Eric Trump – What you probably didn’t know!

Eric Trump is a famous American businessman and the second son of the newly elected President of the United States. Presently, he is the Executive Vice President of The Trump Organization. He looks over all project acquisitions and the development of the company with his brother Donald Jr. and sister Ivanka Trump.

Apart from that, Eric is also the founder of the Eric Trump Foundation which is an organization that helps raise money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. He also owns the Trump Winery and also oversees and manages the 18 gold clubs owned by his father, Donald Trump.

Recently, a group of young protestors against Donald Trump’s win at the Presidential election heckled Eric and his wife while they were leaving a hotel in New York City. Protests with different “Love trumps Hate” posters and abusive swears were thrown at them.

Early life and education

Eric Trump was born on January 06, 1984 in Manhattan, New York to Donald Trump and Ivana Trump. He witnessed his parents’ divorce when he was seven years old. Eric did his schooling from the Trinity School and later graduated high school from The Hill School in the year 2002. He was part of the board in the school till 2003.

Eric later enrolled himself in the Georgetown University from where he graduated in the year 2006. He graduated with a bachelor in finance and management and joined the Trump Organisation that year itself.

Eric Trump – Wife

Eric married his long time girlfriend Lara Lea Yunaska who is an associate producer at the television news program. The couple held their marriage reception ceremony at Mar-a-Lago Club which is located in Palm Beach in Florida. The entire ceremony was held under a crystal embellished chuppah which literally took the ceremony up by a notch.

Career

Apart from being the executive vice president of the Trump Organisations, the 1.96 meter tall entrepreneur was also task advisor and the boardroom judge for the show The Apprentice which aired on NBC. He looks over the different global and domestic expansion of the organization.

Since 2006, Eric has also been overseeing the different golf courses owned by Donald Trump which has its courses spread over 15 different places from New York to Puerto Rico. His own made organisation, The Eric Trump Foundation works to raise charity for a noble cause.

Controversies

Eric was charged with fraud owing to the misuse of the funds generated by the Eric Trump Foundation. Tax records revealed that the 95% of the generated amount that was supposed to be for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital was not invested solely for the cause. Some part of it was used up in Trump Organization.

Eric has also been criticized by masses of people for his views on the se*ual harassment in the workplace following his father’s views on the same about his daughter, Ivanka Trump who said that he’d want his daughter to resign and change careers. People didn’t like the concept of all the blames to be imposed on the victim and not the harasser.

Eric Trump – Net worth

Eric Trump has an estimated net worth of $150 million.

Ernie Johnson Jr. – Know him Better!

Ernest Thorwald “Ernie” Johnson Jr. was born in August 7, 1956. He is a sports commentator for CBS Sports and Turner sports. Johnson is currently the lead TV voice for NBA for TNT and Major League Baseball on TBS.

Early life and education

Ernest Johnson has started his career in the year 1977 though he was still studying in the University of Georgia. He first joined in the radio station WAGQ-FM which is at Athens in Georgia. He continued with this job till the year 1978. He started his career in broadcasting at WMAZ-TV. There he started working as news anchor and continues with his stint till 1981. When he moved to South Carolina, he worked as a news reporter and again he came back to Georgia in the year 1982. When he came back to Georgia in the year 1982, he worked as a general assignment news reporter and in the year 1983 he became a sports reporter and anchor in the year 1983. In the year 1989, he left his job and joined the Turner Sports channel.

Johnson also features in play by play announcer for the PGA tour along with his basketball commentary sessions.  When he worked at the TBS channel, he worked as a host for the college football. In the year 2002, he was adjudged as the outstanding sports personality for the Sports Emmy awards and he partnered with Bob Costas. In the year he was again selected for this award and he broke the six year long stint of Costas in this award. From the year 2007 to 2009, Johnson and Cal Ripken Jr. worked together for the broadcast of the Major League Basketball in the TBS channel. He was the anchor of the FIFA World Cup in the year 1990 in the TNT’s coverage.

