Fox News Commentator Alan Colmes Dies at Age 66

Deadline reports that TV and radio personality Alan Colmes, perhaps best known as half of the Fox News show HANNITY & Colmes, has passed away following a brief illness. He was 66. He is survived by wife Jocelyn Elise Crowley.

His death was announced on Fox News today in a segment which was narrated by his co-host Sean Hannity, who called Colmes "one of the nicest, kindest and most generous people."

A statement on Colmes' website reads:

Alan Colmes passed away this morning after a brief illness.

He was 66-years-old.

He leaves his adoring and devoted wife, Jocelyn Elise Crowley.

He was a great guy, brilliant, hysterical, and moral. He was fiercely loyal, and the only thing he loved more than his work was his life with Jocelyn.

He will be missed.

The family has asked for privacy during this very difficult time.

Colmes was the host of The Alan Colmes Show, a nationally Syndicated talk-radio show distributed by Fox News Radio that was broadcast throughout the United States on Fox News Talk on Sirius and XM. From 1996 to 2009, Colmes served as the co-host of HANNITY & Colmes, a nightly political debate show on Fox News Channel. Beginning in 2015, Colmes supplied THE VOICE of The Liberal Panel, an animatronic robot face built into a panelled wall who spouts conventionally liberal political opinions, on Fox News Channel's The Greg Gutfeld Show.

In addition to broadcasting, Colmes ran the Liberaland blog and contributed to AOL News. He is the author of Red, White & Liberal: How Left Is Right and Right Is Wrong (2003) and Thank the Liberals for Saving America (2012).

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