Veteran TV anchor Taryn Asher has been fired by Fox 2 Detroit, ending a months-long absence from the station that began in November 2025. Matthew Turner, a lawyer with the Southfield-based Sommers Schwartz litigation firm, confirmed the termination Tuesday after Deadline Detroit first reported the news.
Turner said Asher was suspended for “a very short time period” in November 2025 and then fired shortly afterward. He said she had not been treated fairly in terms of “assignments, scheduling, guests” compared with her male anchor colleague, and that she wanted the equal treatment she said she had received under the station’s prior management.
Asher had been off the air since November 2025, and neither she nor Fox 2 Detroit management has publicly explained why she was removed. The station changed its lead-anchoring lineup in 2022, when Asher and Roop Raj took over from Huel Perkins and Monica Gayle after both retired. In 2025, Paul McGonagle became senior vice president and general manager of Fox 2 Detroit.
The lack of any public explanation leaves the dispute unresolved in the public record, but Turner’s account makes clear the firing followed a suspension rather than a clean break. For now, the only undisputed answer is that one of Fox 2 Detroit’s best-known anchors is gone, and the station has not said why.
