Michael Gelman

Michael Gelman
Gelman in 2023
Born
Michael Seth Gelman

(1961-08-04) August 4, 1961 (age 65)
New York City, U.S.
EducationUniversity of Colorado Boulder
OccupationsTelevision producer, actor
Years active1987–present
SpouseLaurie Gelman (m. 2000)
Children2

Michael Seth Gelman (born August 4, 1961) is an American television producer best known as the executive producer of Live with Kelly and Mark. He also appeared in two episodes of Kelly Ripa's ABC sitcom Hope and Faith.

Early life and career

Gelman was born in Manhattan, New York City to a Jewish family, and lived in Queens, New Jersey and the Long Island town of Dix Hills through grades 1-6, before moving to the Chicago suburb of Highland Park, Illinois. After high school, he moved to Melville, New York.

While earning a degree in broadcast production management from the University of Colorado Boulder School of Journalism in 1983, Gelman worked for the U.S. Ski Association covering pre-Olympic trials all over the country as a cameraman, field producer and editor. Gelman's most important internship came during the summer of his junior year at WABC-TV in New York, the station that would later produce Live! with Kelly and Mark. In the 1980s he became a production assistant on Regis Philbin's local talk show, The Morning Show. Gelman worked his way up to Executive Producer on The Morning Show which would eventually become Live!.

Personal life

In 2000, he married Laurie Hibberd, a television personality from Canada who also worked in morning television as the co-host of FX's Breakfast Time with Tom Bergeron. They have two daughters and live in Manhattan.[citation needed]

References

  1. 1 2 "'Live with Kelly and Ryan' producer gives sneak peek of LI episode,” Newsday: " 'Wikipedia is incorrect,' Gelman notes of the crowdsourced online encyclopedia's assertion that he was born and raised in Highland Park, Illinois. "I was actually born at Mount Sinai hospital in Manhattan. Then we lived in Forest Hills [Queens], and in New Jersey, but when I was in first grade we moved to Dix Hills. We lived there till I was in sixth grade, then we moved to Highland Park, and at the end of my high school career moved back to Long Island, to Melville. So, really, Long Island was my home.' "
  2. 1 2 Maloney, Michael (12 September 2007). "Supporting cast add to 'Live's' success". Variety. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
  3. ↑ Minuk, Susan (January 10, 2018). "The Hilarious Trials of the Class Mom; A Novel About a Peppy Parent". The Canadian Jewish News.
  4. ↑ Winn, Kate (14 July 2010). "Laurie Gelman: My Exclusive Momterview". This Mom Loves. I really wanted us to have a united front, which to me meant taking his name, and agreeing on how to raise the kids. We agreed they should be Jewish, so I made the jump. I think it gives them a strong sense of family when we're all united this way. It plays the biggest role around the holidays, but the Jewish faith is rooted in cultural things; it's not just a religion, so you live the Jewish life every day, even if you only go to Synagogue on holidays