Sheinelle Jones – What makes her tick

Sheinelle Marie Jones is an American news anchor, journalist, and commentator for MSNBC and NBC News. She co-anchors Weekend Today Saturday editions and hosts MSNBC Live. She is also a correspondent for all NBC News platforms. Jones also serves as a substitute news anchor and a substitute weekday anchor for Orange Room.

Early Life

  • Sheinelle was born on April 16, 1978 in Philadelphia, PA to C. Darnell Jones II, a U.S. District Court Judge, and Sheila Kinnard.
  • She went to Wichita Brooks Middle Magnet School and later attended the Wichita Heights High School. Both of these schools are located in Wichita, Kansas.
  • Jones attended Northwestern University located in Chicago, Illinois and graduated from there.

Career

  • Jones began her career in broadcast media by working as a reporter for WICS-TV in Springfield, Illinois. She carried tripods and big broadcast cameras on her own and reported as a single person video correspondent.
  • She then got a job at FOX affiliate KOKI-TV in Tulsa, Oklahoma and later worked for Philadelphia’s FOX O&O station WTXF-TV. Sheinelle served at this station for 9 years where she co-hosted the Emmy Award-winning program ‘Good Day Philadelphia.’
  • Jones then moved to NBC and served as a news anchor for the show Weekend Today. She currently has many roles in NBC and MSNBC.

Sheinelle Jones – Husband

  • Jones married Uche Ojeh in 2007 in Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Square. Uche is a managing partner in a firm called UAO Consulting. The two of them met each other when she was in college. She was his tour guide when he was a high school senior.
  • The couple has 3 children, a son named Kayin and twins Clara Josephine and Uche.

Trivia

  • Sheinelle is a member of the sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha.
  • At 4 feet 11 inches, she is one of the shortest journalists in media.
  • Jones did not know that she was going to be a news anchor and journalist when she was a kid. However, her room had the posters of the best local news anchors in Wichita, Kansas. She even used to tell the members of her family that she would work for NBC News after she grew up. This was not the end of it; she even used to practice her skills of interviewing people when she was very young. She would interview her brothers and ask them questions like “What is your favorite kind of food?”
  • Jones’ first name is an amalgamation of her father’s and mother’s first names. ‘Shei’ was taken from her mother’s name ‘Sheila’ and ‘ell’ was taken from her father’s name ‘Darnell’ and then merged together to form her name. It may be noted that Jones’ name is pronounced without the ‘i’.
  • In April 2013, she and her co-anchor burst into laughter after finishing a satellite interview with Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte. He was there on her program to promote his E! reality show called “What Would Ryan Lochte Do?” The clip of the two of them laughing uncontrollably went viral, with over 2 million hits in just a couple of days.

Sheinelle Jones – Salary and Net Worth

The celebrated news anchor has a net worth of $23 million, with an annual salary of $1 million.

Know Katty Kay Better

Katherine Kay or Katty Kay, as everyone knows her, as is a famous British journalist. She is presently working as the lead anchor of BBC World News America. She worked as a correspondent for BBC News Washington D.C. before her current occupation. Kay is widely known for her popular blog True/Slant which she has stopped using since 2009. Apart from that she is also an active board member of the International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF).

Apart from being a famous television presenter, Kay has also published two books. Her first book, ‘Womenomics’ released on July 02, 2009, which she wrote collaborating with Good Morning America’s senior National Correspondent, Claire Shipman. Her second book, The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance—What Women Should Know was published on April 15, 2014.

Early Life and Education

Katty Kay was born on November 14, 1964, in the United Kingdom. She grew up traveling and relocating to a lot of places in the Middle East due to her father’s job. Her father was a British diplomat. Kay pursued her higher education at the University of Oxford where she majored in modern languages.

She can speak fluent French and Italian. After her graduation, Kay worked for the Bank of England which was something that she didn’t want to continue because she believed that a career in Economics was not for her and so she left to work for an aid agency located in Zimbabwe.

It was her friend Matt Frei who persuaded her to opt for a career in journalism. That’s when Kay joined BBC, Zimbabwe as a correspondent for the African section of the BBC World Service in the year 1990.

