Robin Roberts – The Undaunted!

Robin Roberts is popular television broadcaster. She anchors ABC’s ‘Good Morning America’ show. Robin is a woman of strong will. She is a cancer survivor. She had been diagnosed with breast cancer which she has survived. In addition, she has suffered from myelodysplastic syndrome too. Her inspiring life and intelligence have played a great role in her rise to fame.

Roberts worked as the sportscaster for ESPN for 15 years between 1990 and 2005. In 2005, she became the co-anchor on Good Morning America.

 

Early Life

She was born on 23r November, 1960. Although her birth place is Alabama, she grew up in Mississippi. For her education, she attended Southeastern Louisiana University.

In her childhood she was famous for playing basketball and tennis. She went to Pass Christian High School. She graduated as the class of 1979.

Robin has praised her parents for cultivating determination, discipline and De Lord. She is the youngest one of four siblings.

 

Robin Roberts – Career Path

She began her career serving a sports anchor local radio and television stations.

Robin has started her career in the year 1993, working as a sports reporter and anchor for WDAM-TV.  In the same year, she got involved in many other television stations as sports reporter and anchor. In addition to all these she serves as radio host for few radio stations too.

Her journey for ESPN started as a sportscaster in 1990. She became famous for her one liner ‘Go on with your bad self’. This almost worked as a tagline for her brand image.

In 1995 June, she began her work as the reporter of Good Morning America for ABC. Because of her outstanding performance as sports journalist she received Mel Greenberg Media Award. In 2005, she got promoted as the co-host of Good Morning America. She was joined by George Robert as the co-host in 2009. Together they took the show up to the top of the list.

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Among her important works, the interview of Barack Obama is one which requires mention. She has also hosted many shows which are emotionally high. The shows evolved around Mississippi Gulf Coast, which had been destroyed by the hurricane.

Hosting Academy Award was one of the major accomplishments of her career. She stepped up the stage as the hostess of the award show twice in 2009 and again in 2011. In Hannah Montana season 4 she has made a guest appearance. Her name has been included in the women basketball Hall of Fame as an acknowledgement of her contribution.

She received Peabody Award for her performance in Good Morning America. Apart from this, she also received Arthur Ashe Award in 2013.

 

Robin Roberts – Girlfriend

robin roberts girlfriend Amber Laign

Robin is into a same sex relationship. Her partner is Amber Laign, who works as a massage therapist. Theirs is a steady relationship. It started in 2005.

Robin Roberts – Net Worth and Salary

It is reported that Robin’s net worth is estimated $25 million with an annual salary upwards of $8 million.

 

House

Robin lives in a multimillion dollar house with her partner Amber. Her house is located in Manhattan’s Upper Westside.

 

Robin Roberts – Books

Three of her best-selling books include –

  • From the Heart – Seven Rules to Live By.
  • From the Heart – Eight Rules to Live By
  • Everybody’s Got Something.

 

 

Getting to know Anna Kooiman

Anna Kooiman is an American news anchor, who has risen to fame by virtue of her talent and hard work.  She served as an anchor and a reporter for Fox News Channel. Anna got involved with the Fox News in 2011. Also, she is associated with famous shows like ‘Fox & Friends’ and Fox New Extra Segments.  She quit her job and left Fox, with her husband for Sydney (Australia) on September 4, 2016.

 

Early Life

Anna was born to a business-based family on February 7, 1984. Her birthplace is Charlotte, North Carolina. Her parents own Southeast Oasis Pool and the Peppermint Forest Christmas Shop. Anna s spent her entire childhood in Charlotte. She went to Myers Park High School. She has been a sports lover from her childhood. In her school days she played soft ball regularly. She completed her high school in 2002.  Post schooling, Kooiman joined University of North Carolina and earned her Bachelor’s Degree in 2005.

 

Career path

Anna got a head start in her career right from a young age. In 2004, when she was still studying, she started working as sideline reporter for Fox Sports. Even when she was done with her study, she did not give up her work as a reporter. She continued working as a video journalist and a reporter for WWAY in Wilmington. In 2007, she left her hometown and relocated to Toledo, Ohio. Here she began working for WNWO. She served as the morning anchor for the channel. Anna also worked as a reporter alongside US Marshals and helped arresting almost 100 fugitives.

