Steve Doocy will co-host 'Fox & Friends' from Florida

Steve Doocy is giving up his spot connected the curvy sofa astatine “Fox & Friends,” but helium won’t beryllium leaving the Fox News greeting program.

Doocy told viewers Thursday helium is moving to Florida wherever helium volition execute his co-host duties remotely portion Ainsley Earhardt, Lawrence Jones and Brian Kilmeade proceed to helm the programme from the network’s workplace successful New York. After putting successful astir 3 decades connected the greeting displacement astatine Fox News, helium volition trim his enactment load to 3 days a week.

“It is simply a large occupation but the hours suck,” Doocy said. “After decades of getting up astatine 3:30 and driving into New York City successful the dark, contiguous is the past time I volition big this amusement from the couch. I’m not retiring. I’m not leaving the show, I’m inactive a big but it’s clip for a change.”

Doocy said helium volition besides question to extracurricular of Florida to bash distant segments for “Fox & Friends.”

Doocy, 68, is simply a Fox News original, joining the conservative-leaning web erstwhile it launched successful 1996.

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Doocy, 68, is simply a Fox News original, joining the conservative-leaning web erstwhile it launched successful 1996. He was the “weather guy” connected the archetypal Fox News greeting programme “Fox X-Press” and became a co-host of “Fox & Friends” erstwhile it took implicit the clip play successful 1998.

In caller years, Doocy emerged arsenic the subordinate of the “Fox & Friends” squad astir apt to situation the Trump-supporting talking points heard passim the program. His occasionally tense exchanges with Kilmeade — specified arsenic erstwhile the 2 clashed implicit legislature investigations into Joe Biden and his lad Hunter — are often highlighted by Fox News critics connected societal media.

The moments of pushback from Doocy person been noticeable arsenic “Fox & Friends” has agelong been giving Trump an unfiltered forum to contiguous his views — including his mendacious assertion that erstwhile President Obama was not calved successful the U.S. — earlier entering the governmental arena arsenic a candidate.

It remains to beryllium seen whether Doocy’s quality to supply a counterpoint connected issues volition beryllium diminished by not being successful the studio. Doocy assured viewers that helium volition proceed to talk up.

“I volition proceed to articulation the sofa unit for commentary,” helium said. “Don’t interest — you volition inactive perceive my dependable large and clear.”

The programme showed a congratulatory video connection from President Trump. “You’ve ever treated maine reasonably — sometimes a small much reasonably than different times, but that’s OK,” Trump said. “... You are a very, precise bully man.”

Doocy’s son, Peter Doocy, is elder White House analogous for Fox News and his daughter-in-law, Hillary Vaughn, is simply a Washington, D.C.-based analogous for Fox Business Network. Peter Doocy and Vaughn are married.

Before joining Fox News, Steve Doocy was a features newsman astatine the Washington, D.C., presumption WRC-TV, a big for daytime NBC speech amusement “House Party,” and a big connected the cablegram web America’s Talking, which was the precursor to MSNBC.