Fox Anchor Jodi Applegate Set To Announce Shocking Family Secret ON AIR

The New York Post's Michael Starr reports that Jodi Applegate, former MSNBC and NBC personality and veteran of local morning broadcasts across the country (including New York's "Good Day New York," where she currently anchors) is set to announce a shocking family secret on the air tomorrow:

Applegate's mother, Margaret, died in 1981 of breast cancer when Jodi was only 17. When she passed away, a family secret was supposed to have gone with her.

"In late 1963, she found herself pregnant and not married, which was a real scandal in those days, especially if you were Irish-Catholic," says Applegate, especially in Wheeling, W. Va.

"She hid her pregnancy, disappeared for several months and returned with a baby she said she'd gotten at an orphanage.

"She said, 'I'm going to keep her and adopt her' . . . It was a story that allowed her to live in that town and go to that church."

Applegate grew up believing she was adopted. Eventually, her mother married, but never had any more children.

Read the entire article, including how Jodi found out the truth and why she's going public, here at the New York Post website.
Applegate is also the anchor seen publicly scolding bike thief pranksters who pretended to be injured during an on-air demonstration here.

Comments

[MacTheBlogger]

OK, this revelation has inspired me. It's time.

I am the love child of Ronald Reagan and Barbra Streisand.

Gosh, that feels good.

[Aquarius]

The people who report the news need to get over themselves and realize they ARE NOT the news, they are wannabe celebrities delivering tabloid tales similar to those trashy entertainment shows that society's bubbleheads watch and consider real news.

[booksnmore4you]

Ya'll ought be ashamed of yourself for sensationalizing this. What her mother did was, I am sure, done out of love, even if imperfect, and if you think about it, its a beautiful thing.

I say this as a person who never found out he was adopted until he was 18 years old. Really.

[reelcobra]

At least she isn't droning on and on about Reverend Wright.

Any distraction helps us play out the clock!

BHO '08!!

[NtFourSale]

Nice. Trash your dead mother. Classy lady. She'd be sorry she kept you.

[rcpmac]

Truth = Trash? you must be republican

[LairdKeir]

Is there no concept anymore of what "shocking" is, or are words simply bandied around just to pick up a few clicks?

[ibivi]

Yes, this a heart-warming mother's day story. I must say, however, that HUffPo is crammed with these types of stories more and more. Have you become the Drudge Report now? It's getting harder to tell the difference.

[ishok]

Shocking is finding out your grandfather is your father and there is a world outside your room.

[ishok]

I'm sorry but this is not "shocking". Shocking is ...her father was a Harlem Globetrotter...a French poodle...a chocolate cupcake.

[Meatball1]

Am I alone in really liking FOX NEWS?

[ishok]

...YEAH!!!

[NtFourSale]

Yes. Lighthouse Watchman on a faraway island offshore alone.

[stagebandman]

I think Jodi Applegate is a true talent. She was jerked around pretty badly by NBC, and it's a real shame that she doesn't currently have a network job. At the same time, she's not a hard news personality. I saw her many years ago when she was on the Phoenix early morning show, and if CBS wanted to up their Early Show ratings, they could do a lot worse. I would like to know Jodi, and what more could you ask from a TV personality.

As to the "big secret", it is to her and her family, and could be a good story. If she's upset and needs consolation, I'd be more than happy to have her cry on my shoulder....

[illinoisan]

I've got a much better story to tell. A friend of mine got his high school girlfriend pregnant back in 1968. The girl was sent away to have the baby and put it up for adoption and their young lives returned to normal (or as normal as teenage lives could be in the late 60s). The high school sweethearts graduated and went their separate ways.

In 1988, my friend was going through an awful divorce and in the throws of depression when out of the blue, his old girlfriend called him from California with some suprising news. She had spent the past several years tracking down the baby she had given up twenty years earlier and had located him. The long lost son had agreed to meet his birth parents so they arranged a reunion.

They met up with the son at his home in Colorado and it was a joyful event. The son was soon to have a child of his own, making my 37-year-old friend a grandfather. It was a real shot in the arm for him.

Several weeks later, my friend heard from the old girlfriend once more. She was pregnant again with his child. He asked her to marry him and start a family. She said yes.

We packed all of his things in a U-Haul and drove him across the country to his new home and his new life on the West Coast. Amazing what life can throw at you.

[rainydaypeople]

Oh my goodness! Draw the blinds! Hide the children!

[sistermoon]

And this is news because...

[khalibrrr]

Who is this lady and why should we care that she is not adopted?