On May 2008, she returned home to Charlotte, North Carolina. Here she started her work as host and reporter for Fox News Rising. It was an important morning talk show that ran four hours in the morning prime time. The show was broadcasted by WCCB. The channel was affiliated by Fox Network back that time.

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While working for WCCB, she covered a vast array of news pieces including local news, traffic news, weather, entertainment and many other news stories. In 2011, she became a correspondent for New York based Fox network. She worked for the channel as general assignment reporter. She also covered health and fitness while working as general assignment reporter.

Currently she hosts Fox & Friends. This is a popular morning show which gets aired daily. In the year 2004, Kooiman was criticized by viewers for making a wrong comment on disappearing of flight Air Asia QZ8501. This incident took place in her Fox & Friends show.

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The 1.75 meter tall Kooiman is also a noted fitness expert. She has certificates for AFAA and Turbo Kick. She is a marathon enthusiastic. Anna has involved herself in many marathons which includes 2008 Glass City Marathon and Boston Marathon. She also helped raise money for NY Marathon. She has succeeded in raising $55,000, which she donated to Folds of Honor, a charitable organization. The trust offers financial support to special families whose members have sacrificed their lives for the country.

 

Anna Kooiman- Husband

anna kooiman husband Tim Stuckey

Anna announced the news of her engagement on her Facebook page on 2015. Her marriage to Tim Stuckey took place on July 31.

 

Anna Kooiman – salary and net worth

Her net worth is $3.8 million. She draws a salary of $350,000 on an annual basis.

 

Eric Bolling – Cash’ in with his Business Sense

Eric Thomas Boiling is an extraordinary and conservative TV personality from America. He specializes in political commentary and financial news. Boiling’s insightful analysis and definitive style of hosting has enraptured fans. Currently, he serves as the co-host of the early evening talk show named The Five, affiliated with Fox News Channel. He also takes pride as the host of the Fox Business Channel program named ‘Cash in’. He took over as the host of the show by replacing popular FBC anchor Cheryl Casone.

Early life and background

Eric Boiling was born on March 2, 1963, in Chicago, USA. He completed his grade education from Queen of All Saints Basilica. After that, he joined Loyola Academy in order to receive his high school education.

After completing his high school, Eric enrolled in Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, to pursue a B. A degree in Economics. He completed that course in the year 1984. After that, he joined Duke University as he was awarded a fellowship over there. Eric Boiling used to serve as a professional basketball player before becoming a news anchor. He had to quit pursuing his favorite sport professionally, due to a calf injury.

Career achievements

Boiling started his career as a trader in the New York Mercantile Exchange. His areas of specialization include gold, oil, natural gas and other commodities. After serving as the director of this company for five years, Eric was promoted to the board of directors of NYMEX.  In the year 2007, he received the Maybach Man of the Year Award from Trader Monthly Awards.

Bolling’s special talent in the world of finance was not missed out by CNBC; he was hired as a contributor.  He developed the show ‘Fast Money’ for the channel. In the year 2007, he joined the Fox News Network. Presently, he is serving as the financial analyst of the Fox Network. He also used to host the business show named Happy Hour, a financial program of America, which aired on the Fox Business Network.

Eric Boiling also serves as the host of the Fox News Channel show, The Five. This show is basically considered as a debate program which deals with top cultural and political issues that take place on a day to day basis. In this popular show, Eric Boiling and Bob Beckel, a political specialist, hold positions opposite to one another and dictate their opinions on economic and political issues.

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Apart from all these, Eric Boiling, one of the most talented television anchors of Fox Business News, has also appeared as a guest of many opinions related shows such as Fox & Friends, The O’Reilly Factor and Hannity.

Eric Bolling – book

He has authored a book called ‘Wake Up America’, which has been endorsed by Donald Trump.

Eric Bolling – Wife

eric bolling wife adrienne

He is married to Adrienne Bolling. They tied the wedding knot in the year 1997. The couple is blessed with one adorable son named Eric Chase.

