On August 20, writer, lawyer, radio host, and TV analyst Clay Travis claimed that his former CNN broadcaster Brooke Baldwin got him “banned” from the network.“This chick got me banned from @cnn for saying I believed in the First Amendment and b**bs. Now she posts more pics of her b**bs than Sydney Sweeney. She owes me a public apology,” Travis, 47, wrote on X.He was reacting to the recent New York Post article on Baldwin, also 47, titled:“Ex-CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin dishes on her desires after candid s*x confession — and shares career update.”Brooke Baldwin left CNN in April 2021. Two months before that, she announced her departure, saying she would focus on “amplifying the lives of extraordinary Americans” and “putting my passion for storytelling to good use.”Three years later, she revealed in a Vanity Fair essay that she was “fired” by then-CNN President Jeff Zucker after complaining about her executive producer.Clay Travis is shading Brooke Baldwin for a 9-year-old on-air incident. (Image via X)In September 2017, Baldwin ended her CNN segment after her guest panelist Travis from Fox Sports Radio repeatedly expressed his “love” for the “First Amendment and b**bs.”“I say it live on the radio all the time because it’s true and that’s what I do,” Clay said at the time, speaking via satellite from Nashville, TN.Brooke Baldwin appeared to be baffled and disgusted before saying:“I’m done. I’m sorry. I’m done. This conversation is over.”Meanwhile, Clay Travis’ fellow guest panelist and former ESPN editor Keith Reed refused to sway from the topic at hand, which was Trump demanding that an ESPN reporter be “fired” for tweeting that he was a “white supremacist.”“I’m not talking about that on television because it’s irrelevant to the topic. It shouldn’t be brought up here,” Reed responded to Travis’ NSFW remark.Back then, Travis, who’s now known as the founder of Outkick, took to X and prided himself on “triggering” Baldwin:“You can’t say you like the First Amendment and b**bs? I say and write it every day. Need to make t-shirts now. CNN is so offended that they already called me and asked if I could come back on Monday. Too perfect.”A CNN spokesperson told The Hollywood Reporter:“Clay Travis was not booked again on CNN. Prior to his appearance with Brooke Baldwin, he had been tentatively scheduled to appear Monday on HLN. That interview has been cancelled.”As for Fox Sports, they told THR:“In response to Clay Travis’ appearance on CNN today, his comments were inappropriate. Clay Travis has not worked at FOX Sports for six months and is a syndicated talent of Premiere Networks.”Exploring further Brooke Baldwin’s exit from CNNAtlanta-born journalist, TV presenter, and writer Brooke Baldwin joined CNN in 2008 as an anchor and correspondent before getting her own weekday afternoon show, CNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin, in 2014. She also hosted the digital series, American Woman, besides other notable gigs on the network.In a February 2021 episode, she began her segment with a “personal news” that she would be resigning from the network in April.“Let me back up. After most of my 20s working my way up in local news, I came to this network in 2008 – in the midst of the Great Recession as a freelancer. I remember I scribbled my name on a Post-It note and stuck it outside of this temporary office, determined to fulfil my dream of becoming a full-time CNN correspondent.”The Peabody Award recipient thanked the outgoing CNN President Jeff Zucker and her “very large CNN family” for their “loyalty” and “passion.” She added:“You know, there is just more I need to do, more I need to do outside of this place, outside the walls of this place, a place I’ve been privileged to call home now for 13 years.”However, she did reveal that her first book, Huddle: How Women Unlock Their Collective Power, would be published by Harper Collins in April. Brooke Baldwin stated:“And, yep, we're still in a pandemic, and nope, I don’t have a job I’m jumping right into, and yes – yes, I’m feeling very vulnerable. But what is it Brené Brown says? ‘Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change,’ and I am so excited about what is to come. So, here it goes: I really do hope you’ll join me, and in the meantime, I’ll be right here with you, right here until mid-April.”Back then, she said in an interview that CNN is a “male-dominated network,” hinting that there were other reasons behind her exit.In April 2024, Brooke Baldwin opened up about what happened behind-the-scenes and how Jeff Zucker wanted her “out” after she complained about her executive producer and her contentious relationship with him to the senior execs. She wrote in a Vanity Fair essay:“When I signed off from CNN Newsroom on April 16, 2021, I couldn’t tell the whole truth. I wasn’t allowed to — and probably still am not… CNN moved me from Atlanta to New York, but my producing team stayed behind; we would work long-distance. I could feel my tether to my executive producer begin to fray.”Baldwin admitted that her “yes-girl behavior” for the longest time “snowballed” into a tense situation and following the move, her “working relationship” with her producer began to take a “drastic turn.” According to Brooke, the man made her feel as if she couldn’t do “heavy-hitting interviews” without his guidance.“The word ‘gaslighting’ has become so cliché, but that’s what it felt like. Manipulation. Bullying… He would go dark during my live broadcasts. There would be days when I’d get on set, clip on my microphone, and slip my earpiece into my right ear. No ‘Hello.’ No check-in. Instead, I’d be greeted by someone less seasoned,” the journalist recalled.When Brooke Baldwin told then-CNN President that she wanted the producer off her team, Zucker reportedly declined and said:“I could give your show to someone in Washington tomorrow. But I won’t… because I believe you’re the best broadcaster on this network.”Baldwin was later taken off air as a consequence of her complaint for two months before and on Election Day 2020. She wrote on Vanity Fair:“In January 2021, the morning Trump was impeached for a second time, my cell phone rang. It wasn’t my boss —rather, it was my agent. Jeff wanted me out. No explanation. Just out… Jeff never spoke to me again. Neither did my former executive producer, who ended up getting moved to another show for COVID-protocol reasons and then eventually promoted.”Brooke Baldwin recounted receiving “crickets” after her departure despite serving the network for 13 years. However, according to her, the “worst part” was that she had to “lie” to her team, friends, family, and viewers. She also blamed her “unravelling” on her childhood trauma and people-pleasing tendency, adding she was finally finding her “voice” in the aftermath of her career at CNN. View this post on Instagram Instagram PostSince then, Brooke has hosted the Netflix reality series, The Trust: A Game of Greed, between 2023 and 2024. She has also been pursuing storytelling and filmmaking projects.In May this year, Brooke Baldwin made headlines after writing in a Substack blog that she was s*xually assaulted by two older and unknown men in a Los Angeles hotel over two decades ago and that they allegedly spiked her drink at a bar where they seemingly met. She was 21 at the time.Brooke Baldwin, who was married to English producer James Fletcher from 2018 to 2023, told The New York Post earlier this week that she has been developing an independent journalism project called “America, Tell Me Everything” in the last few months. It will focus on her travelling across the country and interviewing women from different backgrounds,“whose lives and experiences may look nothing like mine or each other’s.”She further mentioned:“I am building something of my own now and we start shooting in two weeks!!! After twenty-plus years in mainstream media, I’m doing journalism on my terms.”The statement came amid her viral July 19 Substack post, where Brooke Baldwin confessed to loving and being good at s*x yet turning down work opportunities in exchange for s*xual favors with four different men as well as romances with one who “used to run a country” and another who “literally flew in just to take me to dinner.”“I don’t want less intimacy. I want more. I love being deeply known, and knowing someone deeply in return. Instead, I crave spaciousness — in partnership or out of it,” she exclaimed.Baldwin added, among other tell-all aspects of her personal life and career, that there was no more 24/7 newsroom noise to “drown me out” or a job that “never quite loved me back the way I loved it.”Brooke Baldwin has yet to respond to Clay Travis’ recent claim on X.