Female CNN staff furious Allison Gollust still has a job after Jeff Zucker affair

Feminine workers at CNN are livid that chief spokesperson Allison Gollust is holding her job after “mendacity” about her affair with newly resigned CEO Jeff Zucker “for years,” sources instructed The Submit. 

“Why is she allowed to maintain her job?” a CNN insider railed. 

“CNN is meant to be a clear information community. How does she get away with mendacity about their affair for thus lengthy?” 

Early Wednesday, Zucker despatched a memo to colleagues asserting he’d be retiring after his relationship with Gollust got here to gentle throughout CNN’s probe into Chris Cuomo. He known as the connection “consensual” and instructed employees that he wished he’d disclosed it sooner. 

Gollust launched an announcement shortly after saying that she and Zucker had been skilled colleagues for over 20 years however their relationship “modified throughout COVID.” 

Jeff Zucker and Allison Gollust sitting subsequent to one another at a Billy Joel live performance at Madison Sq. Backyard.

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One insider known as the feedback “a complete lie.” 

“They’ve been collectively for years,” the supply dished. 

“And he or she’s nonetheless mendacity about it at present — the assertion she made that ‘lately our relationship modified throughout COVID’ is a complete lie.”