Fox 2 Anchor Taryn Asher Has Been Off the Air For More Than 2 Months. Management Isn’t Talking.

Since early last November, one of Fox 2’s star anchors, Taryn Asher, has been missing from the nightly newscast. Management has publicly kept hush about it.

Sources familiar with the situation tell Deadline Detroit that Asher has been on suspension since yelling at her co-anchor Roop Raj, news director Brooks Blanton and her producer. It’s unclear if it happened more than once.

The station’s senior vice president and general manager, Paul McGonagle,  news director Blanton, Roop Raj and Taryn Asher did not respond to requests from Deadline Detroit for comment on Wednesday.

It’s unclear when, if at all, Asher will be returning, sources say.

Meanwhile, the station has featured her at times in on-air promotions during her absence and still lists her on its webpage as the “evening anchor of FOX 2 News at 5, 6, 10, and The Edge.” Additionally, she still has a desk in the Fox 2 newsroom in Southfield.

Asher, who grew up in Fenton, had been a Fox 2 reporter and anchor before being officially named co-anchor in 2022 with Roop Raj. The two have had big shoes to fill, replacing popular veteran anchors Huel Perkins and Monica Gayle, who retired earlier that year.

A 1997 graduate of Michigan State University, Asher came to Fox 2 in 2007 from WJRT-TV in Flint, where she worked for seven years. Before that, she worked for WLNS in Lansing.