Janice Dean
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Janice Dean is a Canadian weather personality on the Fox News Channel. She also substitutes for Fox News Live headline anchors when needed. She is known for her nickname, "The Weather Machine," coined by fellow anchor Shepard Smith. She has also been called "Janice Dean the Weather Queen."
She was born in Toronto and grew up in Ottawa. Dean began her career in Ottawa at CHEZ-FM, where she was a morning show co-host, reporter, and disc jockey. In 1997, she was an on-camera weather host at CBOT Television. Dean received an honors diploma from Algonquin College, in Radio and Television Broadcasting.
Before joining Fox in January of 2004, Dean was the news editor and entertainment reporter for Imus in the Morning. Prior to that, Dean was a weekend on-air traffic reporter for WCBS-TV in New York City. Before that, she was at CHUM Limited in Ottawa where she held numerous positions such as a morning news anchor for "Breakfast @ the New RO", producer and host of The Broad Perspective on CFRA and an anchor for KOOL-FM. From 1998 to 2001, Dean hosted various radio programs in Houston at affiliates such as KODA-FM, KKBQ-FM and KLDE-FM.
On Sunday February 11, 2007 Janice Dean became engaged. She announced on the Monday February 12 broadcast of Fox News that her boyfriend of four years, Shawn, proposed in front of the restaurant they had their first date at, wearing the same sweater he wore on that first date. Dean said she was taken by surprise.
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