Dave Briggs, co-anchor of Fox and Friends Weekend , has announced that he will leave the show at the end of 2012. The 36-year-old anchor announced the news in an emotional farewell on the December 22 edition of the popular show.
Briggs declared his departure from the Fox show while sat alongside co-hosts Alisyn Camerota and Clayton Morris, who gifted their colleague with a variety of loudly colored socks and a framed caricature drawing of all three anchors. Swallowing back tears at various points in his farewell, Briggs told Camerota and Morris:
“I’m not going away! Just going somewhere else in the New Year. I will miss the two of you more than I can speak. You’ve made me better and you made the show better. You’ve been my work family!”
Briggs, who joined Fox News in 2008 as weekend co-anchor, added:
“It’s been the best show, best job of my life. I will never have a job I enjoy more, no matter where I go.”
According to TVNewser , Briggs’ contract came to an end “by mutual consent.” Morris joked that Briggs was “replacing Bill O’Reilly.”
Before he joined Fox, Briggs was a sports anchor for Comcast SportsNet New England , and also anchored at WHDH in Boston and KOKI in Tulsa. His future position within Fox is currently unknown.
Are you a regular viewer of Fox and Friends ? Do you think the show will miss Dave Briggs from its “curvy couch”? Let us know in the comments and check out Dave Briggs’ announcement in the footage below: