« The Five » paid tribute to Bob Beckel , one of the original co-hosts of the long-running Fox News program who passed away at …
« The Five » paid tribute to Bob Beckel, one of the original co-hosts of the long-running Fox News program who passed away at age 73. « Bob was one of a kind, a political legend and a great friend to many of us at Fox and at this table. We will miss him dearly, » Dana Perino told viewers on Tuesday. « The Five » highlighted some of Beckel’s most memorable moments from his « Are you kidding me » responses to his co-hosts, his turn in the dunk tank, his love for Hostess products, his legendary Christmas lights, to the iconic swear jar. « It’s great to see those clips because the one thing that was so interesting about Bob is that he was never going to tell you that he was in shape or in good health, but for somebody who wasn’t in shape or in good health, he had more energy than anybody I knew, » Greg Gutfeld said. « Like, he was non-stop, even with his pretty bad diet and, uh, and these other things… » « What you saw is what you got. He really was made for television. You felt like you knew him… We all knew this day was gonna happen. He was gonna get there first, but man, he packed in a lot of life, » Gutfeld added. Jesse Watters admitted he didn’t have a « long overlap » with Beckel like Perino and Gutfeld but joked, « I’ve never been given the finger by a nicer guy. » « What a great dude. What great stories. We like to always say, you know, some of the best times on ‘The Five’ are in the commercial breaks and Bob in the commercial break was worse than Gutfeld, » Watters quipped. « And we will miss him, and we love him, and we’ll always remember him. » « Bob was just a great guy, » Martha MacCallum said. « He was just a wealth of information. He loved what we do, he loved politics, he loved talking about it, he loved arguing about it. And I used to love- he used to sit on a chair outside by the studio out there, and he would just sit out there on a nice day all day long, you’d come by, he’d strike up a conversation with you.
