Fox & Friends First is a breakfast television show on Fox News. It airs every weekday at Eastern/ Pacific. The two-hour-long program hosted by Carley Shimkus and Todd Piro serves as a pre-show to the network's flagship morning show Fox & Friends. The current incarnation of the show debuted on March 5, 2012, with Heather Childers and Ainsley Earhardt as the original hosts of the show. Hosts Current Carley Shimkus, co-host (2021—present) (Currently on Maternity Leave) Todd Piro, co-host (2020—present) Ashley Strohmier, substitute co-host (2023—present) Janice Dean, meteorologist (2012—present) Brooke Singman, politics reporter (2021—present) Former Ainsley Earhardt: co-host (2012—2016), left to co-host Fox & Friends (replaced by Rob Schmitt) Heather Childers: co-host (2012—2020), was pulled from the air in March 2020 (after being sick on air during the COVID-19 pandemic) Rob Schmitt: co-host (2016—2020), was absent from the show before announcing he no longer worked for the network (replaced by Todd Piro) Jillian Mele: co-host (2017—2021), left to pursue a degree in October 2021 (replaced by Carley Shimkus) Synopsis The show devotes to new developments of the latest overnight headlines and/or continuous coverage of breaking news. Due to the nature and time of the show, guests rarely appear, so it focuses more on updates of news stories with correspondents, analysis from the hosts, and politics. When Fox and Friends First launched in March 2012, the show's executive producer, Lauren Petterson, described the show to Fox News Insider this way: "Think of Fox and Friends First like Fox and Friends on steroids. It will include all of the things you love about Fox and Friends – at warp speed. A cheat sheet, if you will, to all the day's big stories…" Recurring segments/elements "Fox and Trends" – Ashley Strohmier shows the top three trending stories of the day "Weather" – Janice Dean presents the weather across the United States "Fox Business Headlines" – Cheryl Casone presents top stories that affect the markets "The Good, The Bad & The Ugly" – hosts report three headlines in the morning and rate them into a category Programming announcements and changes In 2001, Fox & Friends, which aired from to Eastern Time Zone, was expanded by an hour to start at . The new hour was branded Fox & Friends First and was co-anchored by Alisyn Camerota. In July 2008, the hour was replaced by a third hour of Fox & Friends, and Camerota was