He had some more stints, also as a commentator for the Wimbledon from the year 2000 to the year 2002 and also worked as a commentator from the year 1990 to 1997.

For all shows that are related to NBA, Johnson is assisted by Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith, Shaquille O’Neal and during grand events he was assisted by Grant Hill, Chris Webber or Reggie Miller. Johnson also performs as a host of the Tuesday Fan Night in the NBA TV channel. In that show he was assisted by Greg Anthony and Webber. He often hosts the NBA TV’s show the Open court. This show is hosted by him and a panel of six other analyst of NBA from the house of TNT channel. This show is known for discussing various topics and issues related to the NBA and they also talk about the history records of the NBA. These panelist members are also known to analyze the current days play.

Wife and Children

Ernie Johnson Jr. and wife Cheryl, a licensed career counselor, live with their two biological children and four adopted children in Braselton, Georgia.

Ernie Johnson – Net Worth and Salary

The net worth of this famous sports commentator is $1.5 million. He earns a salary of $300 thousand per year. He is considered as one of the most celebrated sports commentator and play-by- play announcers in the US sportscasting circuit.

Book

He has written an autobiography called ‘Unscripted’.

Know Alan Thicke Better

Alan Thicke was one of the most loved talk and game show hosts. He made the role of Jason Seaver popular in ABC’s popular series, ‘Growing Pains’. Thicke passed away at the age of 69 on 13th December, 2016.

Early life and Education

Alan Thicke’s name was Alan Willis Jeffrey and he was born on 1st March, 1947 in Kirkland Lake, Ontario. He was born to Shirley Isobel Marie and William Jeffrey. Thicke’s mother was a nurse while his father was a stockbroker. Alan Thicke’s parents divorced in 1953 and his mother went on to marry Brian Thicke and Alan Willis Jeffrey became Alan Thicke.

He went to Elliot Lake Secondary School and went on to attend the University of Western Ontario. Thicke became the homecoming king and also was a part of the Delta Upsilon fraternity.

Career

Thicke started his career in the showbiz with the First Impressions, which was a popular game show. He was also the game show host for Animal Crack-Ups, which was a popular celebrity show. He went on to Pictionary and All New 3’s a Crowd later on. Given Thicke’s popularity and way with the words, he was asked to head the writers of Fernwood 2-Night. Thicke went on to have his own show, The Alan Thicke Show. Thicke became so popular that he was commissioned to host the American syndicated late-night show, Thicke of the Night.

Thicke also had a successful career as a song composer with his ex-wife Gloria Loring. They worked on the themes of popular series like The Facts of Life and Diff’rent Strokes. Thicke is credited with the themes of some popular television game shows as well. He worked on Celebrity Sweepstakes, The Wizard of Odds, The Diamond Head and others.

Thicke was popular thanks to his career as a game and talk show host. However, he became highly popular when he played the role of Jason Seaver, in the sitcom Growing Pains. The show became so popular that he even reprised the role of Seaver in two TV movies, The Growing Pains Movie and the Growing Pains: Return of the Seavers.

The charismatic host was well-known as Robin Scherbatsky’s (Cobie Smulders) father in the second Robin Sparkles music video in ‘How I Met Your Mother’. Thicke has made special appearances in shows like Adult Swim’s ‘Tim and Eric Awesome Show’, Great Job. Thicke also had a role in The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard.

Alan Thicke – Wife and Children

wife Tanya Callau

He married three times, the first marriage was to actress Gloria Loring, from whome he had to sons. He  was in a relationship with Kristy Swanson, when she was 19  (1988) and he was 42.  He went on to marry his second wife Gina Tolleson, Miss World 1990, in the year 1994. In the year, 1999, Thicke met Tanya Callau, in Miami. He married the model in 2005, who continued to be his wife, right till he passed away.

Alan Thicke – Net worth

He had a net worth of about $40 million.

Know Carrie Fisher Better!

Carrie Fisher was a famous American actress, producer, writer and a humorist who is the daughter of the famous celebrity duo Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds. She was famous for portraying the character of Princess Leia in the Star Wars film series. She is also famous for a number of other movies including Shampoo, The Blues Brothers, Hannah and Her Sisters, The Burbs et cetera.

