Michael Eugene Joseph Jerrick (born July 3, 1950) is a news anchor and a former co-host with Juliet Huddy of the morning program ''

The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet ''The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet'' was an American syndicated morning talk show. Produced by Fox, the show first aired on January 22, 2007, to a number of markets originally through Fox and MyNetworkTV, most in the Fox Television Stati ...

'', which began in January 2007. The last "live" episode of the show aired on June 12, 2009. He has formerly co-hosted with Huddy ''DaySide'' and has both been the co-host and current fill-in host on ''

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'' on the Fox News Channel. Jerrick now co-hosts '' Good Day Philadelphia'' on

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Life and career

Jerrick was raised in

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, and attended Chaplain Kapaun Memorial High School, a Jesuit-run boys' school (now defunct; merged to become Kapaun Mount Carmel Catholic High School). The Wichita native started his career at Topeka's

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(when fellow colleague Steve Doocy was doing the weather at WIBW's crosstown rival, KSNT-TV). Jerrick's boyish looks and charisma soon took him to

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in New York as a producer and later host, before moving to

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. During the mid-80s, Jerrick served as co-host for the

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afternoon talk show ''Alive and Well''. He also worked for HBO's ''World Entertainment Report'', before moving to the

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's '' Sci-Fi Buzz'' and later hosting ''What's News'' on

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, a short-lived cable news channel. Soon after, he hosted

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's ''America After Hours'', and moved to WTXF as the morning host on ''Good Day Philadelphia'' before coming to the Fox News Channel in 2002. After his daytime talk show, ''The Morning Show with Mike & Juliet'', was cancelled, Jerrick returned to Philadelphia, and now co-hosts Fox 29's ''Good Day Philadelphia'', and occasionally is called back to New York as a substitute on ''Fox & Friends Weekend''. On Wednesday April 1, 2015, Jerrick announced his candidacy for Mayor of Philadelphia for the 2015 elections. This announcement was made on ''Good Day Philadelphia'', and Jerrick received multiple messages of support; however, it was subsequently revealed to have been an April Fools' joke. In January 2017 Jerrick was suspended for a week by Fox 29. On the 23rd Jerrick, co-host Alex Holley and guests were discussing Trump advisor

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's now infamous '

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' claim when he said that she was 'good at bullshit'. Holley immediately responded 'We're sorry for that', and Jerrick apologized as well. However, management immediately suspended Jerrick for the rest of the week for using a word considered to be offensive on live television. He returned to the air on January 30 with an apology to Holley and viewers, who had shown support for him on the station's social media during his absence.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jerrick, Mike Living people Fox News people American television talk show hosts People from Hoboken, New Jersey People from Wichita, Kansas 1950 births