She has been posted in different parts of the world, starting from London, working for BBC World Service Radio, then to Tokyo for BBC News Television and then finally in Washington D.C. She joined The Times in 1996 but continued her journey with BBC as a freelance journalist. Apart from that, she is also part of the guest panelist on The Chris Matthews Show and Meet the Press on NBC. She also occasionally substitutes for Diane Rehm on The Diane Rehm Show which airs on NPR.

In one of her recent shows Morning Joe on MSNBC, she was asked to switch off her microphone by the former presidential candidate Ben Carson when she counteracted him about defending the sexual accusations on Trump.

Katty Kay – Husband and Children

Kay is married to Tom Carver who happens to be an ex-BBC reporter and is currently the Senior Vice President of the Control Risks Group. The couple is happily married and is the proud parents of four children.

Trivia

  • Katty Kay doesn’t believe in religion and is an agnostic.
  • Kay has done several guest appearances, including one in the Larry King Live which airs on CNN.
  • She co-presented the BBC world news bulletins that aired in around 230 public broadcast television stations throughout the entire United States.
  • Kay is very active on her social media accounts and tends to keep in touch with her fans.
  • She has written books regarding women empowerment and has been a very influential figure when it comes to fighting for equal rights for women.

Katty Kay – Salary and Net Worth

Some sources peg her salary at $245,000 with a net worth of $1 million.

Gloria Vanderbilt – Success in her Jeans!

Gloria Laura Vanderbilt is a famous American artist, fashion model turned designer, actress, socialite and author. She is a famous heiress belonging to the Vanderbilt family of New York. Vanderbilt came into the limelight in the 1930’s when she became the subject of the high-profile trial of her custody as a child, between her mother Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt and her father’s sister Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, both of whom sought the custody of a young Vanderbilt along with control of her trust fund of $5 Million. Owing to the family’s wealth and notoriety, this “trial of the century” saw her aunt accuse her mother of being an unfit parent.

As an adult, Vanderbilt gained famed for her career as a fashion designer, creating several apparel lines and launching household goods and perfumes bearing her name. She became famous for being one of the earliest designers of the blue jeans. Vanderbilt acted in a few films and television shows and acted in a few theatricals. As an author, she has penned 4 volumes of her memoirs and has written three novels, while also contributing articles to Vanity Fair, The New York Times and Elle.

Early Life and Education

Vanderbilt was born in Manhattan, New York City, on 20 February 1924 as the only child of Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt, a railroad heir and Gloria Morgan, his second wife. When she was just a year and a half old, Vanderbilt lost her father to cirrhosis. She had a half-sister named Cathleen Vanderbilt from her father’s marriage to Cathleen Neilson. Vanderbilt was raised as a Catholic. Her paternal aunt Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney filed a lawsuit against her mother for overspending the young girl’s fortune. Her aunt won her custody and her mother was only allowed closely monitored visitation.

Vanderbilt studied at different schools including Greenvale School, Long Island, Miss Porter’s School, Farmington, Connecticut and Wheeler School, Providence, Rhode Island. She attended New York City’s Art Students League which shaped her adult career. As an adult, Vanderbilt became the sole controller of her trust fund, cutting off her mother entirely, but severed ties with her, even lending support to her in her later years.

 Gloria Vanderbilt – Young Pictures

Career Rise

Vanderbilt gained recognition as an artist and held exhibitions of her shows featuring pastels, water-colours and oil paintings. Hallmark Cards, and Bloomcraft textiles licensed and adapted her art work in 1986. She also designed linens, glassware and pottery for the later. Vanderbilt had a decade long career as an actor, making her stage debut with ‘The Swan’. She made appearances on a few TV films and TV shows including ‘Studio One in Hollywood’, ‘Playhouse 90’, ‘The Dick Powell Show’, and even appeared as a guest on shows like ‘he Oprah Winfrey Show’, ‘Person to Person with Edward R. Murrow’, ‘Live! with Kelly and Michael’ etc.

Vanderbilt ventured into fashion modelling at a young age and appeared in Harper’s Bazaar Magazine at age 17 as the face of her won fragrances and clothing line and most notably inspired photographer Richard Avedon, among others. She started her career in the business of fashion in the 1970’s by collaborating with Gelntex to license her named or their scarves lines. She launched her designer jeans in association with Indian designer Mohan Murjani in 1976, which first bore her swan logo on the back pockets. The Logo became her trademark for all produced she launched in future including dress, perfumes, accessories, shoes, sheets etc. After selling the rights name in 1978 to Murjani Group, Vanderbilt launched “GV Ltd” and between 1982 to 2002, 8 perfumes were launched by L’Oreal under ‘Gloria Vanderbilt’, her brand name.  

