He’s back! Mark Kriski returns to the KTLA 5 Morning News
He’s back!
After some time away, longtime weather anchor, Mark Kriski, has returned to the KTLA 5 Morning News.
On Thursday, Mark revealed he had undergone a procedure to his right vocal cord, but the recovery ended up taking longer than expected.
“That procedure doesn’t last forever. You have to redo it. (I) went in for the second time, and the recovery is supposed to be two or three days,” he explained. “So I do it on a Friday. That was the first time. I was back on Monday, and everything’s fine. Tuesday comes, not fine. Wednesday, Thursday (my voice) still isn’t back.”
Mark’s doctor then advised he had to wait it out. What was supposed to take a couple of weeks ended up taking months. His doctors just told him to “hang in there” as nothing else could be done.
“So you had laryngitis, basically,” Jessica Holmes inquired.
“Yeah, two months, two months exactly, and now it’s back, and it feels great. It never was sore or anything. It just wasn’t full, the voice wasn’t rich,” he said.
While recovering, Mark became quite the grocery shopper at home as his wife, Jennifer Gould, was out working.
“What did you learn with all this time off?” Eric Spillman asked Mar.
“What’s on Aisle 5- left-hand side, cleaning supplies,” he joked. “The funniest thing was just on Monday, the one of the checkers (at the gocery store) said, ‘Mark, you really need to go back to work.'”
Mark thanked all the viewers who reached out and wished him all the best.
“I’m back and everything’s going to be fine,” he assured everyone. “No more of these long absences. I’m done for one. I’m saying to Eric too, I’m not ready to retire. I don’t have a plan.”
In May of 2024, he suffered a mild stroke that had him out for a few months almost a year ago.
He laughed that he could only do so much grocery shopping and that he needs to get a hobby.
Right now he’s contemplating golf and Canasta.
“I remember playing Canasta with my Grandma,” he said. “Bring it back. Let’s start a Canasta Club!”