Eric Bolling – Salary and Net Worth

This dynamic and versatile journalist has an approximated net worth of $15 million.  His salary with Fox News is $10  million per year.

George Stephanopoulos – The Success Story

George Stephanopoulos is a famous journalist. He is also a former advisor to the Democratic Party. Apart from these, he serves as the anchor for ABC news.

George’s rise in his career is a notable one. He gained fame while working as communications director for the US presidential campaign of Bill Clinton in 1992.Eventually he became the communication director of the White House. Currently he is working as the chief anchor and political correspondent for ABC News. Also, the 1.69 meter tall flamboyant anchor serves as the co-anchor of ABC news’ morning show Good Morning America. Along with this he hosts the Sunday morning show This Week. He serves as a member of Council on Foreign Relations, as well.

Early Life and Education

 George was born on 10th February 1961, in Massachusetts. Both of his parents are of Greek descent. His father is an orthodox Greek priest. His mother was the director of national news service of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. Because of his upbringing, George adopted his parents’ faith as a child.

In 1982, he got his bachelor degree in arts from Columbia University. He was the salutation of the class. He was also awarded Harry S Truman Scholarship. He was the sports broadcaster while Columbia University.

His father wanted him to be a lawyer, if he does not want to become a priest.

Career achievements

In the year 1988, George worked for Michael Dukakis presidential campaign. One of his attraction in working for this campaign was that Dukakis was a Greek- American liberal from Massachusetts.

In the year 1989, he returned to Washington and started working as an executive floor assistant to Dick Gephardt.

George enrolled as deputy campaign manager for communications  with the Democratic presidential campaign of Bill Clinton, the Arkansas governor. In the year 1992, after the victory of Bill Clinton, George became one of the most trusted aides of the new president. He started working as the senior advisor to the president for strategy and policy during the first term of the administration.

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In the year 1996, after Clinton’s reelection, George left his position due to depression, fatigue and stress.

He shifted to New York City in order to serve as a political analyst and commentator for ABC News. He published a book named All Too Human: A Political Education, which got the first position in the list of New York Times bestseller.

George started serving as the host of the ABC Network’s political program named This Week, in 2002. He held the position until 2010. After that, George moved to the anchor seat of the show in the year 2012.

 

George Stephanopoulos – Wife and children

George Stephanopoulos wife alexandra wentworth

George Stephanopoulos wife ali wentworth children

George Stephanopoulos is married to popular writer, actress and comedian Alexandra Wentworth. The couple got married in the year 2001. They are blessed with two adorable daughters named  Harper Andrea Stephanopoulos and Elliott Anastasia Stephanopoulos.

He is very active in social networking sites. George has got 1.98 million followers on Twitter since the year 2008.

 

George Stephanopoulos – Net worth and Salary

This famous TV journalist has an approximated net worth of $18 Million with an annual salary of $8 million.

 

House

Presently, Stephanopoulos and his family reside in Manhattan, New York City.

Steve Doocy – Know more about him

Stephen James Doocy, better known as Steve Doocy to his admirers, is a television personality.  He currently works for Fox News Channel. Steve’s work is not restrained to television only; he likes to put his writing skill to test time and again and is the author of two bestselling books.

 

Early Life

In Algona, Iowa, Steve was born on 19th Oct 1956, to JoAnne and James Doocy, the sales and construction professionals. Doocy’s grandfather is a descent from an Irish family which makes Steve an Irish descent too. Though Doocy was born in Iowa, he was raised in Kansas where he had attended his grade schools. Later he went to Wakefield from where he had completed his junior years and finished his high school from Clay Center Kansas. Doocy had done his graduation in journalism from University of Kansas. While studying in Kansas University, he started working as a DJ for a local radio station which was operated by the students.

 

Career

At the beginning of his career, Doocy started anchoring the morning newscaster for CBS TV, a popular New York based television channel. Previous to joining the CBS TV he served as the co-host of Wake Up America which was aired on NBC cable. Along with this he worked as the host of another popular show which is called ‘House Party with Steve Doocy’, a program aired nationally, a re-creation of 1960’s popular show ‘Art Linklette’. He also hosted a show which has been created for the children titled ‘Not Just News’.

