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Former Fox News Star Threatens to Tell All

The cable news channel’s longtime meteorologist claims she was essentially told to “shut up and do the weather.”

Longtime Fox & Friends personality Janice Dean is threatening to tell all about how she was “muzzled” during her time there.

In a series of social media posts, Dean, 56, who left the show last month, said she had been silenced by the conservative cable channel over the course of her 22-year career there—but implied she is ready to start talking.

“I have many, many, many stories,” she posted on X. “Sometimes I can’t believe the stuff I’ve been through. But I’m free now.”

Much of her ire appears to be towards former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, of whom she was highly critical after her mother-in-law and father-in-law both died due to COVID complications while living in an assisted living home in New York state under Cuomo’s leadership.

She was irritated that he was a guest on Maria Bartiromo’s Fox Business News show on Monday.

In another post, Dean implied that she was forced by Fox News to stop talking about her frustrations with the governor.

“Someday I’ll tell you all the story of how I was banned to talk about Andrew Cuomo after I spent years speaking out about what he did to seniors during COVID,” she wrote.

In response to one user, who asked, “Were you told something along the lines of ‘shut up and do the weather?’” Dean responded, “Yes.”

Dean also asserted that she was “muzzled” from speaking about Cuomo during his doomed campaign for mayor of New York City, which was featured heavily on Fox News.

Another user said, “It was only allowed when it was convenient for Fox, sorry, not sorry,” to which Dean responded, “Yes.”

Rich Azzopardi, a spokesman for Cuomo, said, “Every credible inquiry found New York’s guidance was consistent with federal guidelines, and Ms. Dean’s family’s own lawsuit was dismissed at every level, including by the U.S. Supreme Court, which declined to consider it earlier this year.” 

Dean announced she would leave the cable news channel after 22 years working as the morning show’s meteorologist after her yearslong battle with multiple sclerosis progressed to a point where she could no longer handle the grueling morning news schedule.

During her final show on the network, she began tearing up as she said goodbye.

“The things that people don’t talk about are when you leave a career, a job, there is a grieving period, because this has been part of my life,” she said on her last live show. “You guys have been my second family, and this, I think, will help me with that grieving period. Because turning the page on this chapter has been really heavy.”

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At the time, Dean took an optimistic approach to her departure, calling it a “mostly sunny goodbye,” adding that, “for every goodbye, there’s always the next hello.”

Those sentiments appear to have dissipated after stepping away. In one post online since her departure, Dean said, “Is it OK to say I don’t miss doing the weather?”

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