancy O’Dell, then a co-host on “Access.” Bush is also seen on camera telling “Days of Our Lives” soap opera actress Arianne Zucker to embrace Trump just after the exchange.

Hollywood Inc.After joining the fourth hour of ‘Today’ as a co-host in 2019, she began recommending books in a monthly segment on the program, and in a short time has became a publishing taste maker.Trump’s presidential campaign survived the scandal as he went on to defeat Hillary Clinton that November.

Bush did not fare as well.Bush’s career was on the ascent at the time that the ta...