Steve Doocy, the longtime co-host of Fox & Friends, said that he will be moving to a new, out-of-stufio role with a schedule of fewer days in the week.
“Today is the last day I will host this show from the couch. I am not retiring,” Doocy told viewers. I am not leaving the show. I am still a host, but it is time for a change.” He said that he will move to a three-day-a-week schedule and will be based in Florida, where he will do out-of-studio segments from there and elsewhere.
Brian Kilmeade, Ainsley Earhardt and Lawrence Jones will continue to co-host from New York.
Doocy has been a co-host on the show since 1998, the year it premiered, and has been with Fox News since 1996, the year it launched.
Doocy told viewers that his gig was “a great job” but “the hours suck.”
“You know how many mornings my alarm clock has gone off at 3:30 in the morning?” Doocy said, adding that AI told him that it was 6,828 times.
Doocy told Mediaite, which first reported on this plans, “It’s interesting, having done this for 30 years, you start thinking about how you’re going to find an off-ramp eventually. What that looks like or what it feels like — I’ve been thinking about this for a few years and how you do it.”
