Debbie Matenopoulos Biography
Debbie Matenopoulos is a television broadcaster, journalist, and lifestyle expert from the United States. Matenopoulos took over as co-host of Home and Family in 2016, while still co-hosting The Insider.
Debbie Matenopoulos Age
Matenopoulos is 47 years old as of 2021. She was born Despina Matenopoulos on 13 December 1974 on Richmond, Virginia, United States.
Debbie Matenopoulos Height
Matenopoulos stands at a height of 5 feet 7 inches (1.75 m).
Debbie Matenopoulos Family
Matenopoulos 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. Her given name is Thespina Matenopoulos, which she inherited from her grandmother. Debbie was later anglicized from Thespina.
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. Faires filed for divorce in Los Angeles County Superior Court on November 12, 2008, after the couple separated in March 2008. referring to “irreconcilable conflicts.”
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 Education
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. She was a member of the Alpha Omicron Pi women’s fraternity. She interned at MTV while attending NYU. She quickly rose through the ranks, eventually becoming the story coordinator for MTV News: Unfiltered.
Debbie Matenopoulos Salary
Debbie earns an annual salary of $76,186.
Debbie Matenopoulos Net Worth
Matenopoulos has an estimated net worth of $5 million.
Debbie Matenopoulos Career
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. Ana Gasteyer, Claire Danes, Cameron Diaz, and Sarah Michelle Gellar mocked her on Saturday Night Live as an uninformed ditz, and she was eventually invited to attend as a guest on SNL, where she portrayed herself. Her contract with the show was not renewed in January 1999, and she was replaced by Lisa Ling. Later that year, she became one of the TV Guide Channel’s initial on-air hosts.
Matenopoulos portrayed herself in the claymation show Celebrity Deathmatch. Matenopoulous (together with Arthel Neville) joined Good Day Live in January 2004 to co-host the nationally syndicated show. On September 29, 2004, she was hospitalized for an injury sustained while doing a stunt for a portion of Good Day Live. The episode was about firefighter training, and she performed a three-story building fall in a Los Angeles fire station. She fell on an airbag wrongly and was transported to the hospital for a probable head injury. She was temporarily blind due to a closed head wound. Good Day Live was terminated by its syndicators in March 2005, despite extensive promotion, including a mall tour featuring Matenopoulous and Arthel Neville.
Matenopoulos joined Ecoverage !’s of the Golden Globe Awards in January 2006. She joined Eweeknight !’s celebrity gossip and pop culture series, The Daily 10, as one of three hosts in April of that year, a role she kept until August 2009. Debbie also presented Fashion Police, Live from the Red Carpet, and the Style Network’s Instant Beauty Pageant while at E!
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. Matenopoulos has also appeared on other VH1 specials, including I Love the 90s and I Love Toys. She has also appeared as a judge on RuPaul’s Drag Race 3. 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.
Matenopoulos was named co-host of The Insider on July 6, 2015, a role she held until the show’s discontinuation on September 9, 2017. Debbie was then hired as an Entertainment Tonight Special Correspondent. Matenopoulos took over as co-host of Home and Family in 2016, while still co-hosting The Insider.
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