Fisher was also known for her authored books, some of which were autobiographical books like that of the Postcards of the Edge and other books like the Wishful Thinking. She was also praised worldwide for being accepting and brave about her struggles with bipolar disorder and drug addiction.

Early life and education

Carrie Fisher was born as Carrie Frances Fisher on October 21, 1956 in Burbank California to famous singer Eddie Fisher and popular American actress Debbie Reynolds. She inherited an English and Scottish ancestry from her maternal side while a Jewish and Russian ancestry from her paternal side.

Even with all the fame and glamour, Fisher didn’t have the ideal childhood because her father abandoned her and her mother for another woman. Her parents legalised their divorce when she was just two years old. Her mother remarried a shoe store owner, Harry Karl who ended up utilising all of Debbie’s money without her knowing.

Fisher did her schooling from the Beverly Hills High School till she was fifteen years old but later had to drop out for appearing as a singer and debutante in the Broadway show titled Irene. She later enrolled herself in the Central School of Speech and Drama in the year 1973 where she studied for the 18 month course. Following that, in the year 1978, she got accepted in the Sarah Lawrence College but she later dropped out for filming the Star War’s series.

Husband/s and Children

  • Carrie Fisher married Paul Simon in the year 1983 but the couple later filed for a divorce in 1984.

  • Fisher was also in a relationship with Bryan Lourd from 1991 till 1994 and have a son Billie Lourd.

Career

Fisher debuted her film career in the year 1975 with the film Shampoo opposite Warren Beatty, Julie Christie and Goldie Hawn. She later signed the contract for appearing in the Star War’s series in the year 1977 in which she portrayed the role of Princess Leia alongside Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford. One thing that she has been consistent about was her expectations from the Star Wars series while many people were not that convinced with the script.

Apart from the big screen, Fisher has also appeared on a lot of TV shows, including the show Ringo in which she portrayed the character of Ringo Starr’s love interest. Her character in the movie Leave Yesterday Behind was widely praised alongside her portrayal of the character of the “vengeful ex-lover” in the movie The Blues Brothers.

Death

Carrie Fisher died on December 23, 2016 when she experienced a heart attacked while she was in a flight from London. Her mother, Debbie Reynolds breathed her last just the day after her death.

Carrie Fisher – Net Worth

Carrie Fisher had an estimated net worth of $5 million.

PewDiePie – The Most Successful YouTube Personality in the World

Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg is a popular Swedish Internet personality, web producer and comedian who is best known by the name “PewDiePie” which is the name of his YouTube channel. The most popular show of his is the Let’s Play commentaries that he does on his YouTube channel.

As of the statistics produced on August 15, 2013 PewDiePie stands out to be the most subscribed user on YouTube but was later surpassed by the YouTube spotlight channel. His channel, as of December 2016 has over 14 billion views. He refers to his fans as “bros” and the fan base as the “bro army”.

Early life and education

PewDiePie was born on October 24, 1989 in Gothenburg, Sweden to Lotta Christine Johanna and Ulf Christian Kjellberg. His father and mother both were Chief Executive Officers of companies. He has a sister named Fanny and both of them grew up in Gothenburg.

He was very much interested in the art and used to sketch video game characters during his high school days. He later graduated from the Göteborgs Högre Samskola. He pursued his degree from Chalmers University of Technology in industrial economics.

PewDiePie – Girlfriend

  • Felix lives with his long time girlfriend and an Italian YouTuber Marzia Bisognin.

Career

Pewdiepie rose to fame following his YouTube account and the main content of the videos that he posts are of video games. He mainly plays the video games and records the reaction videos simultaneously. His popular show Let’s Play is the one that helped him rise to fame.

His channel reached a mark of 5 million users on February 18, 2013 and has even featured on The New York Times. During the years of 2012 and 2013, his account was the fastest growing YouTube channel in count of the number of subscribers. He also gained around 1.3 billion views in the year 2013.

