Legacy media anchor Don Lemon won’t appear on “CNN This Morning” on Monday after saying that 51-year-old Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley wasn’t “in her prime” following her 2024 White House bid last week.

Lemon had initially appeared on the schedule to anchor the show with co-hosts Poppy Harlow and Kaitlan Collins. However, according to a copy of the CNN anchor schedule obtained and reviewed by Confider, officials at the network appear to have benched Lemon. Instead, they will have Sara Snider anchoring with Harlow in New York and Collins in Poland.

A source familiar with the matter told the news outlet that Lemon’s future on the show is being discussed in “ongoing conversations.”

“He is a constant distraction,” the source told Confider.

A CNN spokesperson denied the reporting to Mediaite, saying Lemon was “taking the holiday” due to paparazzi harassment — although they did not specifically deny he would be out on Monday.

“He is taking the holiday. He’s been chased by paparazzi all weekend,” the spokesperson said. “He’s been under attack. He’s not ready to go back on air.”

During the CNN morning show on Thursday, Lemon said, “Nikki Haley isn’t in her prime. Sorry, when a woman is in their prime [is] in [her] 20s and 30s and maybe 40s.”

Lemon’s co-host Poppy Harlow knew the comment would create a stir and asked him to clarify. “What are you talking — Wait … prime for what?”

“That’s not according to me,” Lemon responded. “It depends. It’s just like, prime. If you look it up,” Lemon added. “If you Google when is a woman in her prime, it’ll say 20s, 30s, 40s.”

The CNN anchor later tweeted that his comments about Haley were “inartful and irrelevant.”

“The reference I made to a woman’s ‘prime’ this morning was inartful and irrelevant, as colleagues and loved ones have pointed out, and I regret it,” Lemon’s tweet read. “A woman’s age doesn’t define her either personally or professionally. I have countless women in my life who prove that every day.”

Haley responded to the CNN anchor’s tweet.

“To be clear, I am NOT calling for competency tests for Sexist middle-aged CNN anchors; only for people who make our laws and are 75+,” Haley tweeted.

To be clear, I am NOT calling for competency tests for Sexist middle-aged CNN anchors; only for people who make our laws and are 75+. https://t.co/wvUNCcNdVt

— Nikki Haley (@NikkiHaley) February 16, 2023

In another tweet with a clip of the video segment, Haley said, “It’s always the liberals who are the most sexist.”

Liberals can't stand the idea of having competency tests for older politicians to make sure they can do the job.

BTW it's always the liberals who are the most sexist. pic.twitter.com/PzpniQFLff

— Nikki Haley (@NikkiHaley) February 16, 2023

CNN CEO Chris Licht reportedly said during an editorial call on Friday morning that Lemon’s comments about Haley “disappointed” him.

“His remarks were upsetting, unacceptable, and unfair to his co-hosts, and ultimately a huge distraction to the great work of this organization,” Licht said to his staffers, according to a readout of the call obtained by Confider.

Lemon offered an apology on the same call.

“I’m sorry,” Lemon said. I didn’t mean to hurt anyone. I did not mean to offend anyone.”

DailyMail.com reported last week that inside sources described Lemon as “rude, self-righteous and clearly sexist” to the news outlet, adding that “his apology meant nothing.”

“Don has been skating on thin ice for so long, and many wanted him fired in December when he freaked out on Kaitlin Collins for no reason,” the sources said. “She was in tears, and it was so inappropriate.”

Lemon reportedly left Collins “rattled” on the set of “This Morning” on December 8 after he allegedly blew up at her once the show was over because she had interrupted him on air.

Confider reported that Lemon’s agent Jay Sures, also the Vice Chairman of United Talent Agency, hung up on the outlet when staff reached out to ask why Lemon would not be appearing on “This Morning” on Monday.

“I am now blocking your number,” Sures said in a follow-up text to the outlet, according to Confider.

The Daily Mail reported ratings for CNN’s “This Morning” had experienced record lows since its launch, with averages of just over 330,000 viewers.

Katie Jerkovich contributed to this report.

Actress and activist Jane Fonda couldn’t seem to settle on one definite answer during her recent interview with former “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace, waffling when he pressed her about her now infamous 1972 visit to Vietnam.

Fonda, 85, joined the veteran broadcaster for his weekly interview-based show “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace?” — and while the two discussed a broad range of topics, Wallace asked several questions about the trip that earned the actress the moniker “Hanoi Jane.”

“Your most famous protest was 50 years ago when you went to North Vietnam at the height of the war there. And you were photographed sitting on an anti-aircraft gun,” Wallace began, adding, “Critics, and there were millions of them, called you a Hanoi Jane and said you were a traitor. And the question I have is 50 years later, how do you look back on that particular chapter?”

“It was a terrible mistake. I mean, the reality is, there were 24,000 American troops on the ground in South Vietnam. That’s all the ground troops were going home. The war was being fought by the air during during the Nixon administration,” Fonda replied, saying that she had spent years talking to American soldiers who felt that the war had been “wrong” and that Americans were not wanted there.

“They realized that the war was wrong, that we weren’t wanted there. And that we probably couldn’t win it, not because they weren’t a fabulous soldiers. But because of the nature of Vietnam,” she said.

“So when you say it was a terrible mistake …” Wallace prompted again.

“It was a mistake to go, I never wanted to go to any military installations. It was the last day of my two week time there. And I was like a limp noodle, what I had experienced and what I had seen, I just I wasn’t able to resist, they said we’re gonna take you out here today,” Fonda continued.

Fonda went on to say that the photos showing her smiling were taken after someone had sung a song that made her laugh, not because she was mocking the situation.

“And you know, maybe I was set up, but I was an adult, it’s I’m gonna take responsibility for it,” she said. “If I was Vietnamese, I probably would have tried to do the same thing, you know, but I should not have gone.”

The “80 for Brady” actress pointed out the fact that she had not been the first or only one to visit North Vietnam — she had just been the only movie star, and she had made the choice to go because she hoped it would draw more attention.

“And that’s what it did,” she said. “So I feel that, well if what I did was good, except that I shouldn’t have gone out to a military place.”

“When you got that nickname Hanoi Jane, how did you feel at the time?” Wallace pressed again.

Fonda admitted that she had not liked hearing that name, but that she stood by her decision to protest the war.

“When you know why you did something, and you’re willing to admit the mistakes that you made, but stand up for the things that you did that that mattered? You’re gonna come through it, okay,” she explained to Wallace. “And I refused to have them scare me away from being actively against the Vietnam War. And, you know, I think they thought, oh, she’s this white privilege rich, famous daughter of all of that stuff. You know, we can we can scare her, and boy did they try? And the more they tried, the more I —”

“The more you what?” Wallace asked.

“I dug in my heels,” she said.

Another segment of the lengthy interview took an awkward turn when Fonda, who lamented being inept at small talk at cocktail parties, asked whether Wallace was married and might accompany her to parties so that she’d have someone interesting to talk to.