Debbie Matenopoulos Biography
Debbie Matenopoulos is a television broadcaster, journalist, and lifestyle expert from the United States. She took over as co-host of Home and Family in 2016, while still co-hosting The Insider.
How old is Debbie Matenopoulos? – Age
She is 48 years old as of 13 December 2022. She was born in 1974 in Richmond, Virginia, United States. Despina Matenopoulos is her given name, and she was named after her grandmother. Debbie was later anglicized from Despina.
Debbie Matenopoulos Family – Education
Matenopoulos was born of Greek origin in Richmond, Virginia. She is the daughter of hairstylist Efrosini and furniture craftsman Nicolaos T. Matenopoulos. She also has an older sister named Maria and an older brother named Ike. Matenopoulos attended John Randolph Tucker High School before moving to Virginia Commonwealth University for a year before going to New York University’s Journalism Department.
Debbie Matenopoulos Husband
Matenopoulos married Jay Faires, the president of Music at Lions Gate Entertainment and the creator of Mammoth Records, on July 5, 2003. The couple split in March 2008, and Faires filed for divorce in Los Angeles County Superior Court on November 12, 2008, citing “irreconcilable differences.” Matenopoulos and Jon Falcone married in Greece in the summer of 2013. Alexandra Kalliope Falcone, their daughter, was born on October 29, 2014.
Debbie Matenopoulos Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $5 million.
Debbie Matenopoulos The View
Matenopoulos was an MTV production assistant in 1997 when, by coincidence, he was called to audition for and was cast as the youngest co-host on Barbara Walters’ new talk show, The View, at the age of 22. On July 25, 2006, more than seven years after her last appearance on The View, she was asked back as a special guest co-host for a day, the first of many consecutive guest appearances on the show.
Debbie Matenopoulos Cookbook
It’s All Greek to Me, Debbie’s debut cookbook, was released in the spring of 2014. In 2018, a revised paperback edition was released.
Debbie Matenopoulos Career
On July 6, 2015, Matenopoulos was named the co-host of The Insider, a position she held until the show’s undoing on September 9, 2017. Debbie was in this way named as an Extraordinary Reporter for Diversion This evening. In 2016, while still co-host of The Insider, Matenopoulos became co-host of Home and Family, supplanting Cristina Ferrare.
She was ridiculed on Saturday Night Live by Ana Gasteyer, Claire Danes, Cameron Diaz, and Sarah Michelle Gellar just like a clueless ditz and at last welcomed to show up on SNL as a visitor, where she played herself. In January 1999, her agreement with the show was not recharged, and she was supplanted by Lisa Ling. Later that very year, she joined the television Guide Station as one of their most memorable live has.
Matenopoulos featured in the claymation show VIP Deathmatch as herself. In 2004, Matenopoulos filled in as a board judge on the TBS series He’s a Woman.
In January 2004, Great Day Live acquired Matenopoulous (alongside Arthel Neville) to co-have the broadly partnered program. On September 29, 2004, she was hospitalized for a physical issue that was the consequence of a trick she endeavored for a portion of Good Day Live.
The portion was centered around fireman preparing, in which she rehearsed a tumble from a three-story working at a Los Angeles fire station. She landed erroneously on an airbag and was hurried to the emergency clinic for a potential head injury. It was a contained head wound and she was briefly visually impaired. Notwithstanding monstrous advancement, including a shopping center visit highlighting Matenopoulous and Arthel Neville, Great Day Live was dropped by its partners in Walk 2005.
In January 2006, Matenopoulos joined E’s! inclusion of the Brilliant Globe Grants. In April of that very year, she became one of the three hosts on E’s! weeknight big name tattle and mainstream society series, The Day to day 10, a position she held until August 2009. While at E!, Debbie additionally facilitated Design Police, Live from Honorary pathway, and the Style Organization’s Moment Magnificence Show.
Matenopoulos has likewise been a successive supporter of VH1 specials, including I Love the 90s and I Love Toys. She has likewise been a visitor judge on RuPaul’s Race 3.
On July 6, 2015, Matenopoulos was named the co-host of The Insider, a position she held until the show’s dropping on September 9, 2017. Debbie was thusly named as an Extraordinary Journalist for Diversion This evening. In 2016, while still co-host of The Insider, Matenopoulos became co-host of Home and Family, supplanting Cristina Ferrare.