 Gloria Vanderbilt – Husband and Children

Vanderbilt has been married four times.. At age 17, Vanderbilt married alleged mobster and acting agent Pat DiCicco in 1941 and divorced him in 1945 alleging domestic abuse. The couple did not have any children together. Vanderbilt’s second marriage was to conductor Leopold Stokowski in April 1945 and lasted until October 1955.

The marriage produced two sons; Leopold Stanislaus Stokowski and Christopher Stokowski. Vanderbilt married director Sidney Lumet in August 1956. The union did not bear any children and the couple divorced in mid-1963.

Her final marriage was with author Wyatt Emory Cooper in December 1963. The couple became parents to sons Carter Vanderbilt Cooper and CNN anchor Anderson Hays Cooper. While her husband died in 1978, her elder son, Carter committed suicide at age 23.

Vanderbilt has also been linked to Gordon Parks, Frank Sinatra, Roald Dahl, Marlon Brando and Howard Hughes.

Gloria Vanderbilt – Net Worth

Vanderbilt has an estimated net worth of approximately $200 Million.

Cenk Uygur – The Young Turk

Cenk Kadir Uygur is a renowned Turkish-American businessman, columnist, political activist and commentator who is best known for his role as the co-founder and host of his show ‘The Young Turks’, which is an American liberal socio-political commentary program, a web-series airing on YouTube. One of the best known political commentators in the United States, Uygur formerly served in the capacity of an associate attorney based in New York City and Washington D.C. When he was younger, Uygur criticized abortion, feminism and affirmative action, and identified and adopted socially conservative views. Currently, Uygur identifies himself as a progressive.

Ugyur served in the capacity of a political commentator for MSNBC, also appearing as a substitute host and contributor for the network. He served as a host for the network’s weeknight commentary show from January to June 2011, until Al Sharpton replaced him. He also served at Current TV, hosting a weeknight commentary show. He was named the chief news officer for Current TV, serving from 2012-2013. His web-series ‘The Young Turks’ was also adopted for television by Current TV under the name ‘The Young Turks with Cenk Uygur’.

Early Life and Education

Uygur was born on 21 March 1970 in Istanbul, Turkey to his parents. When Uygur turned 8, his family moved to USA and spent most of his childhood years in New Jersey. Ugyur has one sibling; a sister named Sedef Piker. Uygur, who was raised as a Muslim, faced bullying in his high school years, owing to his birth religion which prompted him to identify himself as a “fervent agnostic” and describes himself as an atheist.

Uygur attended the East Brunswick High School, New Jersey from where he graduated. He later enrolled into Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania to earn a Bachelor’s degree in management. At Wharton, Uygur was elected as the Turkish Students Association representative. He later attended Columbia Law School from here he earned a Juris Doctor Degree.

Career Rise

Ugyur embarked upon a political activism career and even wrote articles and columns for several magazines and newspapers, identifying as a conservative in his early years. Most of his articles featured in ‘The Daily Pennsylvanian’. Uygur founded ‘The Young Turks’ an entertainment show in 2002, after adopting liberal views, and used the show as a platform to air his liberal political views. The show became a huge success online and thrust Uygur into limelight. With 3 Million subscribers and 1 million views, the show is one of the biggest hits on YouTube.

Uygur was hired by Current TV in 2011 and his YouTube show was adapted to television under the name ‘The Young Turks with Cenk Uygur’. The show aired until August 2013 on television. In 2010, MSNBC employed Uygur as a substitute host and contributor and was later made the prime-time news anchor. He continued at the network for a year, until 2011. In Late 2011, Uygur launched Wolf-Pack, during the peak of the Occupy Wall Street movement, with the aim of organizing a convention to end ‘Corporate Personhood’. After President Trump’s inauguration ceremony in January 2017, Uygur formed the political action committee ‘Justice Democrats’ with the aim of bringing the attention of the Democrats to social and progressive views with the support of U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders.

Cenk Ugyur – Wife

Uygur dated marriage and family therapist Wendy Lang. After a courtship of several years, the couple announced their marriage. In July 2010, the couple became parents to their first child, a son called Prometheus Maximus Uygur. They welcomed their second child, a daughter named Joy Helena Uygur in October 2012.

