He also occasionally takes small roles on television, appearing in two episodes of Kelly Ripa's ABC sitcom Hope and Faith.

Gelman was born in Manhattan to a Jewish family, and lived in Queens, New Jersey and the Long Island town of Dix Hills through grades 1-6, before moving to the Chicago suburb of Highland Park, Illinois.

[1] While earning a degree in broadcast production management from the University of Colorado School of Journalism, Gelman worked for the U.S.

Ski Association covering pre-Olympic trials all over the country as a cameraman, field producer and editor.

Gelman's most important internship came during the summer of his junior year at WABC-TV in New York, the station that would later produce Live!