Michael Gelman

Michael Seth Gelman (born August 4, 1961) is an American television producer best known as the executive producer of Live with Kelly and Mark. He also occasionally takes small roles on television, appearing in two episodes of Kelly Ripa's ABC sitcom Hope and Faith. He also has a Guinness World Record for the most morning talk show episodes produced by the same producer.

Michael Gelman
Born	Michael Seth Gelman (1961-08-04) August 4, 1961 (age 63) New York City, U.S.[1]
Alma mater	University of Colorado
Occupation(s)	Television producer, actor
Years active	1987–present
Spouse	Laurie Gelman (m. 2000)
Children	2

Early life and career

Gelman was born in Manhattan to a Jewish family, and lived in Queens, New Jersey and the Long Island town of Dix Hills through grades 1-6, before moving to the Chicago suburb of Highland Park, Illinois. After high school, he moved to Melville, New York.^[1]

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 Mark. In the 1980s he became a production assistant on Regis Philbin's local talk show, The Morning Show.^[2] Gelman worked his way up to Executive Producer on The Morning Show which would eventually become Live!.^[2]

Personal life

In 2000, he married Laurie Hibberd, a television personality from Canada who also worked in morning television as the co-host of FX's Breakfast Time with Tom Bergeron.^[3][4] They have two daughters, Jamie and Misha, and live in Manhattan.