Ugyur claims to be an ardent fan of the Turkish Fenerbahçe Spor Kulübü football team, that he has been following since his days in Turkey.

Net Worth

Ugyur has an estimated net worth of approximately $5 Million.

 

Katie Couric – Her Success Story

Katherine Anne “Katie” Couric is a renowned American news journalist and author who has had a distinguished career with United States’ Big Three television networks i.e. CBS, ABC and NBC. Couric was also employed by CNN for a brief period and most recently, served in the capacity of a Global News Anchor for Yahoo!. Couric started her career in the capacity of an assignment editor at CNN. She also served as the host of ‘Katie’, a daytime talk show that was produced by the Disney–ABC Domestic TV.

From 1989-2006, Couric served as a host on the NBC News network where she gained prominence for hosting ‘Today’. She joined CBS News in 2006 where she served until 2011 where she anchored CBS Evening News and served as a correspondent for ’60 Minutes’. From 2011-2014, Couric was employed by ABC News as a special correspondent and named the host of ‘Katie’. Couric has served as a reporter at all 3 news networks and was inducted into ‘Television Hall of Fame’ in 2004.

Early Life and Education

Couric was born on 7 January 1957 in Arlinton, Virginia as the daughter of part-time writer and homemaker Elinor Tullie (née Hene) and public relations executive turned news editor John Martin Couric who served at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and later Washington, D.C.’s United Press. Couric has a Jewish mother but was raised to be a Presbyterian. Couric has three siblings; a brother named John Jr., and a sisters Clara Batchelor and Emily Couric (who she lost to Pancreatic Cancer in 2001). She is of French, German, English and Scottish ancestry.

Couric was a student of Jamestown Elementary school and Williamsburg Middle School in Arlington and later attended Yorktown High School in the same city, where she was a cheerleader. She served as an intern with WAVA news radio station, Washington D.C. She later attended the University of Virginia from where she earned a bachelor’s degree in American Studies and graduated in 1979.

Career Rise

Couric started her career at ABC News Bureau in 1979 and soon moved to CNN where she served as an assignment editor. She also served at Miami’s WTVJ and NBC’s WRC-TV as a reporter. Couric joined NBC News in 1989 as a Deputy Pentagon Correspondent and served as co-host and anchor, filling in as a substitute on the shows ‘NBC News at Sunrise, ‘Sunday Today’ and ‘Today’. She was named ‘Today’s permanent co-anchor in 1991 and continued as the host for 15 years at NBC and served as the co-host of several NBC specials including the opening ceremonies of ‘Olympics Games’. Couric joined CBS in 2006 and was named the anchor and managing editor of the show ‘CBS Evening News’ where she hosted several prominent personalities like Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Condoleeza Rice etc. She covered big stories like the Haiti Earthquake, the Egyptian Revolution, the BP oil spill etc and served as a correspondent on ‘60 Minutes’ from 2006-2011.

Couric joined ABC News as a special correspondent in 2011 where she served as a co-anchor on special coverage stories such as the 9/11 attacks anniversary. She even served as a guest co-host of ‘Live! with Regis and Kelly’ and ‘The View’. She also anchored ‘Katie’s Take’ and ‘Katie’ on ABC News and its Disney arm respectively. She was hired by Yahoo! CEO Marrissa Mayer in 2013 where she served as Yahoo News’ global anchor.

Husband and Children

Couric was married to attorney John Paul “Jay” Monahan from 1989 until his death in 1998. Couric has two daughters with Monahan named Elinor Tully “Ellie” Monahan born in 1991 and Caroline “Carrie” Couric Monahan born in 1996. Couric lost her husband to Colon cancer and went on to become a spokesperson for the disease.

Couric dated financier John Molner for two years and became engaged to him in September 2013. The couple tied the knot in June 2014 in a private ceremony at her Hamptons home.

Katie Couric – Salary and Net Worth

Couric draws an annual salary of $15 Million and has an estimated net worth of approximately $75 Million.

Books

She has written books like ‘The Best Advice I’ve Ever Got’ , Sugar Solution’ ‘The Blue Ribbon Day’ and ‘The Brand New Kid’.

 

Anthony Robbins – World’s Favorite Coach!

Anthony J. Mahavoric “Tony Robbins” is a renowned American author and entrepreneur. He is also a philanthropist, a motivational speaker and a life coach who is known for his several infomercials and seminars. Robbins has written five self-help books, four of which have become best-sellers. His books include “Unlimited Powers” “Awaken the Giant Within”, “Giant Steps”, “Money: Master the Game” and “Unshakeable: Your Financial Freedom Playbook”. He is also a TEDx speaker.

As a motivational speaker and life-coach, Robbins has conducted several live seminars, receiving an approximate audience of 4 million people. He serves as the founder of multiple companies that rake in an estimated $5 billion in sales, annually. Robin’s name featured in the Power 100 list by Worth Magazine in both, 2015 and 2016. An active philanthropist, Robbins has partnered with several organizations including Feeding America.

Early Life and Education

Born as Anthony J. Mahavoric on 29 February 1960 in in North Hollywood, California, Robbins is the eldest child of his parents John Mahavoric and Nikki Robbins. He has two younger siblings, a brother named Marcus and a sister named Tara. When Robbins was 7 years old, his parents divorced and his mother remarried. He was adopted by his step-father, Jim Robbins at age 12 and chose to legally adopt his name. He is of Croatian descent.

Robbins was raised in the Californian cities of Azusa and Gendora where he attended the Glendora High School. In his senior year, Robbins was elected as the president of the student body. He suffered from a pituitary tumour as a high school student. Having led a “chaotic” and “abusive” home life, Robbins left behind his home as a 17-year-old, neither did he attend college.

Career Rise

Robbins began his career as a seventeen-year-old where he promoted seminars for author and motivational speaker Jim Rohn. He met John Grinder, the co-founder of Neurolinguistic Programming in the early 1980s and entered into a partnership with him. His first infomercial, ‘Personal Power’ was released in 1988, which gave him nationwide exposure. Robbins then sold the self-help audiotapes for Personal Power. He started his Leadership Academy seminar in 1997. and also speaks at the Learning Annex seminar circuit. He featured as one of the top speakers at the Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) conference in 2007, which went on to become the sixth most popular talk in the history of TEDx events by 2012.

Robbins is also the co-founder of Robbins-Madanes Center for Intervention along with Cloé Madanes. The organization aims to train life skills coaches that works towards helping individuals and families deal with issues like addiction. Robins along with Mia Hamm, Magic Johnson and Peter Gurber acquired the rights to the Los Angeles Football Club in 2014, which is scheduled to compete from 2018. Some of his individual clients include Bill Clinton, Hugh Jackman, Serena Williams and Pitbull and was named by Accenture in their “Top 50 Business Intellectuals” list. He was also named by Harvard Business Press in their “Top 200 Business Gurus” list.

Personal Life

Robbins has been married twice. Robbins met Rebecca “Becky” Jenkins at one of his seminars and married her in 1982. Robbins adopted Jenkins’ two children from her two previous marriages including actress Jolie Jenkins. The couple got divorced in 2001.

In 1984, Robbin’s was in a relationship with Liz Acosta and fathered a son named Jairek Robbins with her. His son also serves as a personal empowerment trainer. In October 2001, Robbins got married to Bonnie “Sage” Humphrey and resides with her in their Palm Beach, Florida home.

 

Anthony Robbins – Net worth

Robbins has an estimated net worth of approximately $500 Million.

 

Don Lemon – What makes him special?

Donald Davis “Don” Lemon is a renowned American news journalist and television news anchor who rose to prominence after being named as the host of his show ‘CNN Tonight with Don Lemon’ which is a late evening news program, airing every weekday, and focuses on the biggest news stories of the day. Lemon previously served as networks such as WYNW, KTVI and WRBC affiliated to Fox network, WCAU affiliated to NBC network. He also served at NBC and MSNBC but gained recognition nationally after being employed by CNN.

Lemon was felicitated with an Emmy Award for his report on Chicago’s real estate market. He was also honoured with an Edward R. Murrow Award for covering the capture of the sniper in the D.C. Area. Lemon also received several other awards for reports on big news stories like the Epidemic of AIDS in Africa and Hurricane Katrina. In 2009, Lemon featured in Ebony Magazine’s list of the 150 most influential people of African-American ethnicity.

Early Life and Education

Lemon was born on 1 March 1966 in the capital city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He is the only son of his mother Katherine Clark and boyfriend. He has two siblings; sisters Leisa and Yma Lemon. His parents lived together for many years but did not marry. He has French, Creole, Nigerian, Congolese and Cameroonian ancestry. Lemon described his childhood as “difficult and abusive”, having been a victim of child sexual abuse.

