Michael Seth Gelman (born August 4, 1961) is the executive producer of ''
Live with Kelly and Ryan
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''. He also occasionally takes small roles on television, appearing in two episodes of
Kelly Ripa
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's
ABC sitcom
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''
Hope and Faith
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''. He also has a Guinness World Record for the most morning talk show episodes produced by the same producer.
Early life and career
Gelman was born in
Manhattan
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in a
Jewish
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family, and lived in Queens, in New Jersey and through grades 1-6 in the Long Island town of
Dix Hills, New York before moving to the
Chicago
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suburb of
Highland Park,
Illinois
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. After high school he move to
Melville, Long Island, New York. While earning a degree in broadcast production management from the
University of Colorado
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School of Journalism, Gelman worked for the
U.S. Ski Association covering pre-Olympic trials all over the country as a cameraman, field producer and editor. Gelman's most important internship came during the summer of his junior year at
WABC-TV
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in New York, the station that would later produce ''Live! with Kelly and Ryan''. In the 1980s he became a production assistant on
Regis Philbin
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's local talk show, ''The Morning Show''.
Gelman worked his way to Executive Producer on ''The Morning Show'' which would eventually become ''Live!''.
Personal life
In 2000, he married
Laurie Hibberd, a television personality from
Canada
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who also worked in
morning television
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as the co-host of
FX's ''Breakfast Time'' with
Tom Bergeron
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.
They have two daughters, Jamie and Misha, and live in
Manhattan
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.
References
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1961 births
Living people
American television producers
20th-century American Jews
21st-century American Jews
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