Fox News is launching an all-female podcast called The Girls with Rachel Campos-Duffy among the hosts, a move pitched as the conservative answer to ABC’s The View.
Rachel Campos-Duffy, the Fox & Friends weekend host and wife of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, appears in the promo for the network’s new show and frames it as the girlfriend-style talk conservatives have wanted for years. Yahoo Entertainment reported that Fox billed The Girls as moving beyond the traditional news roundtable for a free-flowing conversation that can go anywhere.
The current cast includes Campos-Duffy, Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner, Gutfeld panelist Kat Timpf, and former ESPN host Samantha Ponder. Melissa DeRosa, the former top aide to ex-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, was announced as a Fox contributor this week and is also involved with the project.
Campos-Duffy did not hide the target. In the promo she said everyone is sick of The View, called out the same ladies and the same opinions, and sold a different tone.
"Everyone is sick of The View,"
she said, before adding that viewers want something closer to real girlfriend talk. She continued:
"It’s the same ladies and the same opinions. Wouldn’t it be great if there was a show where you could watch a conversation that’s a lot like the conversations that you have with your own girlfriends?"
"Well, that’s what we’re going to do here at Fox," Campos-Duffy said. The show, she added, will hit the hottest topics of the week, including pop culture, news, faith, and parenting.
She went further on the cultural point. "We’re going to have a real conversation; not just what rich, Manhattan ladies think," Campos-Duffy said. That line is the heart of the pitch: an all-female Fox conversation that does not sound like the elite daytime panel conservatives have loathed for years.
The residence details in the same reporting undercut any simple geography lesson. Campos-Duffy lives in a wealthy northern New Jersey town with her husband and several of her nine children. Faulkner lives in an upscale New Jersey suburb in a townhouse once featured by the New York Times. Timpf and Ponder live in Manhattan. DeRosa lives across the river in an upscale Brooklyn neighborhood. The piece notes that more of the women tied to The Girls live in Manhattan than the current View hosts, five of whom are described as living in northern New Jersey and Westchester County, with only Joy Behar still keeping a Manhattan residence.
Ponder arrived after a 2024 layoff from ESPN’s NFL Sunday Countdown. Timpf already sits on Fox’s late-night comedy panel, and her personal story has kept her in the spotlight, including when Kat Timpf revealed a second pregnancy onstage more than a year after a double mastectomy.
The roster choice that drew the loudest reaction was DeRosa. Former Fox & Friends weather personality Janice Dean, who left the network earlier this year, posted her anger on X after seeing Cuomo’s ex-aide welcomed into the Fox orbit.
Dean wrote:
"Just a reminder: Melissa DeRosa helped smear the women who came forward about Andrew Cuomo’s harassment, and played a hand in undercounting nursing home deaths during COVID. Also tried to silence my advocacy,"
She followed with a second line:
"My family never forgets what these people did to us."
Dean’s mother-in-law and father-in-law both died of COVID complications while living in an assisted living home in New York state during Cuomo’s tenure. She had sued Cuomo and DeRosa over the pandemic response. Courts dismissed the case at every level, and the Supreme Court declined to hear it earlier this year. Dean’s posts state her claims; the procedural record shows the lawsuit did not survive.
Fox’s relationship with Cuomo himself has shifted in public view. The network ridiculed him for years, then somewhat welcomed him during the 2025 New York City mayoral primary, when he ran against now-Mayor Zohran Mamdani. DeRosa’s contributor announcement lands in that same unsettled space.
The Girls fits a broader pattern of Fox testing new voices and formats. The network has moved contributors and prime-time pieces before, including when Fox added Billy Bush as a contributor and lined up a Jesse Watters Primetime debut. Those moves show a company still hunting for the next sticky franchise.
Internal turbulence has also been part of the recent record. Viewers watched the network sideline and later part ways with a longtime business anchor, a sequence covered when Fox sidelined Maria Bartiromo and again when the two sides split after 12 years amid leaked editorial-guidance allegations. Against that backdrop, an all-female podcast sold as the anti-View is another bet on personality-driven talk.
Off-air politics still brush the brand as well. One recent episode put a Democratic senator in the same frame as network leadership after Fetterman joined Fox executives at a Murdoch ranch retreat in Montana. The Girls is a different product, but it lands in the same ecosystem of talent, access, and audience expectation.
Fox’s own billing is simple: drop the stiff roundtable, let the conversation roam, and put women from across the channel in rotating seats. Campos-Duffy’s promo language is blunter. She is selling fatigue with The View, a girlfriend cadence, faith and parenting alongside news and pop culture, and a deliberate break from what she called rich Manhattan opinion.
Absolute premiere dates and a full official cast grid were not laid out in the initial reporting. DeRosa’s exact role, regular host, rotating chair, or contributor guest, was also left unclear. What is clear is the contrast the network wants viewers to see: ABC’s long-running daytime panel on one side, a Fox podcast built around Campos-Duffy, Faulkner, Timpf, Ponder, and DeRosa’s new contributor lane on the other.
Dean’s reaction shows the hire is not cost-free inside the conservative audience. She tied DeRosa to the Cuomo harassment response, nursing-home death counts, and her own silenced advocacy, then said her family does not forget. The courts closed her case. Her warning still sits on the public record next to Fox’s welcome mat.
Conservative viewers have waited years for an all-female show that does not lecture them from the left. Fox just put one on the calendar. Now the conversation has to sound as real as the promo promised.