Lemon attended a public high school named Baker High School, Baker city, in the East Baton Rouge Parish from where he graduated. He later enrolled into Brooklyn College in Brooklyn, New York from where he majored in the field of broadcast journalism. He also studied at the Louisiana State University from where he graduated with a degree in journalism.

Career Rise

Lemon started his career in the capacity of a news assistant with the Fox affiliate WNYW in New York City, while he was a college student. He was then employed as a reporter and weekend anchor at WBRC, another Fox affiliate in Birmingham, Alabama, holding the same positions at the NBC affiliate WCAU based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He later served as an investigative reporter and anchor at Fox’s KTVI in St. Louis. As an NBC employee, Lemon served as a reporter for New York City operations at NBC News and also served as a correspondent on ‘NBC Nightly News’ and ‘Today’. He was later named anchor of ‘Weekend Today’ while also serving in the position at MSNBC. He served as a reporter and local news co-host in WMAQ-TV for NBC.

Lemon was hired by CNN in 2006 and served in the capacity of a special correspondent in his early days at the network. He has served as a live reporter on many national significance stories including the Minneapolis bridge collapse, the deaths of Whitney Houston and Michael Jackson as well as the Inaugural ceremony of the 44th U.S. President, Barack Obama, Osama Bin Laden’s death, the Colorado Theater Shooting, Charleston church shooting, the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando etc. He was named as the host of ‘CNN Tonight with Don Lemon’ in 2014 and continues to serve in the position.

Personal Life

Lemon, who came out as gay in his memoir titled ‘Transparent’ is in a relationship with choreographer John Bryne who he has been dating for a few years. As a child, Lemon was a victim of se*ual abuse but did not reveal anything about the incident until he finally told his mother when he turned 30. Lemon later spoke about it during an interview on air in September 2010.

In his memoir,  the 1.83 meter tall Lemon speaks about colorism and racial discrimination faced by the black community. A 2015 petition signed by 30,000 people demanded that CNN fire Lemon after he made a controversial remark regarding police behaviour.

Don Lemon – Salary and Net Worth

Lemon draws an annual salary of approximately $128,000 and has an estimated net worth of approximately $3 Million.

 

Chris Wallace – What makes him a journalistic diamond!

Christopher W. Wallace is a reputed American news television anchor as well as political commentator who currently serves in the capacity of a host for the Fox Broadcasting Company’s Fox News Channel show ‘Fox News Sunday’. Wallace identifies himself as a Democrat, having been registered as one for more than 2 decades. A winner of three Emmy Awards, Wallace has been serving with the Fox Network since 2003.

Wallace embarked upon a career in the field of Journalism in 1975, with a role at NBC network, and in his more than 4 decades-long career has worked with 3 out of four major networks in the United States including ABC, NBC and Fox, while he also served time with the CBS affiliated WBBM-TV in Chicago. Having moderated NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’ previously, Wallace remains the only television journalist to have hosted or moderated more than one major Sunday political talk shows airing in the morning.

Early Life and Education

Wallace was born on 12 October 1947 in Chicago, Illinois as the son of home-maker Norma Kaphan and Mike Wallace, also a television reporter best known for his work on CBS’s ’60 Minutes’. He had one older sibling, a brother named Peter Wallace, who died in a mountain climbing accident in Greece. The brothers were raised Jewish. When he was just a year old his parents divorced and his mother remarried Bill Leonard, the former President at CBS News, who exposed him to political journalism.

Wallace studied at the Hotchkiss School and later attended Harvard College where he first served as an on-air news reporter from its student radio station WHRB. Wallace then got into Yale Law School but decided to begin a journalism career by taking up a job at ‘The Boston Globe’ newspaper, which is when he decided to begin a career in television.

Career Rise

Wallace started his career in network journalism in 1975 when he was hired by NBC where he served as a reporter with New York City’s WNBC-TV for 14 years. He later transferred to the network’s bureau in Washington serving as a political commentator at NBC News. In982, he became the co-anchor of ‘The Today Show’, based in Washington. His other roles at NBC included those of chief White House correspondent from 1982 to 1989, the moderator of the show ‘Meet the Press’ from 1987-1988 as well s the anchor for ‘NBC Nightly News’; Sunday Edition. Wallace moved to ABC in 1989, where he served as a senior correspondent on the show ‘Primetime Thursday’, while also hosting ‘Nightline’ occasionally. He reported live from Tel Aviv during the 1991 Gulf War. He served at the network for another 14 years.

