Leaving Fox News

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Longtime Fox News Reporter Rick Leventhal is leaving the network.

“Rick Leventhal’s work as a senior correspondent for Fox News Channel has been remarkable,” said a Fox News spokesperson. “From being one of the first reporters at the scene on 9/11, to covering the Iraq War, the War on Terror in Afghanistan, decades of major hurricanes, the death of Osama bin Laden, the Sandy Hook massacre, the Boston Marathon bombing, and a prisoner manhunt at Dannemora, he delivered vivid and powerful journalism that became a signature part of the network’s history.” Fow went onto say, “when Rick came to us and asked to cease reporting breaking news nationally and remain in Los Angeles where we relocated him at his request in 2020, we understood and respected his decision to spend more time with his wife building a new life in California. We wish him much luck and happiness in all of his future endeavors and thank him for his incredible contributions to Fox News Media over the last 24 years.”

Leventhal’s wife Kelly Dodd was one of the cast on Bravo’s “Real Housewives of Orange County” 

The network announced that she will also not return for the next season of the show.