Besides being a highly-successful TV personality, Fox’s Janice Dean effectively dethroned two blowhards – a Democrat governor and his CNN correspondent brother.
Longtime popular TV forecaster Janice Dean announced Thursday her health struggles are forcing her unexpected retirement.
Dean, 56, has multiple sclerosis, the challenges of which she was forced to acknowledge finally have become inconsistent with maintaining a very public career.
“I can no longer continue working,” Dean said in her message on X. “Stepping away is necessary for my health.”
Before starting her career in broadcasting, Dean was a Canadian code-enforcement officer later working at several radio and television stations in Canada, her homeland, and the U.S., finally landing a post at Fox News.
In 2007 she married Sean Newman of the New York City Fire Department. They have two sons.
Dean was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2005. She has recently been on an extended medical leave.
“I know so many of you have been wondering where I’ve been,” she said in her Thursday farewell. “Please know I’ve read your comments, prayers and words of support and kindness. It meant the world to me.
“Goodbyes are hard” Dean added. “But they are necessary before you can meet again.”
“I know how lucky I was and maybe that’s why it’s so hard to finally say the words,” she said. “I call this my sunny goodbye because for every goodbye there is always a new hello. And maybe the chance to meet again at a different place in another time.
“Thank you God bless you all and thank you from the bottom of my heart.”
Dean used her platform as a TV weather celebrity at the height of the recent pandemic to criticize then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo for what she called the Democrat governor’s fatally flawed COVID policies.
She effectively blamed him for the COVID deaths of her in-laws, saying they were among thousands of victims of Cuomo’s criminal refusal to admit sick elderly patients to hospitals instead of keeping them in nursing homes.
Cuomo and his brother, CNN’s Chris Cuomo, allegedly conspired together in a secret campaign to discredit Dean.
But her widespread popularity trumped their fraud. The governor ended up resigning in disgrace and his brother was axed by CNN.
