Jessica Tarlov is the token liberal seat on Fox News’ panel show “The Five,” allowing her to stir debate on the program’s range of political topics. And in a recent interview, she detailed the unlikely gig as “the coolest job in media for a liberal” while also sharing that staunch Republican co-hosts like Greg Gutfeld and Jesse Watters check in on her after “upsetting” on-air disagreements.

Speaking with People in an interview published Monday, she admitted that tensions can get high during the talk show.

Tarlov, who also co-hosts the “Raging Moderates” podcast with Scott Galloway, stated that keeping conversation open, honest and uncensored has led to some on-air spats with her colleagues that leave her in the minority on the conservative news network. (She rotates in and out of “The Five” with former Tennessee Rep. Harold Ford Jr. as the token liberal representation on the panel.)

“We’re all in regular contact with each other. But when something has been upsetting, I’ve spoken to Greg [Gutfield] about it, I’ve spoken to Jesse [Watters] about it, and Greg has definitely checked in on me about how I feel about something that transpired on air,” Tarlov said.

“I think there’s also an, a level of openness amongst the co-hosts where you could actually speak to someone about something that was bothering you and we’ve had those conversations.”

The series celebrated 15 years on the air this summer and plans to mark its 15th anniversary on Tuesday. Tarlov joined the show in 2022 and stated that her goal is for audiences to see how the panel mirrors the complexity of modern American political life.

“I put in the work, I think, to understand how they see it, and likewise I think a good 99% of the time that’s reciprocated in understanding my perspective,” she said.

According to Nielsen data, “The Five” has become the top cable news program in the country, averaging more than 3.8 million viewers a show. Fox News estimated that Democrats account for roughly 765,000 viewers for the 5 p.m. daily cable news program, and independents make up for about 1 million viewers.

“I think by finding an entrance into the show, whether it’s through me or Juan [Williams] before me and Harold, et cetera, or just having it on for a little bit, they thought like, ‘Oh, this is something I can actually jam with,’” Tarlov said.

Peter Lassally, a producer who worked on such iconic late night shows as “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson” and “Late Night With David Letterman,” has died at the age of 93.

Born to a Jewish family in 1932 Germany, Lassally fled with his family to the Netherlands in the late ’30s before World War II. There, he would attend the same school as Anne Frank, a classmate of his sister’s. Lassally, his mother and his sister were eventually sent to Westerbork Nazi concentration camp and Theresienstadt Ghetto in the early 1940s. They would move to New York in 1947 after surviving the horrors of the Holocaust.

“For Peter, family represented something profoundly meaningful,” his family said in a statement. “Having survived the Holocaust and rebuilt his life in America, he never took for granted the opportunity to create the kind of loving, secure family that war had threatened to destroy.”

Known as “The Host Whisperer,” Lassally started his career as an NBC page before working for Arthur Godfrey in the mid-1950s. In the 1970s, he hopped onto “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson,” rising through the ranks to become an executive producer. He would start working with David Letterman after Carson’s 1992 retirement, joining shows like “Late Night With David Letterman” and “Late Show With David Letterman.”

“Watching his children build lives of their own and seeing his grandchildren grow into adulthood brought him immense joy,” the family said in a statement. “He delighted in family gatherings, thoughtful conversations and the simple pleasure of being together. Those closest to him knew that no professional accomplishment ever meant more to him than the people around his own table.”

Lassally would work with and shepherd a number of other late night figures over the course of his career, including Jon Stewart and Craig Ferguson, before retiring in 2015.

Lassally is survived by his daughter with Alice Lassally, Andrea Gibbin, and son Tom Lassally, as well as his four grandchildren: Walker Gibbin, Eloise Gibbin, Annabel Lassally and Owen Lassally.

“Peter built a life defined not by the horrors he endured as a child, but by resilience, generosity, curiosity and optimism,” the family said in a statement. “Friends often remarked on his wit, humility and remarkable ability to make others feel at ease. His life stood as a testament to both survival and reinvention—an immigrant who escaped unimaginable persecution and went on to influence one of America’s most beloved cultural institutions.”