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Jessica Tarlov is reflecting on her role on Fox News‘ The Five as the series celebrates a major milestone.
The talk show will commemorate its 15th anniversary on Tuesday, July 21. The series, which debuted in 2011, features four conservative hosts and one liberal commentator as they share their thoughts and opinions on the latest news and current events, sparking discussions and debates in the process.
Dana Perino and Greg Gutfeld have been on the series since its debut, while Tarlov was named a co-host of The Five in 2021. The show’s current cast also includes Jesse Watters and Harold Ford Jr., the latter of whom Tarlov rotates with as the show’s token liberal voice.
“I don’t think you build that without finding them in different places, right?” Tarlov said of the show’s success in an interview with People published on Monday, July 20. “Clip culture and the way that social media is consumed is both a blessing and a curse.” (Crediting Nielsen ratings and MRI-Simmons consumer data, Fox News told the outlet that The Five is currently the top daily cable news program for Democrats, earning 765,000 viewers from the party and 1 million views from independents, in addition to being successful among conservative viewers.)
“I think by finding an entrance into the show, whether it’s through me or Juan [Williams] before me and Harold, et cetera, or just having it on for a little bit, they thought like, ‘Oh, this is something I can actually jam with,’” Tarlov continued. “I have the coolest job in media for a liberal, just hands down.”
Tarlov, who joined Fox News as a contributor in 2017, told the outlet her goal is for viewers to “see how we really are mirroring the complexity of modern American political life.”
Speaking to her dynamic with her conservative colleagues, she added, “I think there’s also a level of openness amongst the co-hosts where you could actually speak to someone about something that was bothering you and we’ve had those conversations. We’re all in regular contact with each other. But when something has been upsetting, I’ve spoken to Greg about it, I’ve spoken to Jesse about it, and Greg has definitely checked in on me about how I feel about something that transpired on air.”
Tarlov went on to state, “I put in the work, I think, to understand how they see it, and likewise I think a good 99 percent of the time that’s reciprocated in understanding my perspective.”
Political differences aside, Tarlov said it matters for the show to “model something to the country that everybody in their heart of hearts wants back,” stating, “That’s some sense of normalcy in your relationships, right? That you can have that guy who is at your family dinners or your friend group, whatever it is, who just sees the world really differently to you and that you can make yourself heard and you can also make peace with them.”
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