PewDiePie – Net worth

PewDiePie has an estimated net worth of $4 million.

The Rise of Erica Hill!

Erica Hill is a well-known journalist in USA. Loved for her photogenic looks, Hill has been featured in ‘People Magazine’ on the 35th spot of ‘100 Most Beautiful People’. Hill previously hosted ‘Today’ in NBC, before she declared her interest in joining HLN.

Early Life and Background

Hill was brought up in Connecticut by her single mother Jennifer. She was born on July 20th 1976. Before starting her Journalism career Hill earned a degree in Journalism from Boston University in 1998. She is known to speak French fluently.

Career

Her career started when ‘PC Week Radio’ appointed Hill as the Production Assistant in 1998.. Hill was quite appreciated for the role she played in covering 11th September 2011, Terrorist Attack’, while working for Tech TV from 2000 to 2002. In January 2003, Hill achieved a milestone in her career when CNN asked her to join as an anchor for ‘Headline News’

In 2004, Hill was recruited by CNN as a correspondent in ‘CNN Newsource’. She started her own show in 2008 called ‘Prime News with Erica’. She also contributed in the Saturday Edition of ‘The Early Show’ as a temporary anchor till 2008, six months later she was made permanent co-anchor in the show by CBS.

Hill made such an impact in her earlier shows that on 13th January 2010, she was offered to host the weekday edition on ‘The Early Show’ as well. She accepted the same and the show were launched on air. She covered for Maggie Rodriguez when she was pregnant and on leave. Hill anchored the ‘CBS Evening News’ when Scott Pelley was in Afghanistan in 2010. She was approached to co-anchor ‘CBS News Morning Program’ with Charlie Rose and Gayle King, she accepted the offer and started working on the show.

Hill took a step ahead and joined NBC in 2012 as the co-anchor for Weekend Today and a national correspondent for NBC News. Her stay in the channel made her quite popular, making her earn praise from the NBC News President Steve Capus. Hill. She stayed with NBC for a long time and finally quit her job in 2016 in order to spend more time with her family.

Recently in 2016, Hill gladly declared that HLN has offered her to join back. She also said that joining HLN back is like homecoming for her. She could not contain herself and said “I’m thrilled to come home. The opportunity to reunite with Ken and the smart, talented HLN/CNN family was one I couldn’t refuse. I am so excited to be a part of this new chapter at HLN.”

Erica Hill – Husband and Children

On 15th October 2005, the 1.67 meter tall Hill got married to David Yount in Trolley Barn in Atlanta’s Inman PArk. It was a grand ceremony of around 200 people. The couple is blessed with two sons Weston Robert Yount born on 25th Nov 2006 and Sawyer Steven Yount born on 23rd March 2010.


Erica Hill – Salary and Net Worth

Her annual salary is $700,000 with a net worth of $4 million.

 

House

She stays in a suburban house with a huge porch, in Manhattan.

Scarlett Johansson – Know her Better!

Scarlett Johansson is one of the most popular American actress, singer and model who is best known for her versatility and her astounding acting skills. She debut her film career in the year 1994 with the comedy film North and has since then been seen in a number of award winning movies.

Johansson started off with short and light-hearted roles like that in Manny & Lo but then shifted her movie genre and started appearing in much more serious and adult roles. Her skills were very much praised and applauded for her roles in Girl With a Pearl Earring and Lost in Translation for which she even won a BAFTA award for the Best Actress in a Leading Role.

She has won a number of awards including the prestigious Tony Award for Best Performance by a featured actress in a Play. As of the statistics and reports in 2016, she has been titled as the highest paid actress in North America and the tenth in the overall count with an amount of $3.3 billion from her films.

Early life and education

Scarlett Johansson was born on November 22, 1984 in New York, United States to Karsten Johansson and Melanie Sloan. Her father worked as an architect in Copenhagen, Denmark and her mother was a famous producer. She has three siblings of her own, one older sister Vanessa, one older brother Adrian and a twin brother Hunter who also appeared alongside her in the movie Manny & Lo.

