The Boston Globe’s Nick A. Zaino III has more…

What’s appealing about Provincetown is that you never know who — or what — you might run into. The other day, we caught up with Alisyn Camerota, who, you may recall, left Boston a few years back bound for the Fox mothership. Vacationing on the outer Cape with her husband and three children, the “Fox and Friends” anchor told us she misses her old stomping grounds. (Camerota was here for a decade, first at channel 7 and then as the New England correspondent for Fox. “I miss Boston every single day, and if there was some way to get back there, I would,” she said. Camerota, who’s up and at ‘em every day at 3:15 a.m., admits she’s not wild about her schedule. “I want to shoot myself every morning,” she says, “but by 4:30 a.m., we’re having a good time.” And about Fox’s rep as the network for Republicans, she says it’s nonsense. “That’s painting with a broad brush,” she says. “We just tell stories differently than the other networks, and people have paid us the highest form of flattery by copying us.”