Arthel Neville Biography
Arthel Neville is a journalist and television personality from the United States working as the Fox News Channel weekend anchor based in Manhattan with co-anchor Eric Shawn. In 2010, she returned to the network as a New York-based anchor.
How old is Arthel Neville? – Age
She is 59 years old as of 20 October 2021. She was born in 1962 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
Who is Arthel Neville’s Father? – Family
She was born to Art Neville and Doris Neville. Her father is the Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, keyboardist, solo artist, and founder of the New Orleans music groups The Hawketts, The Meters, and The Neville Brothers. Aaron Neville, a Grammy Award-winning singer, is her uncle.
Arthel Neville Husband
From 1995 to 1998, she was married to former NFL linebacker Derrick Lassic. Taku Hirano, a percussionist and recording artist, has been her husband since 2001.
How much money does Arthel Neville make? – Salary
She earns an annual salary of $95,000.
Arthel Neville Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $2 million.
Arthel Neville Career
Her general assignment beat took her to the streets of Austin, covering live breaking news, politics, education, health, and human-interest stories. She was the first female African-American on-air reporter at KVUE-TV. Neville’s first job after graduation was as a reporter/anchor for WWL in New Orleans. She returned to Texas in 1988 for a one-year stint as a reporter for Houston’s KHOU-TV. Neville returned to WVUE in New Orleans as an anchor/reporter. In 1991, she was hired as the host of Extreme Close-Up, a one-on-one celebrity interview show co-produced by E! Entertainment TV.
During her three years on the show, she conducted over 200 interviews with celebrities ranging from Will Smith, Tom Cruise, and Sharon Stone to music icons David Bowie, Whitney Houston, and Sade, becoming the country’s first high-profile black female entertainment reporter. During this time, she also covered live entertainment events for the network and served as a guest host on their flagship show, Talk Soup (hosted by Greg Kinnear). She beat out over 1,000 other candidates to launch and anchor Extra for Warner Brothers Studios in 1994, becoming the first African-American woman to host a nationally syndicated entertainment news magazine program.
Neville stayed with Extra until 1996, when it was relaunched. She co-hosted The Arthel & Fred Show, a syndicated daytime entertainment news program that lasted only one season, with L.A. sportscaster Fred Roggin in 1997. A year later, Neville relocated to New York to work as a senior correspondent on Fox Network’s syndicated news magazine Fox Files, as well as an anchor, correspondent, host of Celebrity Spotlight, and weekly contributor on The O’Reilly Factor.
Neville co-hosted the Miss Teen USA pageant in 1993 with Dick Clark and the Miss Universe pageant in Manila, Philippines, with Entertainment Tonight’s Bob Goen. She has also appeared on Monk, Girlfriends, Days of Our Lives, Moesha, Cybill, Living Single, and The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. Neville joined CNN in 2002 to host TalkBack Live with Arthel Neville, becoming the news network’s first African-American woman to host her own signature show. The hybrid format show featured live interaction with audience members and guests in-studio, via satellite, phone, and internet, as well as news of the day.
She also co-anchored weekend news with Anderson Cooper from CNN’s Atlanta and New York City bureaus, as well as morning and daytime news. The University of Texas at Austin honored Neville in 2003 for her outstanding contribution to broadcast journalism. She received the Outstanding Young Texas Ex Award from the Texas Exes, which is given to four University of Texas alumnae under the age of 45 who have achieved a level of excellence in their respective fields.
Later, Neville co-hosted Fox’s nationally syndicated morning show Good Day Live with Steve Edwards and Debbie Matenopoulos, hosted Celebrity Hobbies on the DIY Network, and was a correspondent for the syndicated news magazine A Current Affair’s 2005 revival. She received a lot of praise on that show for her coverage of Hurricane Katrina in her hometown of New Orleans. She became the West Coast bureau chief and correspondent for the Fox News–produced syndicated news magazine Geraldo at Large in March 2006. In the fall of 2006, she also appeared as a guest co-host on The View.
Neville took over as the lead anchor for the Fox 5 Morning News, a four-hour weekday newscast on KSWB-TV in San Diego, on August 1, 2008. Conversations with Arthel Neville premiered on Sky TV’s My Channel in May 2009. (British Sky Broadcasting). She also covered the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina for Studio B and Fox Report from New Orleans. On October 28, 2016, Neville was honored as a Texas Exes 2016 Distinguished Alum at the University of Texas at Austin. Arthel Neville Design, her accessories line, features handbags emblazoned with her quotes promoting female empowerment. On March 5, 2021, Neville’s weekend will be held at America’s News Headquarters.
Arthel Neville Design, her accessories line, features handbags emblazoned with her quotes promoting female empowerment. On March 5, 2021, America’s News Headquarters announced that Neville’s weekend newscast with co-anchor Eric Shawn would be renamed “Fox News Live.”