Don Lemon wants you to know his love with Chris Cuomo was real and don't you forget it.
Don Lemon denies ex-CNN colleague Chris Cuomo’s claim that their ‘bromance’ was fake https://t.co/TTDIkmK40f pic.twitter.com/Z0rN4aLDl2
— New York Post (@nypost) September 9, 2025
Don Lemon is denying ex-CNN colleague Chris Cuomo’s claims that a yearslong “bromance” that the pair portrayed during the handoff between their two primetime slots was fake.
Lemon — who was fired from the network in 2023 after a series of on-air gaffes and complaints about his off-air conduct with his peers — denied Cuomo’s recent dish that their then-boss Jeff Zucker had asked Cuomo to keep him in check by playing up a friendship for viewers.
Lemon generated headlines on Monday after a “man-on-the-street” podcast segment went off the rails when a passerby in Manhattan told him that he was “full of s–t” and a “f–king moron.” During their heyday at CNN, Cuomo and Lemon were known for their on-air banter as the former, whose one-hour talk show ended at around 9 p.m. ET, “handed off” to the latter in a segment that grew popular with the network’s viewers.
But Cuomo threw cold water on the on-air relationship, telling Patrick Bet David in a podcast interview earlier this year that Zucker ordered him to stick around after his primetime slot “to help mitigate whatever’s going to come out of [Lemon’s] mouth.”
Lemon pushed back on the claim.
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Chris has been more sane of late, so maybe he is trying to distance himself from his old life.
Don has the tapes. Do not, I repeat, DO NOT release the tapes.
— Butthurt (@Butthurt106) September 9, 2025
No one wants that.
Who stages a fake bromance for cable news? Is there an Emmy for that performance? 💩
— Johnny.hl⚡ (@JohnneyWeb3) September 9, 2025
Apparently, people who want to keep their jobs.
Once a bad lemon, always a bad lemon. He needs to just go away, as we don’t care about this loser!
— Reid Nichols (@ReidN55) September 9, 2025
Lemon really should go away.
Like everything else on CNN. Fake As F***
— Linda (@HonestAlways2) September 9, 2025
Fair point.
The handoffs between the two were vomit inducing
— egg and spoon (@Stephen87734985) September 9, 2025
It really was. No big loss to the public.
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