After joining Fox News Channel in 2003, Wallace was named the host of Fox News Sunday alongside Chris Wallace in 2003, replacing Tony Snow. He also served as an occasional guest on WRKO Boston’s ‘The Howie Carr Show’. in 2016, Wallace became the first news anchor to have been selected to moderate a general Presidential debate. Wallace, who continues to host Fox News Sunday since 2003, has been felicitated with a Dupont-Columbia Silver Baton Award along with 3 Emmy Awards.

Personal Life

In 1973, Wallace got married to Elizabeth Farrell. Together, the couple became parents to four children; sons Peter and Andrew and daughters Megan and Catherine. They couple stayed together until their divorce. Wallace then entered into a relationship with Lorraine Smothers (née Martin) who was previously married to comedian Dick Smothers. Wallace married Smothers in 1997 and became step-father to her children Sarah and Remick Smothers. Wallace and Smothers had two children together, sons James and William.

Chris Wallace – Net Worth and Salary

Wallace draws an annual salary of $1 Million and has an estimated net worth of approximately $6 Million.

 

Know Julie Roginsky Better!

Julie Roginsky is a renowned American television and news personality who serves as a TV host and commentator. She is also a strategist for the Democratic Party. Roginsky gained popularity for her work on the Fox Network’s Fox News Channel where she served in the capacity of a co-host and contributor for the show ‘Outnumbered’. She also co-hosted the network’s show ‘The Five’ occasionally. Roginsky also served in the capacity of a news contributor at the CNBC network.

A well known columnist, Roginsky has penned several articles for several reputed networks including Forbes, CNBC.com., FoxNews.com., Politico and also the Star-Ledger. In 1999, Roginsky was named as the first female manager of the Democratic Coordinated Campaign of New Jersey and was also named as New Jersey’s Communications director in the same year.

Early Life and Education

Roginsky was born on 25 April 1973 in the capital city of Moscow, Russia as the daughter of Tanya and Abram Roginsky. Roginsky;s parents have Jewish ancestry and were labelled as Soviet dissidents. In the early years of her life, Roginsky was raised by her grandparents who were initially prohibited to leave the Soviet Union. They remained Refusniks for a decade. For a brief period of time in her childhood, Roginsky lived in London, England and Paris, France before her family immigrated to USA. She is of White ethnicity

Upon immigrating to USA, Roginsky settled with her family in New York City. The family then settled in New Jersey’s Plainsboro Township where she attended Princeton Day School. After graduating high school, Roginsky moved to Boston University, Massachusetts where she earned both, her Bachelors and Masters if Arts Degree. Roginsky continues to hold her Russian citizenship.

Career Rise

Roginsky started her political career after being hired to work on Dale McCormick’ congressional campaign, working for the Political Action Committee, ‘Emily List’. She later campaigned for New Jersey’s Rep. Frank Pallone who emerged successful in his run against Mike Fergusson. In 1999, Roginsky became the first female manager of the New Jersey’s Democratic Coordinate Campaign and later served in the capacity Democratic State Committee’s communications director. She continued to serve in the role after moving to Washington D.C., working on the campaign of Jon Corzine, elected to the United States Senate. Roginsky founded a public relations and political consultation firm named Comprehensive Communications Group in 2003.

In 2004, Roginsky made her first appearance on Fox News Channel as a Democratic strategist. She also served as an on-air contributor for the CNBC network in 2009 and subsequently served as a columnist for CNBC.com. Fox News also offered her the position of an on-air contributor in 2011, where she also wrote articles for FoxNews.com. Roginsky’s television appearances include MSNBC, CNN and HLN. She resigned from Fox News on 30 June 2017.

Julie Roginsky – Pictures

Personal Life

Roginsky has never divulged any details about her romantic life. She is a mother to her biological son Zachary Peter Roginsky but has never spoken in the media about a husband, boyfriend or partner, leaving the media speculating about the child’s father. Whether she is a single mother, living with her partner, conceived the child naturally or via IVF is also not known.