Johansson didn’t have the best of childhood, growing up with “little money”. She and her twin brother attended the PS 41 Elementary School which is located in Greenwich Village in Manhattan. She later pursued her theatrical training from the Professional Children’s School in the year 2002.

Husband/s and children

  • Johansson started dating the famous Canadian Deadpool actor Ryan Reynolds in 2007 and then soon tied the knot an year later on September 27, 2008 in Tofino which is located in British Columbia. The couple later confirmed their separation on December 14, 2010 and later finalist their divorce on July 01, 2001.

  • Following years of dating and rumoured relationships, Johansson finally started dating an independent ad agency owner Romain Dauraic in 2012 and they later got married on October 01, 2014 in Philipsburg. The couple have a daughter together named Rose Dorothy Dauraic. The couple divorced on March 7, 2017.

Career

The 1. 6 meter tall Johansson started her career with the 1994 comedy movie North and has since then appeared in a number of movies till date including A Long Song For Bobby Long, The Island, The Prestige, The Other Boleyn Girl, He’s Just Not That Into You, Her, Lucy and the list goes on. She was also been attached to several advertisement campaigns of Calvin Klein, Louis Vuitton et cetera.

Apart from her acting career, Johansson has been astounding with her music career as well. She appeared in the music video of What Goes Around…. Comes Around sung by Justin Timberlake. She has released two albums of her own till date titled Anywhere I Lay My Head and Break Up.

Scarlett Johansson  –Net Worth

Scarlett Johansson has an estimated net worth of $80 million.

 House

She also owns a $2.2 million house in Hampton which is where she stays most of the time.

Know Bella Thorne Better!

Bella Thorne, or Annabella Avery Thorne is an American singer and actress. She is known for her role in The O.C, Shake it Up and Scream.

Early life and Education

Bella Thorne was born in Pembroke Pines, Florida on October 8th,1997. She was born to Tamara and Delancey Reinaldo Thorne. Thorne has three elder siblings, Kaili, Remy and Danielle. Bella Thorne was diagnosed with dyslexia when she was in first grade. She tried to attend public school, but couldn’t cope with the abuse from fellow students and was subsequently home-tutored.

Things started improving after she attended the Sylvan Learning center. She started reading and writing a grade ahead of her own. Thorne has been vocal about her struggles with dyslexia. She spoke about the issue in American Cheerleader magazine and said that she overcame her dyslexia by reading rigorously.

Career

Acting

Thorne started her career with a small role in Stuck on You. She went on to appear in popular series like The O.C and Entourage. Her major television breakthrough came in 2007 when she became a part of the second season of Dirty Sexy Money. Bella Thorne played the role of Margaux Darling. Thorne also starred in the short drama series My Own Worst Enemy along with Taylor Lautner and Christian Slater. She won the Young Artist’s Award for her portrayal of Ruth Spivey. Ruth Spivey’s role was an important one for Thorne since this was her first recurring role in a drama series.

2010 was another important year for the Bella Thorne since she replaced Jolean Wejbe to land the role of Tancy Henrickson in the fourth season of Big Love. Thorne revealed her comfort with dyslexia when she agreed to play the role of CeCe Jones in Shake It Up, by Disney Channel. CeCe was a character who had dreams of becoming a dancer in spite of struggling with dyslexia. Thorne continued with Shake It Up for all three seasons. Bella starred in the MTV series Scream where she played the role of Nina.

Music

Bella Thorne released her first single, Watch Me which reached 86 in the US Billboard Hot 100 charts and came 9 in the US Top Heatseekers charts. Hollywood Records signed a record label with Bella Thorne in 2013. She even proposed her plan of working on an album with eleven songs, which will be different from what the other artists have churned out.

Boyfriend

She  came into the open as bi***ual in 2016. The 1. 73 meter tall actress broke up with Scott Disick, ex-boyfriend of Kourtney Kardashian, on May 2017.

Bella Thorne  –  Net worth

Bella Thorne has a net worth of $2 million.

Know Ivana Trump Better!

