Chris Gailus

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Chris Gailus (b. 29 October 1967) is a Canadian television news anchor.

Gailus graduated from the Broadcast Journalism Program at Mount Royal College in Calgary in 1989, where he made the Dean's List and played basketball. He began his career in Lethbridge, Alberta, and stayed there for three years. He joined Calgary's CFCN-TV in 1992, then moved on to CICT-TV in 1997.

After marrying fellow anchor Jane Carrigan, Gailus took a post anchoring the morning news on WFAA-TV in Dallas in 2000. He joined New York City's WNYW-TV in April 2003, and began serving as anchor on the station's morning program Good Day New York.

Gailus returned to Canada and joined CHAN-TV (Global BC) in Vancouver on May 1, 2006 as weekend anchor. As of September 2007, he currently anchors the Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday editions of the News Hour as long time anchor Tony Parsons has reduced his workload to just Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

Gailus stands at 6'5", and was the tallest among staff members at WNYW-TV.

Gailus appeared in the motion picture film Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer as a news anchor.

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