Tucker Carlson was “sacked essentially for thinking that he was bigger than Fox News,” and the decision to drop him was made by Lachlan Murdoch, not his father Rupert Murdoch alone, as some media reports have indicated, according to Andrew Bolt, one of the biggest stars on News Corp-owned Sky News Australia.

“The message is now out,” Bolt said during his program Tuesday. “If you threaten your station or your newspaper by going a bit nuts, you know, saying all sorts of wild things that maybe you know are false or maybe you haven’t even bothered to check enough, it doesn’t matter how big you are, you are never bigger than the media organization that actually made you.”

The Murdoch family took full control of Sky News Australia in 2016 through the local arm of News Corp. Rupert Murdoch is the chair of the Fox Corporation, owner of Fox News, and the executive chair of News Corp. His son, Lachlan, is the executive chair and chief executive officer of Fox Corporation and oversees the company’s portfolio of news, sports, and entertainment assets.

“Fox News is part of the Murdoch media Empire that includes Sky News,” Bolt said. “Tucker was actually sacked, and some outlets have reported just before I went to air, he was sacked by Lachlan Murdoch, the day-to-day boss of News Corp.”

Fox News has lost other “giants” before, said Bolt, including Roger Ailes, Glenn Beck, Megyn Kelly, and Bill O’Reilly, and “it’s only gotten stronger,” but still, “maybe now some other hosts, and not just Fox News, will realize it is Lachlan Murdoch who runs the business and it’s not them.”

Bolt also noted the $787.5 million Dominion lawsuit settlement, which happened “because some Fox News hosts have gone nuts pushing the fake news that Donald Trump was beaten at the last election by voting machines that are somehow been rigged,” but said that Carlson “did not push that lie like some other people” at Fox News.