Dianna Russini's Attempted Comeback Doesn't Go Well

This Diana Rossini, who you know I don't really cover sports, but I followed this scandal because it was very interesting. It was somebody who's kind of in our profession. She's a journalist, but sports, who was having an extramarital affair, allegedly, with the coach of first the Tennessee Titans, and then he moved on to the Patriots, Mike Vrabel. And okay, that's fine. I mean, I'm not really interested in people's extramarital affairs, whatever. People get divorced. They get married. It's none of my business. However, when you are a reporter sleeping with the source, it is my business. It's literally my business. And I have a right to object, and I did, as did most of the journalists who looked at this alleged conduct, because she wouldn't admit it. She didn't just say, okay, you caught me. I did something dumb. I'm not in the happiest marriage. I'm going to take care of it. And beyond that, it's none of your business, which I think we would have accepted. We would have accepted and said, okay, got it. You know. Whatever. Moving on. She lied. She told us not to believe our lying eyes. We all know that we don't treat sources like this. I can go on a limb and say right now, Sir Abhinashan, you have never held a source in this way that we are seeing on camera, nor interlaced your fingers with her right before going in the hot tub with her and being seen on the rooftop of the villa that costs an exorbitant amount dancing, dancing in the evening, you know, twinkling light hour. We all know what went down. But these two insulted our intelligence by denying it. She withdrew from the New York Times' investigation of it, where she worked, an offshoot of the Times called The Athletic. She said, I'm leaving in a huff because I won't be subjected to this anymore, these lies. So she tried to stave off the investigation. And now she's relaunched with this puff piece in People magazine. And espousing like her desire to be an example to women and how, you know, you can, you can just pick yourself up and dust yourself off and overcoming adversity. That's what she's an example of. Are you got to be kidding me? First of all, this happened six months ago. All right. You're still in the crisis. She's still with the husband who seems very henpecked. I mean, it's very sad to me that they're together. Not that I say you can never get past an affair. Fair. I've known couples who have done it. However. There's a question about whether her baby is actually Mike Rabels and so on. Like, this is just so sordid. And now she wants us to see her as like some sort of example of female empowerment. So she launches this show. And I said when we did the story the other day, I had never heard of this organization with whom she was relaunching her show. It was like B-E-T-U-S. Well, it's a betting site. It's a betting site out of Curacao. And... Apparently you can't even like, you can, you can spend your money there, but you can't actually make money off of them. It's sketchy as hell. And, uh, it didn't go well when she tried to launch the show. She had glitching. No one could get on. She claimed it was because she was so overwhelmed with the number of people logging on challenge challenge. Um, and she started the note as, or started the show as follows. But first, a personal note. You know, over the last few months, I have had a lot of time to think about my life and my priorities and the person I want to be moving forward and being home in New Jersey with my husband and our two little boys and being truly present. It gave me so much perspective that I didn't even know I needed. I've also had a lot of long conversations with people all around football. You know, some were about the game and others were just about life. To the people who picked up the phone and checked in and offered both encouragement and honest advice from the bottom of my heart. Thank you. Those conversations helped me find my way back to the work I love and back to myself right here hosting the show. So anyone who knows me knows I have always been obsessed with the NFL, but maybe because I wasn't around it so much the last few months, my passion for covering this league has never been stronger. I'm so grateful, so grateful for this chance to do it again. Your passion for the league. I mean, maybe some word choice revision is in order here. I'll give you one take from Jason Whitlock, the great Jason Whitlock, host of Fearless on Tuesday, SOT 22. Russini reemerges with Bill Parcells. Bill Parcells, two-time Super Bowl winning coach, Hall of Famer, 83 years old. No disrespect to Bill Parcells, but Rossini should have accepted her cancellation and stayed home with her two kids. You don't go from Mike Vrabel's bottom chick to in-hospice booty call for Bill Parcells. You don't go from a 50-year-old heartthrob to Vrabel to an old can of big tuna. Publicly, nobody will go on camera with Diana Rossini. Privately, everybody wants to keep all possibilities in play. Rossini has avoided cancellation. She's attractive enough, thin enough to remain in the game. Looks will get you a second act, but this one comes with a bingo night, early bird specials, and a seniors discount. It's either this, or she can join Joy Taylor on Only Cans. Is that an actual site, OnlyFans, as opposed to OnlyPants? Okay, no, it's not. Okay. Okay. What do you make of it? I'll start with you on that one, Sohrab. The attempt to come back as the heroine. Who's overcome all the adversity without acknowledging any of the bad behavior or even sticking around for the Times' investigation and not one word of true contrition. I just have one line and it comes from the great veteran New York Times executive editor, Abe Rosenthal, who faced such a situation with a reporter. And he said famously, infamously, I don't care if you **** the elephants, but if you do, you can't cover the circus. And I just think that Mr. Rossini's time covering the circus is over. Yes. Yes. There can be no redemption arc, Sean, without the acknowledgement of what you've done. How is she a real person? I mean, how is that statement real? I thought someone was doing a bit. Oh, I've had all these conversations. Really, were they in bed? Were they on pillows with these pillow talk conversations? Were you clothed during these conversations? It's funny to me to watch the transformation of sports reporting because it's always been the place where like people who couldn't hack it and other reporting went like people who are really you can tell watching sports reporting how many people actually hate sports. It's weird in that it attracts people who hate sports, oddly, but we've seen political journalism now morph into sports journalism, and I feel like the coup de grace there is Is a reporter sleeping with sources because that's been rampant in political circles for years? I mean, think of the New York Times reporter. Ali Watkins, who is sleeping with a Senate staffer, James Wolfe, and getting whispered sweet nothings and also completely classified FISA warrants given to her. I think she might be at NBC News now. Who knows? You had Biden staffers in the White House at the very top sleeping with reporters. This has happened forever in political reporting. So I just it's kind of sad to see it end up in sports reporting. Thanks for watching this clip. If you're new here, subscribe. We got a whole lot more goodness where that came from. Would love to hear your feedback. You can email me too, Megyn, M-E-G-Y-N at megynkelly.com, or just leave a comment below. 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