Six years of his life he has spent working for WRC as the Emmy Award winning reporter. His early career television shows featured him as the news reporter of the channel in Kansas City. In Dick Clerk’s ‘New Year’s Rocking Eve’, he worked as the Time Square reporter on ABC.

In 1996, he switched his job and joined Fox News. While working for Fox he helped them launch their New Year’s Eve special called All American New Year, a popular show which is currently hosted by Bill Hammer and Megyn Kelly. Doocy is one of the regular hosts of Fox News Channel’s morning show for the weekdays, this he hosts with Ansley Earhardt and Brian Kilmeade.

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Books

Doocy apart from being a well-known television personality, is a bestselling author as well. He has penned down two books, both of which have reached the New York Times bestselling list. His first book, titled ‘Mr. and Mrs. Happy Handbook’ focuses on the issues of married life. While working as a reporter he has noticed that people get connected to news they can relate to. This gave him the idea of chronicling the real life experiences of people in the book.

His second book is about fatherhood  called ‘Tales from the Dad’s Side’.

 

Steve Doocy- Wife

steve doocy wife Kathy Gerrity

The 1.83 meter tall Doocy is married to Kathy Gerrity and has three children. The couple live in New Jersey, where Doocy serves as the lector of his Church following his Roman Catholic belief.

 

Steve Doocy – Net Worth and Salary

Doocy gets a salary of $500 thousand and his net worth is reportedly $2 million.

 

Know Rachel Nichols better (actress)

Rachel Emily Nichols is an actress and a model from America. She began her modeling career in the late 1990s while she was attending Columbia University situated in New York. She gradually moved to films and television acting around 2000. She was a part of a romantic drama released in 2000 and took part in one of the episodes of Sex and the City in 2002. In 2003, she has also had an important role in a movie called “Dumb and Dumber: When Harry Met Lloyd”. She was also a part of “The Inside”. Nichols became famous after working in The Amityville Horror released in 2005.

Early life and Background

Born on 8th January, 1980, to Jim and Alison Nichols, Rachel’s birthplace was Augusta in Maine. Her mothe worked as a fund-raiser and her father is a teacher at school. She has a younger sibling as well. Nichols did her schooling from Cony High School. She graduated in 1998 and took admission in Columbia University situated in New York, focusing for a career as a Wall Street analyst. She was later noticed by a modeling agency and they asked her to work in Paris. Nichols took this opportunity to pay her tuition fee with the modeling program. She has worked for brands like L’Oreal, Guess? and Abercrombie & Fitch. She knows how to speak French and loves sailing plus windsurfing.

Career

Initially she started by working in ads and had a small part as a model in a movie. She was picked for the Yahoo model of the month in 2000. In 2003 she started with Dumb and Dumberer as a newspaper reporter. In 2004 she worked for Fox Broadcasting Company who was yet to decide on the title of the movie. In 2003, she was in a Bon Jovi’s music video called All about Loving You.

She went on to do movies like The Woods, Resurrecting the Champs, P2, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra between the years 2005 to 2009.

She appeared in a movie, Conan the Barbarian in 2010 and worked in Criminal Minds for three episodes. Later she became permanent for the series. 2012 was year when she was taken in a science fiction series called Continuum. This gave her some nominations and a Constellation Award.

She starred in Rage, a 2014 release and 2016 released movie, Pandemic.

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She has been nominated for various works and has got awards for Continuum, Underwater and Debating Robert Lee.

Rachel Nichols – Husband

rachel nichols husband Scott Stuber

Rachel Nichols married Scott Stuber, a film producer, in 2008. They got married in Aspen Colorado, but got divorced only after seven months due to lot of differences.

In 2013 she announced the world about her engagement with a real estate person, Michael Kershaw. They then got married in 2014.

Controversy

On May 2016, Rachel Nichols was rumored to be pregnant, after the media spotted her with a baby bump during a dinner date nearby.

