Fox News mentioned it has “agreed to part ways” with Tucker Carlson, its fashionable and controversial host, lower than every week after settling a lawsuit over the community’s 2020 US election reporting.

The community mentioned in a press launch that the final programme of Tucker Carlson Tonight aired on Friday.

“We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor,” the press launch from the community mentioned.

Carlson turned Fox’s hottest character after changing Bill O’Reilly in Fox’s prime-time line-up in 2016.

He has additionally persistently drawn headlines for controversial protection, together with most just lately airing tapes from the January 6 Capitol rebellion to minimise the influence of the lethal assault.

There was no speedy clarification from Fox about why Carlson was leaving.

His title got here up throughout the just lately settled case with Dominion Voting Systems, primarily due to e mail and textual content messages that have been revealed as a part of the lawsuit.

In a few of them, Carlson privately criticised former president Donald Trump, saying he hated him passionately.

Just a few weeks in the past, Carlson devoted his whole present to an interview with Mr Trump.

Fox News Tonight will air in Carlson’s 8pm ET prime-time slot, hosted by a rotating array of community personalities, in the interim.