Longtime meteorologist Janice Dean is stepping away from Fox News

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Set us as preferred Janice Dean, the chief meteorologist for the popular Fox News morning program “Fox & Friends” for 22 years, is leaving her role due to health reasons.Dean, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, told her social media followers Thursday she can no longer handle the early morning grind due to her condition.“I was diagnosed early and I’ve been on different therapies for over the last two decades,” Dean said in a video message posted on X.“But there’s no cure for MS, and over time, my symptoms have progressed.

Unfortunately, lack of sleep and stress are some of the biggest triggers, and I was increasingly feeling the effects of my limitations.Ultimately, my symptoms progressed to the point that I can no longer continue working in my role.”Dean, 56, was a mostly cheerful, non-partisan presence on “Fox & Friends.” But she did not shy away from controversial issues.In her 2019 memoir “Mostly Sunny: How I Leaned to Keep Smiling During My Rainiest Days,” Dean recounted how she was harassed by former Fox News Chief Executive Roger Ailes.

She said he made suggestive remarks to her when they met to discuss her hiring.During one meeting he asked, “How are you at phone sex?”Ailes was fired in 2016 for having sexually harassed former anchor Gretchen Carlson, which opened the floodgates of other complaints against the company’s executives and on-air talent, including Bill O’Reilly who was ousted a year later.

Dean later praised the company’s new leader Suzanne Scott for improving the workplace culture at Fox News.“I don’t feel fear anymore,” Dean told The Times in 2019.“It truly is because of the strong women who work at the company now.”Dean also wrote that she was also subjected to demeaning comments from the late radio host Don Imus during her tenure as a news editor ...