Ashlan Gorse Cousteau Biography
Ashlan Gorse Cousteau is an entertainment journalist from the United States. She is well-known for her contributions to E! News, Discovery Channel, and Travel Channel.
How old is Ashlan Gorse Cousteau? – Age
She is 42 years old as of 14 December 2022. She was born in 1980 in North Carolina, United States.
Ashlan Gorse Cousteau Family
The 1988 Raleigh tornado destroyed Gorse’s home when she was seven years old. Gorse earned a BA in broadcasting and a minor in music from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Journalism.
Ashlan Gorse Cousteau Husband – Children
In October 2012, Gorse proposed to her boyfriend of two years, Philippe Cousteau Jr., in Paris. In 2010, Cousteau was speaking at an environmental event where the couple first met. On September 25, 2013, they were legally wed at the 8th arrondissement city hall in Paris, and on September 28, 2013, they have married again at the Château d’Esclimont in Saint-Symphorien-le-Château. In May 2019, Cousteau gave birth to their daughter, the couple’s first child. In 2021, their second daughter was born.
Ashlan Gorse Cousteau’s Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $400 Thousand.
Ashlan Gorse Cousteau Career
She began her professional career in New York City on the exclusive NBC page program. She has appeared on shows like Late Night with Conan O’Brien, The Today Show, and Saturday Night Live. She began her career as a production assistant at Access Hollywood in Manhattan and progressed through the ranks of field producer to reporter and segment producer for MSNBC’s weekend entertainment shows, Hot List and At the Movies. She served as a mentor on MTV’s Made.
She moved to Los Angeles in 2006 to become the editor at a large of Life & Style magazine. Since then, she has been a pop-culture and gossip expert on The O’Reilly Factor, The Today Show, CBS Early Show, CNN, TV Guide, and The Insider. She was hired by E! as the main anchor. In 2008, News Now was made a correspondent and fill-in anchor for E-News. In June 2013, News Now left the network. She has interviewed Meryl Streep, Brad Pitt, Jennifer Aniston, Robert Downey Jr., and other celebrities for her coverage of the Grammys, Oscars, Emmys, and Golden Globes.
Gorse and her husband Philippe Cousteau Jr. led an expedition to the San Juan Islands in 2014 to document the Southern Resident Orca Pod and spread awareness about it. In collaboration with the World Wildlife Fund and the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, they traveled to Nepal the following year to film Bengal tigers in their natural habitat; As a result, Takepart.com and KTLA produced Treasures of the Terai, a web series about the expedition.
She began working as a correspondent for CBS’ Entertainment Tonight in 2015 under the name Ashlan Cousteau, a position she held until 2017. For Shark Week on Discovery Channel in 2016, the Cousteaus produced and co-starred in Nuclear Sharks, an hour-long documentary about how grey reef sharks in Bikini Atoll survived nuclear testing in the 1940s and 1950s.
In Antarctica, Cousteau gave a TEDx Talk titled “Laugh, Cry, Connect:” in January 2017. From New Zealand’s Scott Base research station in the Antarctic, how entertainment can save our planet. She and Philippe Cousteau began working together as co-stars in a Travel Channel series called Caribbean Pirate Treasure in 2017. The show won the Cynopsis TV Award for the best adventure reality show. Summer 2018 is when the show’s second season will air.