John Quiñones Biography
John Quiones is the host of one of the most popular newsmagazine franchises in recent years, “What Would You Do?” During his 25-year career at ABC News, he has reported extensively for all programs and platforms, as well as served as anchor of “Primetime.”
John Quiñones Age
Quiñones is 69 years old as of 2021. He was born Juan Manuel “John” Quiñones on 23 May 1952 in San Antonio, Texas, United States.
John Quiñones Height
John stands at a height of 5 feet 8 inches ( 1.73m).
John Quiñones Family
Quiones is a fifth-generation San Antonian and a Mexican-American. Quiones grew up in a Spanish-speaking household and did not begin learning English until he was six years old. His father was laid off from his job as a janitor when he was 13 years old, and the family joined a caravan of migrant farmworkers traveling to Traverse City, Michigan, to harvest cherries. Later that summer, the Quiones family took the migrant route to pick tomatoes near Toledo, Ohio.
John Quiñones Education
Quiones was chosen to participate in the federal anti-poverty program Upward Bound, which prepared inner-city high school students for college while attending Brackenridge High School in San Antonio. Quiones was a member of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity Sigma Beta-Zeta as an undergraduate. Quiones earned a Master of Arts degree in journalism from Columbia University after graduating from St. Mary’s with a Bachelor of Arts degree in speech communication.
John Quiñones Wife
Quinones has had two marriages in his life. In 1988, he married Nancy Loftus in a private ceremony in West Palm Beach. He and Nancy went to the same high school and started dating soon after meeting.
Unfortunately, his first marriage ended in divorce in 2009, and he remarried Deanne White, a former model, the following year.
John Quiñones Sons
Julian Quiñones, Nicco Quiñones, and Andrea Quiñones are his three children from his first marriage. He currently lives in Manhattan, New York, with his second wife and children in his condo.
John Quiñones What Would You Do
Quiones has hosted the What Would You Do? show for all sixteen seasons. What Would You Do? (abbreviated WWYD, and formerly known as Primetime: What Would You Do? until the program’s fifth season) is an American situational hidden camera television series that has aired on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) since February 26, 2008. The show, created by Chris Whipple, follows the reactions of passing strangers as they encounter conflict or illegal activity in public, unaware that everything is staged and being recorded with hidden cameras.
John Quiñones Career
While covering the Chilean miners’ disaster in 2010, Quiones was the first journalist among thousands to get an exclusive interview with the first survivor, who spoke about their harrowing ordeal. Other notable interviews include an exclusive with singer/actor Marc Anthony, who discussed his separation and impending divorce from Jennifer Lopez for the first time.
Quiones has written extensively about a religious sect in Northern Arizona that forces its young female members to participate in polygamous marriages. Other reports include going undercover with a hidden camera to expose how clinics performed unnecessary surgical procedures as part of a large nationwide insurance scam; He accompanied a group of would-be Mexican immigrants as they attempted to enter the United States via the perilous “Devil’s Highway,” and he traveled to Israel for a CINE Award-winning report on suicide bombers.
Quiones hosted a critically acclaimed ABC News special titled “Latin Beat” in September 1999, focusing on the wave of Latin talent sweeping the United States, the impact of the recent population explosion, and how it will affect the nation as a whole. The National Council of La Raza presented him with an ALMA Award. He also contributed to ABC News’ unprecedented 24-hour, live, global Millennium broadcast, which received the George Foster Peabody Award.
Quiones’ “20/20” reports have included an in-depth look at an unprecedented lawsuit filed against the Cuban government by a woman who claims she unknowingly married a spy, as well as an exclusive interview with a Florida teenager who brutally murdered her adoptive mother. He received a Gabriel Award for his moving report in which he followed a young man to Colombia on an emotional journey to reunite with his birth mother after two decades apart. Other Central American stories include Argentina’s political and economic turmoil and El Salvador’s civil war. During the 1980s, he spent nearly a decade reporting for “World News Tonight” from Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Panama.
Quiones has received seven national Emmy Awards for his work on “Primetime Live,” “Burning Questions,” and “20/20.” He won an Emmy for his coverage of the Congo’s virgin rainforest, which also won the Ark Trust Wildlife Award, and he won another Emmy in 1990 for “Window in the Past,” a look at the Yanomamo Indians. He won a National Emmy Award for his work on the ABC documentary “Burning Questions-The Poisoning of America,” which aired in September 1988, as well as a World Hunger Media Award and a Citation from the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards for “To Save the Children,” his 1990 report on Bogota’s homeless children.
Among his many honors is the First Prize in International Reporting and the Robert F. Kennedy Prize for his article “Modern Slavery — Children Sugar Cane Cutters in the Dominican Republic.” Quiones began working for ABC News in June 1982 as a general assignment correspondent based in Miami, reporting for “World News Tonight with Peter Jennings” and other ABC News broadcasts. During the US invasion of Panama City in December 1989, he was one of the few American journalists reporting from the city.
He worked as a reporter for WBBM-TV in Chicago before joining ABC News. He received two Emmy Awards for his 1980 reporting on the plight of illegal Mexican immigrants. He worked as the news editor at KTRH radio in Houston, Texas, from 1975 to 1978. He was also an anchor-reporter for KPRC-TV at the time.
John Quiñones Net Worth
Quiñones has an estimated net worth of $2 Million.
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