The day he was fired, Tucker Carlson was nearly invisible on the Fox News prime-time lineup that he used to dominate.

�We�re not talking about him,� former colleague Sean Hannity said in one of the two very brief mentions of Carlson�s name on Fox News on Monday night. In contrast, his ouster was the lead story on ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts.

Carlson was abruptly bounced from his popular prime-time show earlier in the day without any explanation from Fox. It was less than one week after Fox had agreed to pay $787 million to settle a lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems over the network�s dissemination of bogus election conspiracy theories, and it came as more legal threats loom.

Brian Kilmeade took over Carlson�s hour, telling viewers that Carlson and Fox had agreed to part ways, �as you may have heard.� He swiftly moved on to other stories.

Hannity led his hour-long broadcast with a story on Hunter Biden, the president�s son, and interviewed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin.

Carlson�s name came up when Hannity did a segment on the other big media story of the day, CNN�s firing of anchor Don Lemon. He brought on Kellyanne Conway, former aide to President Donald Trump, to criticize Lemon as a studio audience cheered.

�We�re not talking about Tucker,� Hannity said, unprompted. �I don�t have any details on it. He had a massive audience and he had a huge following. This guy (Lemon) had nobody.�

Fox�s other prime-time host, Laura Ingraham, didn�t mention Carlson. Instead, she criticized Democrats in her lead story, �Whatever Happened to Hope and Change?� She also did a segment on a contest in Belgium where people pretended to screech like seagulls.

Carlson, Hannity and Ingraham appeared close in November 2020. That�s when they engaged in a three-way text conversation bashing their own network�s news division following the presidential election, according to documents revealed earlier this year as part of Dominion�s lawsuit.

Fox has said that rotating guest hosts will occupy Carlson�s old time slot until a full-time replacement is named.

(AP)