Sherri Shepherd Biography
Sherri Shepherd is an actress, comedian, author, broadcaster, podcaster, and television host from the United States. She is the current host of the daytime talk program Sherri and previously co-hosted The View from 2007 to 2014.
How old is Sherri Shepherd? – Age
She is 56 years old as of 22 April 2023. She was born in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Sherri Shepherd Family
Shepherd was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of LaVerne and church deacon Lawrence A. Shepherd. She is the middle child of three sisters.
Sherri Shepherd Husband – Children
From 2001 to 2010, Shepherd was married to Jeff Tarpley. Jeffrey, their son, was born in April 2005. Shepherd married writer Lamar Sally on December 26, 2010. The pair married in August 2011 in Chicago and divorced in May 2014. Shepherd and Sally had a baby named Lamar Jr. via surrogacy in August 2014, despite the fact that Shepherd has no biological link to the child because he was produced via a donor egg. They divorced the following year, and a Pennsylvania appeals court found that Shepherd was legally responsible for the child when she challenged the surrogacy arrangement and attempted to have her name removed from the child’s birth certificate.
Sherri Shepherd Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $13 Million.
How did Sherri lose all her weight? – Weight Loss
She not only has her own four-time Emmy-nominated talk show Sherri–a dream she’s had for 20 years–but she’s also slimmer as a result of her persistent commitment to becoming healthier. The 30 Rock star lost 46 pounds in 2020 but gained 20 pounds during COVID, as many people do. She did, however, tell individuals that after “seeing so many people impacted, health-wise, during the pandemic,” she felt she needed to make a change. She set a goal for herself to lose weight and is recording her journey on social media.
Sherri Shepherd Height
She stands at a height of 5 Feet and 1 Inch(1.55 m).
Sherri Shepherd Book
Permission Slips: Every Woman’s Guide to Giving Herself a Break, written by Shepherd, was published in October 2009. Shepherd is also a co-author of Plan D: How to Lose Weight and Beat Diabetes, which was published in 2013.
Sherri Shepherd Talk Show
Shepherd began appearing as a guest co-host on ABC’s daytime talk show The View in 2006. She joined the show as a permanent co-host in 2007, making her debut in September. Shepherd has continued to make several appearances on The View as a contributor since leaving the show in 2014.
Barbara Shepherd was chastised on The View in 2007 for her remarks about evolution and the existence of Christians in classical Greece. She also revealed that she had never voted because of her strict Jehovah’s Witness upbringing. Shepherd sparked outrage on The View in 2008 with her “flippant” remarks about abortion, which she later defined as empowering other women coping with post-abortion shame.
She earned the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host in 2009. She appeared as a celebrity participant on ABC’s Dancing with the Stars in 2012 and on Fox’s The Masked Singer in 2019. From October 2021 to June 2022, she was a guest host on The Wendy Williams Show, then she was hired to host Sherri, a new talk show.
Sherri Shepherd Career
Shepherd’s first television acting role was as Victoria Carlson in the one-season sitcom Cleghorne!, which aired on The WB in 1995. Shepherd rose to prominence as Sheila Yarborough on Jamie Foxx’s sitcom The Jamie Foxx Show from 1996 to 2001, as well as recurring roles on Suddenly Susan and Everybody Loves Raymond in the late 1990s, and as Ramona Platt in the show Less Than Perfect from 2002 to 2006. Shepherd appeared as Sandra, the girlfriend of character Lenny Davidson, on the FOX sitcom The War at Home from 2005 through 2009. She played Rhonda in the IMAX rerelease of Transformers in 2007.
She appeared as Angie, the wife of Tracy Jordan, on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock from 2007 to 2013. She appeared in Lifetime Television’s Sherri, a sitcom based on Shepherd’s life, for one season in 2009. In 2013, she returned as Daphne in the final season of How I Met Your Mother. In the same year, Shepherd appeared on Broadway in Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella musical. Shepherd starred as Anne Flatch in NBC’s mockumentary legal comedy series Trial & Error from 2017 to 2018. She will produce and star in the pilot episode of the comedy series Black Don’t Crack.