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 ABCsitcomHope and Faith. He also has a Guinness World Record for the most morning talk show episodes produced by the same producer.
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]
1 2 "'Live with Kelly and Ryan' producer gives sneak peek of LI episode,” Newsday: " 'Wikipedia is incorrect,' Gelman notes of the crowdsourced online encyclopedia's assertion that he was born and raised in Highland Park, Illinois. "I was actually born at Mount Sinai hospital in Manhattan. Then we lived in Forest Hills [Queens], and in New Jersey, but when I was in first grade we moved to Dix Hills. We lived there till I was in sixth grade, then we moved to Highland Park, and at the end of my high school career moved back to Long Island, to Melville. So, really, Long Island was my home.' "
↑ Winn, Kate (14 July 2010). "Laurie Gelman: My Exclusive Momterview". This Mom Loves. I really wanted us to have a united front, which to me meant taking his name, and agreeing on how to raise the kids. We agreed they should be Jewish, so I made the jump. I think it gives them a strong sense of family when we're all united this way. It plays the biggest role around the holidays, but the Jewish faith is rooted in cultural things; it's not just a religion, so you live the Jewish life every day, even if you only go to Synagogue on holidays
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