FOX-y lady: Ten things you probably didn't know about FOX25 Morning News co-host Kim Carrigan
Too humble to share news that she is a recipient of the North Shore Arc's Distinguished Service Award for her contributions to people with developmental disabilities, Kim Carrigan, FOX25 Morning News co-host, does have fun sharing some humorous personal and professional tales.
For the third year in a row, Carrigan will be emcee and auctioneer for the North Shore Arc annual Wine Tasting and Auction, to be held Friday, March 28, 7-10 p.m. at the Lyceum Restaurant, 43 Church St., in Salem.
Read on to discover new insights on the local celebrity, and how she continues to give to the community where she happily raises her family.
#1 - She's a time traveler
For the past four years, she has had to rise at 2:15 a.m. and go to bed by 7:30 p.m. in order to be at the Dedham station by 3 a.m. for hair, makeup and news updates before going live on the FOX25 Morning News from 5-9 a.m.
"If I'm having a great day, I'm in bed at 6:30, which of course is before my kids," she says. "The tough part about it is that it's sort of like traveling through time zones, because come Friday, I'm back to a normal schedule. Fridays are bad for me. It's my favorite day of the week because I can drink coffee all afternoon, which I can't do any other day because I have to get to bed. At the same time, I'm so tired by the time my husband gets home from work, we can't do a whole lot. It's a tough schedule, but the great part of it is that I'm home before my kids get home every day. The children have two career parents, but they usually always have a parent someplace close by."
Carrigan's oldest is 11-year-old AJ, who is a fifth-grader at the middle school in Swampscott. Her little one, Grace, is 6 going on 35, she says, and a first-grader at Stanley School.
#2 - She doesn't take kindly to seawalls
Carrigan married Randy, her high school sweetheart, and they moved to the Boston area in '94 for one year before moving to Swampscott. Randy is an attorney for State Street Global Advisors in Boston, and the couple was one of the original owners of the Preston Beach condominiums, but moved shortly after having their first child.
"The seawall there made me crazy," she says of the wall that drops straight down. The Carrigans ended up moving and bought a piece of property on the other end of the beach, where they have lived happily ever since.
#3 - She knows how to pole dance