Rachel Nichols – Net Worth and Salary

According to the 2015 records, Rachel’s net worth and salary is expected to be $4 million and $470,588 respectively.

Ainsley Earhardt – Know her Better!

Ainsley Earhardt is a journalist from America who co-hosts Fox and Friends. Earhardt is a correspondent and an anchor for the Fox News Channel and is also a reporter for her own segment called Ainsley Across America on Fox’s Hannity. She has co-hosted Fox and Friends Weekend, America’s News Headquarters, All American New Year’s Eve and had been a panelist on a program called The Live Desk. Earhardt has been in a show called ‘Red Eye’.

Early Life and Background

Born on 20th September, 1976 in Spartanburg, South Carolina, Ainsley and her family soon moved to North Carolina after her birth. She went to Sharon Elementary School and grew up in North and South Carolina. Earhardt graduated in 1995 from Spring Valley High School.

She then went on to attend Florida State University (FSU) on an academic and leadership scholarship. Ainsley majored in Biology and worked for the student body as a senator in student government. Later, she shifted to University of South Carolina after making a decision to pursue a degree in Journalism. From the University of Carolina, Earhardt got a degree in Bachelors of Arts in Journalism in 1999. During her college days, she was a member of Alpha Delta Pi and Beta Epsilon sorority.

Career achievements

Being a bright student, Earhardt graduated with excellent scores in her program and was hired as a reporter for WLTX-News 19, a local CBS station in South Carolina before she graduated from University of South Carolina. For 2 years, from 2002-2004, Earhardt worked as the noon and morning anchor. She travelled to New York City to report about the South Carolina Middle School pupils donating almost half a million dollars to the firefighters after the terrorist attack on 9/11. This money was used to buy new fire trucks and replace the one that got lost in the site of World Trade Center.

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Earhardt moved to San Antonio in 2005 and hosted the weekly newscasts of KENS-TV. She hosted shows like Eyewitness News at Noon and Eyewitness News This Morning. Two years later, in 2007, she moved to New York and started working for Fox News Channel.

Ainsley received the University of South Carolina’s Young Alumni Award in the year 2007. She was also named the most Outstanding Young Alumni in the School of Mass Communication and Journalism in the same year. Some of the viewers also voted for Earhardt as the Best Personality of the Year in Columbia Metropolitan Magazine.

Controversy

In 2015, Ainsley commented about being tired of protecting the minorities of America. This statement did not go well by many people as it was taken as a racial comment.

Husband

ainsley earhardt husband will procter

Ainsley Earhardt married Will Proctor, a former Clemson University Quarterback and announced that she was pregnant via Fox and Friends First edition in June 2015. She gave birth to a beautiful daughter on 6th November 2015, named Hayden Dubose Proctor.

Ainsley Earhardt – Salary and Net Worth

Her net worth is estimated to be $5 million with an annual income of $400,000.

Book

Ainsley Earhardt released a children’s book called ‘Take Heart, My Child- A Mother’s Dream‘. This beautifully illustrated book that is co-written by her is a motivational book for kids.

Diane Sawyer – The Press Queen!

Lila Diane Sawyer or Diane Sawyer is a talented television journalist from America. She was an anchor in ABC World News, which was ABC News’ nightly flagship. She was a co-anchor of Primetime newsmagazine and Good Morning America. Earlier, she was also a member of the White House staff under U.S. President Richard Nixon and was closely associated with the president as well.

Early Life and Background

Born on 22nd December, 1945, in Glasgow, Kentucky to Jean and Erbon Powers Tom Sawyer, Diane’s ancestry includes Irish, German, English and Scottish. Jean was an elementary school teacher while Tom was a judge. She and her family soon moved to Louisville after her birth where her father became a prominent community leader and Republican politician. He became a Judge/executive of Jefferson County and soon was killed in a car accident on Louisville’s Interstate 64 in the year 1969. Diane did her schooling from Seneca High School situated in Buechel, an area in Louisville. She worked as the editor-in-chief for The Arrow, her school newspaper. She loved participating in many artistic activities but described herself as a loner and shadowed by her older sister, Linda.

