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Don Lemon sidestepped the issue of whether he wanted to be the first podcaster in space — among a list of other diva demands he made to launch his “Don Lemon Show” on Elon Musk’s X platform.
The Post reported this week that the former CNN anchor wanted SpaceX boss Elon Musk to launch him into orbit as the first-ever outer space podcaster, as part of his negotiations to join Musk’s social media platform, X.
Before Lemon was axed from his X gig by Musk, he’d put in the moonshot request to go to space — and also wanted a $5 million advance on top of an $8 million base salary, plus equity and veto power over the site’s news policies and its creative roster, The Post previously also reported.
When asked about the report in a new podcast interview with Mediaite editor in chief Aidan McLaughlin, Lemon, 58, brushed it all off as “nonsense” — but then admitted that it’s all part of negotiating a deal.
When McLaughlin told Lemon, “The New York Post has been reporting some stuff… that you made a bunch of requests from X. That you asked for a Cybertruck, an $8 million annual salary,” and other demands, Lemon replied, “Oh come on. That is nonsense. People negotiate all the time, but that’s, come on. It’s obviously a deflection.”
Lemon — who was axed from his X show after it debuted with his ill-fated Musk interview — deflected a bit himself by saying of The Post’s reports, “it has nothing to do with the interview, and I’m not going to fall into that. I don’t read the New York Post, but I do love their horoscopes. It’s great. I’m a Pisces, by the way, so you can read my horoscope to know what’s going on in my life.”
When he was asked earlier in the Mediaite podcast if he reads The Post, Lemon scoffed, “No, I don’t read the New York Post. Oh, I do read the New York Post. I lied. I read the horoscopes in the New York…
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