Years active 1987–present Spouse Laurie Hibberd (m. 2000) | Role Executive Name Michael Gelman | |
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Full Name Michael Seth Gelman Born August 4, 1961 (age 62) ( 1961-08-04 ) Highland Park, Illinois Occupation Television producer, actor Children Misha Gelman, Jamie Alexandra Gelman Awards Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Entertainment Nominations Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Similar People Kelly Ripa, Laurie Hibberd, Regis Philbin, Michael Strahan, Kathie Lee Gifford Profiles | ||
Alma mater University of Colorado | ||
Gelman Sets the Guinness World Record for Most Morning Show Episodes Produced
Michael Seth Gelman (born August 4, 1961) is the executive producer of Live with Kelly and Ryan. He also occasionally takes small roles on television, appearing in two episodes of Kelly Ripa's ABC sitcom Hope and Faith.
Contents
- Gelman Sets the Guinness World Record for Most Morning Show Episodes Produced
- Early life and career
- Personal life
- References
Early life and career
Gelman grew up in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park, Illinois. While earning a degree in broadcast production management from the University of Colorado School of Journalism, 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 Ryan. In the 1980s he became a production assistant on Regis Philbin's local talk show, The Morning Show. Gelman worked his way to Executive Producer on The Morning Show which would eventually become Live!.
Gelman has been parodied on The Dana Carvey Show by Stephen Colbert, and on Saturday Night Live by Chris Kattan and Rachel Dratch as a flamboyant, ambiguously gay character.
Personal life
In 2000, he married Laurie Hibberd, a television personality from Canada. They have two daughters, Jamie and Misha, and live in Manhattan.