Roginsky, in 2010, filed a lawsuit against Fox News, Bill Shines and Roger Ailes, the network’s CEO, in New York Supreme Court alleging sexual harassment. In the lawsuit, Roginsky has claimed that Ailes offered her a permanent position if she were to oblige with sexual favours.

Julie Roginsky – Salary and Net Worth

Her salary is an estimated $300,000 with a net worth of $2 million

Know Justin Gatlin Better!

Justin Gatlin is a famous American track athlete and field sprinter known for running the 100 and 200 meters events. In the 15 years of his career as a professional sprinter, Gatlin has emerged champion several times, winning many medals. Gatlin has run both as an individual and on relay teams and has won 8 gold medals, 6 silver medals and 2 Bronze medals across events like the Olympic Games, the World Championships, the World Indoor Championships and the IAAF World Relays.

Gatlin won gold at the 2004 Olympics in Athens in the 100 meters category. He was also the 2005 and 2017 winner of World Champion title for the same event. He was also adjudged the World Champion in 2005 for the 200 meters events. Gatlin has 5 Olympic medals with a personal best time of 9.74 seconds for 100 meters. In the overall list of male athletes in 100 meters events, Gatlin ranks fifth. Gatlin’s career is riddled with controversies, suspensions and bans which resulted in him losing credibility and incurring a dent on his career.

Early Life and Education

Gatlin was born on 10 February 1982 in Brooklyn, New York, but was raised in the city of Pensacola in Florida. He is the only son of his parents, mother Jeanette and father Willie Gatlin.

Gatlin attended Woodham High School, Pensacola where he was a star athlete and the fastest runner, responsible for helping his team win a state championship. After being spotted by coaches Bill Webb and Vince Anderson, Gatlin was offered a scholarship by University of Tennessee, Knoxville from where came as a high school 110 metre hurdler, but was trained to be a sprinter by his coaches which led him to win 6 NCAA titles consecutively, while also leading his team, ‘The Volunteers’ to 2 NCAA title wins. He left University to pursue athletics professionally in 2002.

Career Rise

At the Summer Olympics of 2004, Gatlin won the gold medal with a time of 9.85 seconds, defeating Portugal’s Francis Obikwelu and Maurice Greene. He also won bronze or 200m race at USA sweep and silver as a squad member of 4 × 100 m relay. Galtin won a gold at the 2005 IAAF World Championships in Athletics, Helsinki in 100m sprint with 9.88 seconds. He was also a winner of the Olympic-World Championship double at the 100m for men sprint, while also winning the 200m and became the second athlete in history to ever win at both 100 and 200m sprints within a single World Championship. In 2005, Gatlin equalled Asafa Powell’s world record of 9.77s in 100m at IAAF Qatar Athletic Super Grand Prix, Doha, Qatar

Gatlin failed a second drug test in April 2006 which resulted in the erasing of his record time of 9.77 seconds and an eight years ban was reduced to a fours year ban. During the span of his ban, he shifted his focus to football working with NFL Houstan Texans and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers but was unsuccessful. Gatlin returned to athletics in August 2010 but took almost two years to return to his earlier form, running the 2012 US Olympic Trials with a time of 9.80s, which became the fastest time by any athlete above 30 years of age. He went on to win a bronze at the 2012 London Olympic with a run time of 9.79s. In 2014, Galtin ran the 200 meters race at Monaco’s IAAF Diamond League with a time of 19.68s and bettered his individual best time to 9.74s at the Qatar Athletic Super Grand Prix in May 2015. At age 35, Gatlin won gold at the 2017 World Championships in the 100 meters event, defeating Olympic champion Usain Bolt.

Wife    

Gatlin has never divulged any details about his personal life in the media. Gatlin was married to a woman named Daynise who apparently divorced him for his inability to win a gold medal at the 2016 RIO Olympics. Daynise filed for divorce on the grounds of humiliation owing to Gatlin’s losses. The couple have one child together, a son named Jace.

Controversies

The 1.85 meter tall Gatlin fell into controversy in 2001 when he was banned for two years from participating in international competitions after being tested positive for using the stimulant drug amphetamines. Gatlin claimed that the said drug was a medication he had been taking since childhood to treat his attention deficit disorder. The ban was lifted in Fall 2002.

Justin Gatlin – Net Worth

Gatlin has an estimated net worth of approximately $6.3 Million.