Anjali Rao Biography
Anjali Rao is an Anglo-Indian award-winning global television news anchor and broadcast journalist. She also appears on The Real Housewives of Melbourne as a housewife and hosts “The Anj, Rob, and Robbo Show,” nightly news, current affairs, and entertainment show.
How old is Anjali Rao? – Age
She was born in Hong Kong. Her date of birth and age are not revealed.
Anjali Rao Family
Her father, Dr. Prithvi Raj Rao, was an Indian doctor from Bangalore who was born in Burma. When Anjali was almost five years old, he died suddenly at the age of 55. Cynthia, her mother, is from Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, but now lives in the United Kingdom.
Anjali Rao Husband
Anjali has one son from her marriage to Brett Gullan, and she lives in Melbourne.
Anjali Rao Net Worth
Anjali has an estimated net worth of $1Million.
Anjali Rao Career
She’s also the host of CNN’s flagship half-hour program, Talk Asia, which features revealing, in-depth interviews and topical discussion with leading political, business, and entertainment figures from across Asia. She has anchor news coverage from Hong Kong of the most important regional and global stories since joining CNN in January 2006, including the tsunami and earthquake in Japan, uprisings, and unrest across the Middle East, and the Christchurch, New Zealand earthquake. She has covered live events in Beijing before and during the 2008 Olympic Games, India for CNN’s “Eye On India” week of special programming, and the Philippines during a hostage crisis.
Rao worked for a decade at broadcasters in Australia, Asia, and Europe before joining CNN. She began her career as a producer and reporter at Wharf Cable Television (now i-cable) in Hong Kong and later moved to Melbourne, Australia, to work on Channel 7’s “Today Tonight” program. She went on to work as a principal anchor for Star-News Asia in Hong Kong before moving to London to anchor for Sky News and Five News.
Her story “Toxic Trail,” a “Focus Asia” piece on the effects of widespread pesticide use in southern India, won the top prize at the 2004 Amnesty International Human Rights Press Awards while she was at Star TV.
She has interviewed some of the world’s most prominent newsmakers during her time at CNN. Former US President Bill Clinton, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou, and Hong Kong SAR Chief Executive Donald Tsang are all political figures. Roger Federer, Venus Williams, Australian cricketer Shane Warne, Olympic gold medalist ice skaters Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo, and NBA basketball star Yao Ming are all from the sporting arena. Fashion designers such as Karl Lagerfeld and Jason Wu, as well as entertainers such as Rihanna and Usher, Bollywood actors Amitabh Bachchan and Shahrukh Khan, music legends Quincy Jones and Slash, and Hollywood actresses and Hollywood actress Gwyneth Paltrow.