Everybody wants to know what’s next for Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News personality who hosted the highest rated cable news show on TV but got fired last week.

We can now tell you what’s next. He’s coming to Alabama.

“He’ll be here Thursday,” said Tim Hodge, executive director of Rainbow Omega in Eastaboga, which offers residential care and other service for adults with mental disabilities.

Carlson will speak at Rainbow Omega’s annual fundraiser, which will be held Thursday night at 7 p.m. at the Oxford Performing Arts Center. The venue seats about 1,200 and tickets are still available, but they’ve been going fast since word of Carlson’s firing at Fox.

Carlson agreed to speak at the fundraiser long before he was fired.

“We actually booked him back last fall,” Hodge said. “The timing for last week’s announcement was unexpected by anybody.”

Obviously, the attention on Carlson lately increased interest in the event.

“Anytime you have a featured speaker from the world of politics, with our country’s political divide, you can bet there’s a lot of interest,” Hodge said. “It was kind of an unusual situation. There has been renewed interest.”

More than 500 tickets have sold since Carlson’s firing.

“He’s honored what he said he would do,” Hodge said. “We’re looking forward to him being here and being part of our fundraiser.”

Fox News fired Carlson on April 24. The final episode of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Fox News aired Friday, April 21. Carlson had been with Fox for 14 years.

Speculation has been rampant about where Carlson will end up next. Will he do a show on another network, or launch his own? Will he do a podcast, or maybe run for president?

Will he announce his plans this week while he’s in Alabama?

“If he announces what he plans to do next, we would have loved to have retroactively known that and promoted that,” Hodge said. “It’s an interesting sequence of events that led to where we are.”

Carlson agreed to speak because it’s a worthwhile cause, Hodge said.

“Rainbow Omega provides services to adults with developmental disabilities,” Hodge said. “We provide residential services, day program services, and also vocational opportunities as well.”

The residential facility can house up to 88 residents and currently has 82.

Rainbow Omega holds one major fundraiser per year, Hodge said, and they couldn’t be happier with the choice of guest speaker.

“This is something we planned months in advance,” Hodge said. “It’s unusual timing.”