Since being abruptly dismissed from CNN for assisting his brother in his explosive sexual harassment case, he has been keeping a low profile.
However, Chris Cuomo, 51, has re-entered the public eye with a brazen Instagram photo exposing his skin and displaying his tattoos.
The former TV personality even teased: “Something’s coming…Summer ’22,” hinting to a potential comeback.
In December 2021, he was fired from the Atlanta-based cable news network after a video deposition surfaced in which he admitted to planning with his brother, the former governor of New York Andrew Cuomo, how to resist pressure to step down in the wake of allegations of inappropriate and sexually charged behavior made by nearly a dozen women.
Following the abrupt termination of his lucrative contract with the leading satellite radio network SiriusXM, HarperCollins said that they would no longer publish his reflections on the Trump administration and the pandemic response, which they had termed “Deep Denial.”
Chris Cuomo was tarnished with his own charge by a former boss, Shelly Ross, who wrote an opinion piece for the New York Times with the title “Chris Cuomo Sexually Harassed Me.” I’m hoping he’ll use his influence to effect change.
The tarnished broadcaster can be seen wearing sunglasses in every shot of the black and white Instagram slideshow, occasionally going naked, baring his teeth in the park, flexing his biceps, or sucking on a large cigar.
His spokesperson Steven Goldberg steadfastly declined to specify what that’something’ might be.
His return to public life doesn’t mark the first time.
He published a new Instagram video on July 2 that was shot in Ukraine and featured an interview with a Ukrainian soldier. Cuomo boasts about how close they almost got into a physical altercation and says in the post that he is there with “his brother Sean Penn.”
We were close to where the shelling was occurring, so I’ll show you the risk next, he wrote. In the war-torn nation, Cuomo also shared a selfie and blasted out automobiles and structures.
The Yale University graduate and Fordham Law alum was always seen as the cerebral antithesis of his brother’s violent and authoritarian behavior.
Throughout his career, Cuomo worked for practically every news organization, including Fox News, CNBC, MSNBC, ABC, and CNN. Finally, with the help of his close friend and supervisor Jeff Zucker, who was also dismissed for breaking the company’s dating policy, Cuomo was given his own program.
Cuomo sued the network for $125 million after losing the $6 million-per-year job he had been running interference for his brother.
‘Cuomo has had his journalistic integrity unjustifiably smeared, making it difficult if not impossible for Cuomo to find similar work in the future and damaging him in amounts exceeding $125 million, which includes not only the remaining salary owed under the Agreement, but future wages lost as a result of CNN’s efforts to destroy his reputation in violation of the Agreement,’ according to the suit.
It’s unclear what he’s implying will happen this summer given that those kinds of positions have been ruled out.