Who is Julie Chen Moonves?- Biography
Julie Chen Moonves works for CBS as a television host, news anchor, and producer. She has hosted the American edition of the CBS reality show Big Brother since its premiere in July 2000, making her the show’s longest-serving presenter in any country. For eight seasons, Chen Moonves was a co-host and moderator on CBS’s daytime chat show The Talk. She was previously a co-anchor on CBS’s The Early Show.
How old is Julie Chen Moonves?- Age
Julie is 52 years old as of 2022. She was born Julie Suzanne Chen on January 6, 1970, in New York City, U.S.
Julie Chen Moonves Education
Chen went to junior high school in Queens’ Whitestone neighborhood. Chen moved on to St. Francis Preparatory School, where he graduated in 1987. She majored in broadcast journalism and English at the University of Southern California and graduated in 1991.
How tall is Chen?- Height
The famous Big Brother cast stands at a height of 5 ft 4 in (1.64 m).
Is Julie Chen Chinese or Japanese?- Nationality – Ethnicity
Julie is an American national and citizen by birth. She was born in New York City, United State of America. She is of mixed ethnicity/heritage/ancestry Chinese.
Who are Julie Chen’s parents? – Family
Julie Chen was born in Queens, New York City, the daughter of Chinese immigrants. Her mother Wang Ling Chen, grew up in Rangoon, Burma. Her father, David Chen, was born in China, and subsequently fled to Taiwan following the Chinese Civil War. She was born alongside her two older sisters, Gladys and Victoria.
Julie Chen Moonves Husband – Married
She met her future long-term partner, television news editor Gary Donahue, in September 1991, but their relationship did not last. Les Moonves, the president, and chief executive officer of CBS Television, was her first boyfriend. Chen and Moonves married in a private ceremony in Acapulco, Mexico, on December 23, 2004. Chen gave birth to their son, Charlie, on September 24, 2009.
Julie Chen Moonves Career
She worked as a desk assistant for ABC NewsOne for one season while still in school, interning at CBS Morning News alongside Andy Cohen, the series she would anchor a decade later. She answered phones and copied faxes for distribution. She was then promoted to a producer position for the next three years. She moved to Dayton, Ohio, to work for WDTN-TV as a local news reporter. Chen claimed on The Talk that her news director informed her during her time in Dayton that she would never be a news anchor because of her “Asian eyes.”
Chen worked alongside Bryant Gumbel, Jane Clayson, Hannah Storm, Harry Smith, Maggie Rodriguez, Erica Hill, and Rene Syler as the anchor of CBS Morning News, CBS This Morning, and later The Early Show. She was a co-host of CBS’s The Early Show before quitting the show on a daily basis but staying as a special contributing anchor until it was canceled. She worked for WCBS-TV in New York City as a reporter and weekend anchor. Julie Chen, Aisha Tyler, Sharon Osbourne, Sara Gilbert, and Sheryl Underwood co-hosted The Talk in 2012, and she has also hosted the American edition of Big Brother. Throughout the first season (2000).
When she triumphantly declared, “I am the Chenbot!” in a segment on The Early Show, she confirmed the nickname once more while discussing mugs manufactured in her likeness. Chen was the co-host and moderator of The Discussion, a CBS daytime talk show that started on October 18, 2010. [19] Chen, the show’s creator Sara Gilbert, Sharon Osbourne, Leah Remini, Holly Robinson Peete, and Marissa Jaret Winokur all appeared on the show. After a number of sexual assault claims against her husband Les Moonves surfaced, Chen declared in a taped recording on September 18, 2018, that she would not be returning to The Talk because she needed “to spend more time at home with [her] spouse.”
Julie Chen Moonves Net Worth
Julie has an estimated net worth of 30 million dollars.
