Geraldo Rivera, former Fox News correspondent, will no longer be one of “The Five.”

Rivera announced this on Wednesday Twitter feed those are

last

appearance on the daily round

–

table program, which has the largest audience

everything of

cable news, will be

June 30th

.

“It’s been a great run and I appreciate being given the chance,”

Geraldo wrote. “

Being the odd one out isn’t always easy. For the time being I am still a correspondent at Large.”

Rivera

has

served as one of the alternating Liberal presenters on the program, along with commentator Jessica Tarlov and former

Congressman

US Rep. Harold Ford, since Jan. 2022.

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to take

S

is sparring

save with

the four conservative regulars

:

Jeanine Pirro, Jesse Watters, Dana Perino and Greg Gutfeld.

Rivera seemed to have a strained relationship with Gutfeld

and had

suggested on Twitter that the co-host was the reason he showed up less often on “The Five”. The two have had heated exchanges

on the performance

,

What’s

typically a light-hearted conversation about the issues of the day.

Tarlov has emerged as a star on the program. She’s the most outspoken liberal on the network, unafraid to forcefully push back on her co-hosts.

Rivera, who turns 80 next month, had to travel to New York from his home in Ohio for his work on “The Five.”

Rivera’s departure is likely part of the cost-cutting measures taken across the network over the past month. A Fox News representative did not return a request for comment.

Rivera has been with Fox News since 2001,

if he participates

as correspondent. He also hosted his own Saturday night program ‘Geraldo At Large’.

Rivera first emerged in the early 1970s as a reckless local news correspondent at WABC-TV in New York. His exhibits reveal horrific conditions at a Staten Island facility that houses developmentally disabled children and adults known as

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, catapulted him to a role at ABC News. The story heralded major changes in the country’s approach to healthcare

mentally limited

people

with an intellectual disability

.

Rivera also spearheaded one of the wildest debacles in TV history in 1986 when he did a live special where he opened mobster Al Capone’s safe in the basement of a Chicago hotel. The safe was empty. But the event, considered an early experiment in reality TV, attracted a huge audience, and Rivera went on to host a syndicated show “Geraldo,” which ran for 11 years.

Rivera was friends with Fox News founder Roger Ailes, who gave the journalist a nightly talk show on CNBC that ran from 1994 to 2001. Ailes then brought Rivera to Fox News, which has been his TV home ever since.