NEW YORK, Sept. 23 -- There is a particular symmetry in where Billy Bush has ended up. The man NBC ejected in the fall of 2016, swiftly and with little ceremony, in a move the network would later frame as a matter of institutional values, is joining Fox News Media as a contributor, the company announced Monday. His debut is set for tonight on Jesse Watters Primetime. The network that spent years publicly revisiting the political calculations behind that firing has now hired the man at the center of it.

Fox News Media confirmed the deal Monday morning. Bush, who most recently spent five seasons hosting the syndicated entertainment program Extra and currently produces and hosts the digital talk show Hot Mics with Billy Bush, will appear ac...