Diane Sawyer got her Bachelors of Art degree in 1967, with her major as English from Wellesley College situated in Wellesley Massachusetts. She was member of a cappella-singing group called Wellesley College Blue Notes. Sawyer was a member of Phi Sigma Lecture Society as well. She went on to attend the Law School from the University of Louisville before selecting journalism as her filed.

Career

Sawyer worked as the weather forecaster for WLKY-TV in Louisville. She soon found weather forecasting quite boring. In 1970 she moved to Washington D.C and interviewed for government offices as she was unable to find work as the weather journalist. She eventually worked as the assistant to Jerry Warren. She went to California for a while to work and came back to Washington D.C. in 1978. Diane worked as the general-assignment reporter for CBS. In the year 1984, she became the first female correspondent on 60 Minutes. 60 Minutes is an investigative-television newsmagazine and it became the top 5 most-watched show while Diane’s five year presence in it. In 2000, she returned to Primetime newsmagazine called Primetime Thursday.

Diane Sawyer with Hilary Clinton

2009 was the year when Sawyer became the successor of Gibson for Good Morning America. But Sawyer left GMA and was scheduled to be a part of ABC in January 2010. However, finally she planned to join CBS Evening News as its anchor.

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Diane announced in June 2014 that she would stop working for the ABC World News in September 2014. She interviewed eminent personalities like Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Saddam Hussein and many more.

Controversy

She had a certain problem with Kris Jenner in 2015 about a comment for which she demanded an apology from him.

Husband and Boyfriends

diane sawyer husband mike nichols

Mike Nichols was the person she got married to in April 1988. They did not have any children. However Nichols (died 2014, age 83) had a son and two daughters from his previous marriage. Sawyer has had relationships with US Diplomat Richard Holbrooke and Frank Gannon, a Nixon aide.

Diane Sawyer – Net Worth and Salary

According to 2016 reports, she had a net worth of $40 million with an annual salary of $12 million.

Diane Sawyer – House

She lives in a palatial hose in Tisbury, Massachusetts , which she bought in 1995 for $5.3 million. This house was on Martha’s Vineyard built in 1950 of 17.5 acres.

Brooke Baldwin – From the CNN Newsroom

Brooke Baldwin is a renowned journalist from America, who hosts  CNN Newsroom for two hours from 2PM to 4PM on the said channel.  Her work is known throughout America as she has covered various stories and breaking news for CNN. She had once flown to Kenya, to interview Dr Auma Obama before President Barack Obama’s presidential election. Dr Auma is Barack Obama’s half-sister and Kenya is his ancestral home. Brooke has also covered the dreadful Japan earthquake, death of Osama Bin Laden and many more stories.

Early life and Background

Born on 21st July 1979 in Atlanta, Georgia, Baldwin has done her schooling from The Westminster School. Brooke loves public speaking and has some great leadership skills. Baldwin has a double graduation degree for Spanish and Journalism from University of North Carolina situated in Chapel Hill. During her undergraduate years in University of North Carolina, she also studied in Universidad Iberoamericana located at Mexico City. She gives credit to her school Westminster for teaching her things that has shaped her response in adult life.

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Career

Brooke Baldwin is a beautiful and skillful anchor who started her career at WVIR-TV situated in Charlottesville, Virginia. Later she worked as an anchor in the morning hour at WOWK-TV at West Virginia area.  She then joined as the main reporter for WTTG in Washington DC for the 10 pm show.

She joined HLN and CNN networks in the year 2008. She also hosted central time countdown from Tennessee as New Year’s Eve Coverage for CNN 2011.

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January 2012 was the time when she held a half an hour session of a music program which was named Soundcheck. It had featured Mumford & Sons, Mavis, Vilco, Janelle Monae and Ben Sollee. In the same year, she covered Connecticut shooting that took place in Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Piers Morgan and Brooke Baldwin covered the Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee celebration (2012) held in London. She was reportedly criticized for her work during the Baltimore Protests (2015) where she said that all the veterans were responsible for the unrest and violence. She later apologized for what she had said.

