Tucker Carlson launches new $72-a-year subscription service seven months after his firing from Fox News in wake of $787M Dominion payout

Tucker Carlson has launched a $72-a-year subscription service for fans to watch his content, after he was unceremoniously sacked from Fox News in April. 

The former host of Tucker Carlson Tonight announced his 'brand new thing' and encouraged fans to sign-up and 'join team Tucker'.

It comes seven months after he was sacked from Fox News days after the network was forced to pay out $787million in the Dominion defamation lawsuit. 

Since then, Carlson has been uploading his interviews with divisive figures like Andrew Tate and Viktor Orban on X. 

But now he's starting his own streaming service, saying: 'Time flies when you’re unemployed, but actually we have been working in secret and producing an awful lot of material for months now.'

Fans can sign up on his site to access the 'exclusive content' with a 'limited time offer' to 'become a founding member'. 

Carlson was sacked from Fox in the aftermath of the Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit. 

Dominion had sued Fox for $1.6billion for defamation, claiming hosts like Carlson knew then-President Trump's election fraud claims were untrue, but pushed them for ratings.

They settled for $787million at the 11th hour, narrowly avoiding an embarrassing and highly-publicized trial where Carlson and other hosts would likely have been called as witnesses. 

Carlson was not told why he was being forced out at the time - but Fox CEO Suzanne Scott reportedly said the decision was made 'from above'.

Various insiders have claimed it was News Corp boss Rupert Murdoch who made the decision.

Since being fired, Carlson has been hosting his shows on X, with recent episodes being viewed hundreds of millions of times. 

In recent months he has taken to interviewing ever-more polarizing figures - among them Hungary's far-right prime minister, Viktor Orban, and accused sex trafficker and self-proclaimed misogynist Andrew Tate. 

This week he interviewed conspiracy theorist Alex Jones - who told him President Joe Biden is drugged up on amphetamines and wanders the White House naked and lost in the middle of the night.

Carlson is now taking his content onto his own site, TuckerCarlson.com.

The site promises that they are 'just days away from the launch of Tucker Carlson’s new streaming platform' and urges people to 'get in ahead of the crowd'.

It claims there will be 'hours of exclusive members-only content hosted by Tucker Carlson'. 

His Fox show, Tucker Carlson Tonight, drew in 3.5million viewers every night - but in recent years it was dubbed the 'most racist show on cable'. 

Then a series of controversies including the Dominion claims and Carlson's own comments about the January 6 riots led him into increasingly hot water. 

Carlson joined Fox as a contributor in 2009, having previously offered his conservative opinions on CNN shows.

He was given his own show on the network in 2016 and quickly became its most watched host, cementing his own fanbase and reputation for taking some of the most extreme, hard-right positions on cable news.