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

[Axekick]

republicans, sheesss...­.

[BobSF94117]

Honestly, is there ANYTHING that would be truly shocking anymore?

[freaktown]

first of all, its not shocking.

secondly, why the hell do i care if someone i've never heard of before isn't actually adopted?

[whitewaterwillie]

This is a shocking story? Having lived in rural West Virginia and Tennessee (although Wheeling ain't so rural), where your business is everyone else's business, I suppose this is a big deal. But for anyone else.... y a w n

[nedustbunny]

...and how is this news....??­?? Let's get it together folks. Report on news and try not to be the news.

This is one article I really am not interested in.

[auramac]

So?.....

[WharfRat77ch]

She's not going to claim that her father was a famous catholic who died in 1963, is she?

[ReasonIsMyReligion]

Heh.
Any record of him ever visiting Wheeling, WV?

[doschi]

Piles and piles of THIS.

Are we really the only 3 people who figured this out?

[npincus]

Jodi Applegate has been a local NYC morning news anchor for a LONG time- she is quite likable, nice, smart. I DO NOT think of her as a "FOX" anchor- she works for WNYW-TV, unfortunately a FOX property. She's not a RW tool, that's for sure.

Jodi: You go, girl.

[theidaexpress]

You mean she didn't notice the genetic similarities of her and her mother? I saw the pictures--they look very much alike. I don't believe for a moment that she didn't know about the truth. She must have questioned things at a very young age. This is only coming out now to get ratings.

http://www.theidaexpress.com

[SpinCycleRadio]

Well I am sure that the whole town had suspicions, after all young single women do not regularly adopt infants from orphanages out of the blue (and after an extended absence). But with the whole town going along with the fiction for the sake of appearances it would be very easy for a little girl to presume that it was the truth.

A bigger issue is...why is this NEWS? It isn't by any reasonable definition. it is a publicity event designed to evolke sympathy for the anchor and thus boost ratings. I don't blame the anchor, but it is a pretty typical example of how little TV news has to do with, well, news.

[roberto328]

Funny, I graduated with her from a high school in Pittsburgh and she never mentioned that she was adopted. Honest truth here....

[beetlejuiceonline]

Wow. Almost as amazing as Barack Obama's life story.

[northeast73]

WTF is so "amazing" about Obama's life story?

[dm92]

come on people - can we just dialogue here...

[timeforachangenow]

what I think is SO amazing about Obama's life story is there has been NO effort to capitalize the FACT that he is of "mixed heritage".­..

but instead there has been TREMENDOUS weight given to the side of him that is BLACK....

now if that doesn't just make you wonder???

it is like he is trying to be the BLACK messiah...­.8(

now there...SO­MEBODY had to bring this up....8)

now take your best shots at me...8)

is it timeforachangeNOW yet???

[rubberneck]

stop the presses!

[KillTheMessenger]

Shocking. I mean, how could this have been kept secret for so long! And how brave of her to tell us all these things. She is a real hero in my eyes. We should elect her president right now!

Wait... I think I am just kidding.

[ThisIsAllJustADream]

for this i clicked on the link? that's the shocking family secret? honey, in an era where we learn that fathers sometimes lock their daughters in dungeons, no one is going to get the vapors over something as mundane as this.

and, anyway, do we need to know the intimate details of this woman's life? how narcissistic of her to think we need to know this.

[robotfog]

it only means something to her FOX audience because she's a 'bastard'. It will give them a thrill.

[nerakami]

Oh the hypocrisy of it all....

Catholics, giving the appearance of being "perfect", which by the way, doesn't exist.

[longislandlol]

My Catholic girlfriend went to highschool with me-- we are both 60 now-- in her last year of highschool- she came crying to my mother and myself regarding her situation-- my mother offered to pay for a doctor to confirm the pregnancy-- and my mother (a psychologist) offered to take her to a New York City Adoption Agency (Affiliated with Catholic nuns)-- many times these pregnancies take months to discover- and my friend was lucky to graduate in her third month (without showing)-- my mom and I took her in-- she had a baby boy and he was adopted by a Catholic couple who couldn't have children-- So-- please don't criticize the Catholics -- they take care of their own... with the help of friends...

[andyboy]

And please don't eat the diasies!!!

[andyboy]

longisland,

You did get that the mother was like totally ashamed of her own flesh and blood. I hope so. For your sake. She lied to her own child her whole life.

[NoLove4HillaryAnymore]

My wife and kids are Catholics while I am none affiliated. While I respect the religion, I have difficulty to send my kids to a Catholic Elementary school because of the conduct of many of these so called Holly Fathers.

In this case, things worked out great for your friend and I am glad. But, the Scar is always going to be there for Catholics for what has been done to a lot of young people.

[ReasonIsMyReligion]

LILOL,

I am trying to put myself in your shoes.

Don't criticize Catholics? They take care of their own?

What about your girlfriend's PARENTS? Were they not Catholic? Did they take care of their own DAUGHTER and GRANDCHILD?

What about the child's DAD? Did your friend reveal to you his identity? Was he told of the "situation?"

And your mom: As a psychologist, Catholic herself or not, and recognizing that times were different, did she not think that giving the baby up for adoption might NOT be "best" for your girlfriend's mental health?

The generosity of the adoptive couple, and the Catholic-affiliated adoption agency are noteworthy -- but would their generosity be so needed were it not for the Catholic church and Catholic cultural (two different things) shame? And would that couple have been less happy with a non-matern­ally-Catho­lic baby?

Has your girlfriend expressed any regrets over the years? Does she now have a family? If so, is she raising any kids as Catholics? Do either of you know the adoptive family (and therefore have an awareness of the child, now about 43)?

I note no mention of your dad. Was his absence from your narrative integral to your mom's decisions?

Last, the generosity of your mother and you for taking your friend in and supporting her through her pregnancy cannot be overstated or overlooked.

Not critizing Catholics or the Catholic Church (too overtly). Just askin. Just baffled.