Brooke Baldwin – Husband

Brooke had a relationship with Jay David and later married him after dating for seven long years. Jay is veterinarian. They got engaged in 2010, followed by marriage in the same year. They do not have any children yet but are having a happy married life. They had once said that they are against the concept of divorce.

 There was also a rumor about the 1.75 meter tall Brooke getting a divorce from her husband Jay David. But they denied all such rumors by saying that they will never consider separation and divorce.

Brooke Baldwin – Net Worth and Salary

Brooke’s net worth is reportedly $1.3 million and her annual salary is estimated to be $1.5 million according to some websites.

House

She stays in a beautiful house West Village, a place in New York.

The rise of Erin Andrews!

Erin Jill Andrews or Erin Andrews is a television personality and a sportscaster from America. She presently works for Fox Sports called FOX College Football. Erin is also the host of a show, Dancing with the Stars, held on the ABC network. She is often seen on-air for many major sports related events like World Series and Super Bowl.

Early Life and Background

Born on 4th May 1978, in Lewiston, Maine, to Paula and Steven Andrews, Erin and family moved to San Antonio, Texas when she was five years old. Paula was a teacher and Steven was a TV journalist. They later moved to Tampa, Florida after 18 months when her father, a winner of 6 Emmy Awards, began working as an investigative journalist for WFLA-TV, an NBC affiliate.

Describing herself as a tomboy in her youth days, Andrews lived a life that revolved around sports. She watched NBA games with her father and particularly grew up watching Boston Celtics games. She went to Bloomingdale High School in Florida and was a member of the student government, a dance team and the National Honor Society. While in her growing up days she attended Brandon School of Dance Arts situated in Florida. She shared that she did not have any female friends during her high school days as she loved talking about sports with boys.

Andrews graduated the high school in 1996 and attended University of Florida. She graduated in 2000 with B.A in telecommunication from the university. Andrews was a member of the Zeta Tau Alpha sorority and a dance team called Florida Gators Dazzlers for 3 years, from 1997-2000. Her sister’s name is Kendra Andrews, who is a professional dancer and an actress.

Career Achievements

In 2000, she worked for Fox Sports Florida as a freelance reporter. For one year (2001-2002), she worked as a Tampa Bay Lightning reporter for Sunshine Network. From 2002-2004, she worked for the Turner South network as a reporter and studio host and covered the Atlanta Thrashers, Atlanta Hawks, Atlanta Braves.

In April 2004, she began working for ESPN in ESPN National Hockey Night. In 2011, Erin signed a contract with Reebok for endorsement purposes. Erin Andrews announced her resignation from ESPN to join Fox Sports. It was announced in February 2014, that Erin would take the place of Brooke Burke-Charvet in Dancing with the Stars, as a co-host. Later, on July 2014, it was said that Andrews would be a substitute of Pam Oliver on NFL Broadcasting crew as a sideline reporter.

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Apart from her work as a host and reporter, she has also participated in various charitable works.

Controversy

Erin was caught in a major controversy in 2008, because of Michael David Barrett in 2008. She was being secretly filmed by him in a hotel room being bare. This incident took place in Nashville Marriott. Michael had reportedly filmed her through peepholes. The video was posted on the internet and went viral.

He was sent to jail in 2010 for two and half years and fined money for his act. He served his sentence and was released in 2012. Andrews had sued the hotel staff for invasion of privacy and negligence in connection to the taping of the video. She has filed cases against Michael and was given compensation accordingly

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In 2016, she was awarded with $55 million in a civil lawsuit over this incident.

Boyfriend

erin andrews boyfriend Jarett Stoll

There is a rumor about Andrews dating Minnesota Wild hockey player Jarett Stoll.

Erin Andrews – Net Worth and Salary

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Her net worth is estimated to be between $59-60 million,  with an annual salary of $8 million. Apart from this income from her position as a sportscaster, Erin Andrews’s annual earnings include $700,000 as host for ‘Dancing with the Stars’ and $100,000 as endorsement fee, taking the overall total to $1,600,000. Before the lawsuit judgement, Erin Andrews’ net worth was $3 million.