NEW YORK — Former Fox News pundit Tucker Carlson is blaming his ex-employer for expanding his waistline.

Carlson made the claim while hosting his former colleague Clayton Morris, who like Carlson is critical of the MAGA channel’s coverage of U.S. involvement in Israel’s skirmish with Iran. Both men agreed that working for Fox News had its challenges.

“I just got fat,” Carlson confessed Monday night on his eponymous YouTube show. “It’s incredibly hard physically. Everything about it is the hardest job I ever had.”

Morris, meanwhile, claimed “people get cancer regularly” from working in “miserable” morning TV.

Carlson was a prime-time ratings king before being canned by Fox News in April 2023. His dismissal coincided with the network’s negotiations to settle a $787 million defamation suit with Dominion Voting Systems. The company accused Fox News of spreading disinformation about alleged improprieties involving its equipment in the 2020 presidential election.

Text messages from Carlson that were critical of his network, as well as being racist, were unearthed during the discovery process of that legal battle. Some of those messages conveyed Carlson’s contempt for President Donald Trump, though the 56-year-old pundit now says he supports the president.

According to Carlson, even after he was let go by Fox News, senior figures with the network said they’d support him if he ran against Trump for the presidency in 2024, though he said that wasn’t of interest to him. A lot of people at the pro-Trump channel privately can’t stand the president but pretend otherwise, Carlson claimed.

Carlson had been relatively quiet about his split from the cable outlet prior to his Monday podcast chat with Morris.

“This is really the first time I’ve attacked them,” he said on his Monday show.

Carlson and Morris also expressed a distaste for Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, whom Carlson eviscerated during an interview last week when the pair discussed the conflict in the Middle East and Cruz was unable to answer general questions about Iran, such as how many people live there.

“You don’t know the population of the country you seek to topple?” Carlson marveled.

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