Fox News is rolling out an all-female podcast, The Girls, with Rachel Campos-Duffy among rotating hosts, a direct challenge to ABC’s The View that already draws sharp pushback over one new contributor.

Fox News has announced a new podcast called The Girls, billed as an all-female show with rotating hosts drawn from across the network’s lineup and framed as a free-flowing alternative to the usual daytime roundtable.

In promo remarks covered in Yahoo News reporting, weekend Fox & Friends host Rachel Campos-Duffy cast the project as a break from ABC’s The View and said the conversations should sound like talks women already have with their own friends.

Campos-Duffy, the wife of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, appeared in a promo video barefoot on her couch and made the contrast plain.

"Everyone is sick of The View,"

She added that the same panel delivers the same opinions week after week, and argued viewers deserve something closer to real girlfriend talk on the hottest topics of the week, including pop culture, news, faith, and parenting.

"We’re going to have a real conversation; not just what rich, Manhattan ladies think,"

Fox described the format as “moving beyond the traditional news roundtable for a free-flowing conversation that can go anywhere.” The early cast tied to the project includes Campos-Duffy, anchor Harris Faulkner, Gutfeld panelist Kat Timpf, former ESPN NFL Sunday Countdown host Samantha Ponder, and new Fox contributor Melissa DeRosa.

Network talent moves have been steady in recent seasons, including when Fox added Billy Bush as a contributor and reshuffled prime-time plans around Jesse Watters.

Ponder’s path is part of that churn. She lost her ESPN job in 2024 before landing in the Fox orbit tied to The Girls.

DeRosa’s arrival is the flash point. The former top aide to ex-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was announced as a Fox contributor this week and is linked to the new podcast, a booking that immediately angered a familiar Fox voice.

Janice Dean, the former Fox & Friends weather anchor who left the network earlier this year, went after the hire on X and refused to treat it as a clean reboot.

"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,"

Dean followed with a second line that left no doubt about her stance.

"My family never forgets what these people did to us."

Her account is personal. Dean had long criticized Cuomo after her mother-in-law and father-in-law died from COVID complications while living in an assisted living home in New York during his tenure. She 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.

Timpf’s place on the roster keeps another recognizable Fox personality in the mix, after recent attention on how Kat Timpf shared second pregnancy news following a hard stretch in her private life.

Campos-Duffy’s own pitch leaned hard on cultural distance from The View. She lives in a wealthy northern New Jersey town with Duffy and several of their 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 in an upscale Brooklyn neighborhood across the river.

By the same residence rundown, more of the women tied to The Girls live in Manhattan than the current View hosts. Of The View’s six hosts, only Joy Behar still keeps a Manhattan place; the other five are in northern New Jersey and Westchester County. That geography sits awkwardly beside a promo line dismissing “rich, Manhattan ladies,” and it is fair to put the claim next to the map.

Fox’s wider host lineup has seen other ruptures and exits, including coverage of how Fox sidelined Maria Bartiromo amid viewer blowback over speech coverage decisions.

Cuomo spent years as a regular target on Fox. During the 2025 New York City mayoral primary against now-Mayor Zohran Mamdani, the network’s posture toward him softened in ways the same reporting flagged as a shift. DeRosa’s contributor deal lands in that changed climate, which is exactly why Dean treated the podcast news as unfinished business rather than fresh entertainment.

Programming fights inside Fox are not new. Later fallout also tracked the network as it parted ways with Maria Bartiromo after 12 years amid leaked editorial-guidance allegations, another reminder that talent moves there rarely stay quiet.

Campos-Duffy’s promo still sells The Girls as the place for women who want faith, parenting, news, and pop culture without a locked progressive script. The open question is whether a rotating Fox cast can keep that promise while platforming a Cuomo-era operative whose record still triggers the families who lived through New York’s nursing-home disaster.

Related network branding has already framed Rachel Campos-Duffy’s role on the all-female podcast as a straight shot at The View’s lane, and this announcement follows that same lane change.

Dean’s posts do not erase a dismissed lawsuit. They do put a cost on amnesia. If Fox wants a show about honest girlfriend talk, it will have to explain why Cuomo’s former gatekeeper belongs in the circle.

Conservative women never needed a Manhattan panel’s permission to speak plainly. They do need hosts who remember who got protected, and who got left behind.