Griffin loses CNN deal after photos with fake severed head
By Reuters
01 June 2017 |
4:34 am
CNN terminates Kathy Griffin's agreement to appear on its New Year's Eve broadcast after posing in photographs with a fake severed head resembling Donald Trump.
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