Fox News Anchor Julie Banderas Spills Tea on Male Former Colleague’s Misogyny

Fox News anchor Julie Banderas on Friday revealed that one of her former male co-workers confided in her that he’d never “marry a fat girl” because he wanted only “hot kids.”

During Friday’s broadcast of Fox’s midday female-centric panel show Outnumbered, one segment focused on the backlash sparked by a podcast host claiming he’d leave his wife if she didn’t immediately get back into shape after childbirth.

“If my wife lets herself go after I have kids with her, I’m going to tell her, once: ‘If you don’t get your shit together,” Anthony Casasanta of the No Filter podcast exclaimed this week. “If you can’t do that, I’m out!”

After her colleagues condemned Casasanta’s body-shaming, Banderas, who has been with the network since 2005, spilled some tea on an unnamed former co-worker who allegedly made similar remarks to her.

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“So I had a former male colleague, I won’t name his name because then he would be ruined forever, but guys tend to open up to me for some reason—they think I’m like a dude,” she began. “He told me that he’d only marry someone who was hot because he wants to have hot kids. He wouldn’t marry a fat girl—I’m not kidding, this actually came out of the mouth of a man to me.”

“Wow,” interjected her co-host Kayleigh McEnany, formerly the press secretary for one Donald J. Trump. She later called the unnamed man’s remarks “gross” and “shallow.”

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“Because he wouldn’t want to have fat children,” Banderas concluded. “There are a lot of idiots out there!”

The longtime Fox News host did not give any further clues as to which former colleague made the comment, but, of course, the network has a long history of men behaving in an overtly sexist manner, both on-air and behind the scenes.