Ivana Trump is a popular Czech-American socialite, internet personality, businesswoman and an author. She is widely and majorly known throughout the world as the first wife of the President-elect of the United States of America, Donald Trump.

Ivana is also a businesswoman who was mostly known for her clothing line that she introduced in collaboration with the William Morris Agency. The clothing line was not just for apparels but had a variety of options for jewellery, beauty products and even designer apparels which were mainly and primarily sold via the television shopping channels. She was also a former fashion model.

Early life and education

Ivana Trump was born on February 20, 1949 in Zlin, Moravia which is a small town in Czechoslovakia to Miloš Zelníček and Marie Francová. Her love and talent for skiing prevailed from a very young age and her father always used to encourage her into pursuing her dreams and to make a good career out of skiing.

Although there are little to no reports about her schooling, Ivana graduated from the Charles University which is located in Prague. It was also reported later that she didn’t continue her studies because she wanted to try out her luck with skiing and see how long it took her.

Ivana was supposedly also selected for the 1972 Winter Olympics in the category of skiing. Her specialities included downhill and salom. In 1989, the Secretary General of the Czechoslovak Olympic Committee confirmed the news that there was no one named Ivana registered under the category of skiing in the 1972 Winter Olympics.

Ivana Trump – Young Pics

Ivana Trump – Husband/s and children

Ivana Trump has been married four times till date.

  • Her first marriage was with a real estate agent, Alfred Winklmayr in the year 1971 and later separated and finalised their divorce in 1973.

  • Ivana married Donald Trump in the year 1977 in an extravagant and lavish wedding. Soon after that they were labelled as one of the most powerful couple in the New York City and handled a number of projects together, including the Grand Hyatt Hotel and Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort. The couple are proud parents of three children, Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump and Eric Trump. Following cheating rumours, the couple divorced in 1992.
  • Ivana later married Riccardo Mazzucchelli in 1995 and divorced two years later.
  • She was again married to Rossanno Rubicondi in the year 2008 and separated and finalized their divorce a year later.

Career

Ivana relocated her entire life to Canada following her separation from her first husband, Alfred. She stayed with one of her best friends, George Syrovatka. As Canada was primarily an English speaking country, she enrolled herself in a night school for learning English in the McGill University. She also started her fashion career modelling for a fur company that was based in Canada.

Ivana later moved to New York City in order to promote the Olympics. She later met Donald Trump and the two of them headed a lot of projects together under the Trump organisation.

Ivana Trump – Net Worth

Ivana Trump has an estimated net worth of $60 million.

Know Adele Arakawa Better!

Adele Arakawa a popular American news anchor for the famous television network NBC’s KUSA-TV in Denver, Colorado. She is also popularly known across America for being the very first female radio DJ in Knoxville which is located in Tennessee. She is also the female voice which is heard in the airport train system of the Denver International Airport.

Early life and education

Adele Arakawa was born as Adele Hausser on August 31, 1958 in Hawaii where she was raised for majority of her childhood before the entire family moved to Tennessee. She later started taking up college courses when she was 16 years old from the Tennessee Tech University. It was that time when she also worked as a radio disc jockey in Chilton which is located in Tennessee.

Husband and children

  • Adele married her husband Barry Tiller in the year 1977. The couple are parents to a son named Travis who was born in 1985.

Career

It was in the year 1981 that Adele took a transition from her radio jockey job and started working as a television news reporter. She started it with working at WTVK in the weather department and it was then that she started using the surname Arakawa which is also her mother’s maiden name.

She later relocated to Raleigh in North Carolina where she started working as a co-presenter in the weekday evening news shows for the WRAL TV along with Charlie Gaddy and Bob Debardelaben. She again moved with her family to Chicago where she started anchoring the weekly evening newscasts in the CBS network.

Since 1993, Adele has been anchoring the weekly evening newscasts at the KUSA-TV in Denver. Later on December 06, 2016 she announced her retirement date after 40 long years of her career. Her very last show is going to air on June 30, 2017.

Adele Arakawa – Salary and Net Worth

She earns $150,000 per year and her net worth is $1.5 million.