Kim Hume: Time For Cookies

In Paul Bedard’s latest “Washington Whispers,” he finds out what Kim Hume plans to do next:

What could be better than baking Christmas cookies? How about having no job and unlimited time to devote to the batter and oven? That’s exactly what Fox News Washington Bureau Chief Kim Hume has planned. The better half of the bureau’s on-camera star, Brit Hume, Kim is leaving after Thanksgiving. And why? “I’m just done,” she says. “Most times when this happens, people always think there’s a back story,” she says. “In this case, there really isn’t,” she says, adding: “Now’s the time, and I want to finish well.” The Humes, who worked together at ABC before Fox, set the bureau up in 1996 and get credit for making it a powerhouse. Brit asked her to stay but caved in. “He gets husband points galore for this,” she says. Her future? “I’ll do something,” says Hume, 51. But first, those cookies. “My cookies are famous,” she says. “I can bake my Christmas cookies at leisure. I know this sounds stupid, but you have no idea how good that sounds to me.”

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