Fox News host Laura Ingraham missed her 7 p.m. show The Ingraham Angle on Tuesday after her United Airlines flight was delayed and redirected to Austin, Texas.
An hour before her show was due to start, Ingraham announced on social media that she had been stuck on her post-Memorial Day flight for seven-and-a-half hours and that she would not be able to make her show.
“Update: We have been on @united flight from DC to Houston for 7.5 hours now. Diverted to Austin,” Ingraham wrote. “Forced to miss the show on this huge news night. Tune in for @judgejeanine.”
United Airlines responded to Ingraham’s post apologizing for the delay.
Fox News confirmed to Mediaite that Ingraham was scheduled to host the show from Houston prior to her unforeseen redirection to Austin, about 160 miles away.
The Five co-host Jeanine Pirro filled in for Ingraham on short notice, hosting the show from New York with a focus on former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial.
However, Ingraham did call into her own show around 30 minutes in.
“I want to bring in Laura Ingraham, host of the Ingraham Angle. She joins me now on the phone,” said Pirro during a discussion about Trump’s trial. “Hello, Laura. I hear you’re at an airport or on a plane somewhere.”
Ingraham replied, “Eight hours, friendly skies of United Airlines. It wasn’t so friendly today, but that’s alright. Everybody was nice and patient. I’m so sorry not to be on tonight, it was just literally no way I could get to a studio in time given what happened on the airline with the weather and mechanical problems, but I followed everything that was happening today and continues to happen in Manhattan.”
Ingraham then proceeded to condemn “the weaponization of the judicial system” in New York against Trump.
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