Ohio State President Ted Carter blew up $1.5M job, 45-year marriage over ‘inappropriate relationship’ with podcaster: report
Ohio State President “Ted” Carter Jr. blew up his $1.5 million-per-year job and his 45-year marriage over an “inappropriate relationship” with an area podcaster with pitiful listening numbers.
Carter’s resignation – which got here after he admitted he gave “inappropriate entry to Ohio State management” to a lady who wished assist together with her private enterprise – was “probably related” with host of the Callout Podcast Krisanthe Vlachos, a podcast sponsor advised NBC 4.
“JobsOhio is conscious Ted Carter resigned this morning as President of The Ohio State College and that this case is probably related to a relationship between him and the host of a podcast for veterans, which we sponsored,” JobsOhio, an financial growth group, mentioned in an announcement.
“The Callout Podcast alternative was per that mission of outreach. The sponsorship of this podcast went via our commonplace and rigorous authorized course of, as with every sponsorship given by JobsOhio.”
Carter, 66, has been an everyday fixture on Vlachos’ veterans-focused for months, in line with Vlachos’ LinkedIn and Instagram accounts.
A photograph taken on the Pupil Veterans of America 2026 nationwide convention in Colorado Springs in January exhibits the previous college president smiling alongside Vlachos, who’s clad in an all-black leather-based get-up.
In a caption alongside the photograph, Vlachos refers to Carter as her “expensive buddy and mentor.”
Carter’s resignation Monday got here after he admitted to the college’s board of trustees that he “made a mistake in permitting inappropriate entry to Ohio State management” to a lady who wished assist together with her non-public enterprise, he mentioned in an announcement.
He didn’t elaborate on the circumstances surrounding the connection, however mentioned he was leaving along with his spouse of almost 45 years.
Vlachos didn’t reply to a request for remark.
