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Janice Dean has broken her silence after 22 years working for Fox, lashing out at the network in a series of X posts.
After 22 years, Dean, 56, announced her departure from the network in June and signed off for the final time in July, citing the effects on her body as she continues to navigate life with multiple sclerosis. She served as Fox News’s senior meteorologist, regularly appearing on Fox and Friends.
Dean’s series of X posts began after she responded to a fan who wrote to her saying it was a “slap in the face” to see Andrew Cuomo on Fox. Dean has openly bashed the former New York governor since the pandemic, claiming his policies were to blame for contributing to the deaths of her in-laws.
“Yup. Not surprised at all. Grateful I’m not there,” Dean responded.
“I have many, many, many stories. Sometimes I can’t believe the stuff I’ve been through,” Dean wrote in a separate post. “But I’m free now.”
Dean went on to claim that, after years of speaking on the topic, she was suddenly “banned” from talking about Cuomo and wasn’t able to post an article penned by her husband, the writer and performer Sean Newman, about the former governor’s Covid-era policies.
“I wasn’t able to post it back in April of 2025 and it broke my heart,” Dean wrote of her husband’s story.
“I felt very betrayed during this time, and admittedly I’m still bitter,” she continued in another post. “When you share something so personal to the world, and are encouraged to talk about it for years, and then one day be told you can’t, that hurt does not just magically go away.”
Dean also responded to several posts from fans. One wrote, “I bet your [Don] Imus stories could fill a book.” Replying to that, Dean claimed that the late Fox radio host Imus “used to have a loaded gun in the office and named the bullets after us.”
The Independent has contacted Fox for comment.
During her emotional farewell on Fox and Friends, Dean said: “I have shared a lot on TV in those 22 years. Maybe too much, sometimes.”
“Living with an illness, we don’t talk about this on TV, but getting up at 2:30 in the morning is a really tough thing, right? It's tough on your body. I did it for a long time, and I probably shouldn't have done it as long as I did,” she said.
Dean went on to explain during the July broadcast that while she announced her departure from the network in June, she hadn’t had an opportunity to bid farewell to the viewers.
“The things that people don’t talk about is when you leave a career, a job, there is a grieving period because this has been part of my life. 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’s been really heavy and maybe the pages will get lighter after this.
“It has been an honor of my life and I feel really blessed to have done this job.”
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