Career
Perez was in the news business in the 1990s through the 2000s, during which he anchored and reported for WABC-television in New York City, New New York WPLG, the American Broadcasting Company television affiliate in Miami, Florida. And WSVN, the Fox television affiliate in Miami.
Before that, Perez was known as host of the nationally syndicated The Charles Perez Show.
The show was produced by Tribune Entertainment and ran from 1994 until 1996. Perez has also worked as a reporter for the Los Angeles station KCAL-television, as a producer of The Ricki Lake Show and The Montel Williams Show.
Perez was the main evening anchor at Miami"s American Broadcasting Company affiliate WPLG. He was terminated from this position on August 6, 2009, after he filed a discrimination complaint against the station, regarding supposed prejudice over what his attorney cited as the increasing public awareness of his sexual orientation that resulted in his being removed from anchoring Channel 10"s weeknight newscasts. Previously he was a weekday reporter and the weekend anchor at WABC-television in New York City until 2006.
He co-anchored the 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. weekend editions of Eyewitness News with Sandra Bookman.
Perez made an appearance during the first season of Music Television"s The Real World when he appeared on-camera as one-half of a couple with Norman Korpi. According to Perez, the two were never linked in a relationship, though the Music Television producers portrayed them as if they were. Confessions of a Gay Anchorman, Perez"s autobiography, was published in 2011.