Megyn Kelly has denied having a top secret screen-test at CBS News ahead of a rumored network TV comeback. Veteran media reporter Bernard Goldberg made the astonishing allegation in a podcast for his Substack platform, No BS Zone.

He abruptly told co-host John Daly ‘By the way, here’s something I’m revealing that nobody knows: a certain person whose name – I’ll tell you the name in a second – a certain famous person in the media was at CBS News the other day, doing what I’m told was a screen test. ‘Meaning, seeing how it works on camera.’

Daly guessed former Fox News star Bill O’Reilly. But Goldberg – who worked at the Eye Network for twenty-eight years – enlightened him, saying: ‘No, I would’ve guessed that too. ‘No, Megyn Kelly. Megyn Kelly was at CBS News the other day. You heard it here, you’re not going to hear it anyplace else.’

Mediaite then reported on Goldberg’s claims, earning a response from Kelly herself within minutes. ‘Literally not one word of this is true. Was not at cbs, did not have a screen test, am not going to cbs, and have ZERO desire to leave what I am doing now and join the sinking ship of broadcast news,’ she wrote on X.

The Daily Mail has reached out to Kelly for comment. Any return to network TV would be a victory for the former legacy media journalist, who on Monday celebrated five years of her eponymous SiriusXM show.

She was forced out of NBC News in 2019 over an on-air defense of blackface, after being poached by the Peacock network from Fox News. She previously hosted a show on the station called The Kelly File. It aired between 2004 and 2017.

Since her exit from NBC – with a rumored $69 million payout – Kelly has made a huge success of her podcast, The Megyn Kelly Show. It launched as an audio-only podcast in September 2020. Today, it is a top-rated program on both Apple and Spotify. The show boasts millions more followers on Instagram, TikTok, and X.

Just a few weeks ago, Kelly tapped former top Trump aide Hope Hicks to head operations of the podcasting company she started, Devil May Care Media. She also rolled out her own morning news show, the ‘AM Update with Megyn Kelly’, this past February.

Earlier this month, she announced her first-ever nationwide tour, ‘Megyn Kelly LIVE’, which kicks off next month. She refused to call it off following the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Since going independent, she has become an outspoken supporter of President Donald Trump. She regularly offers conservative friendly takes on thorny culture wars topics.

Like many legacy outlets, CBS News has been met with accusations of bias from both viewers and the administration. But new owner David Ellison seems to set to redress that balance. He is said to be on the verge of buying journalist Bari Weiss’s The Free Press news website and installing herself as a senior executive at CBS News.

Weiss spectacularly resigned from The New York Times in 2021 after claiming the paper had become a nest of woke vipers who were skewing its coverage on major issues to the left. While her views are more centrist than Kelly’s, Weiss has also made a huge success of her independent outlet by unflinchingly tackling topics including DEI and transgenderism.