Al Roker Biography
Al Roker is a weather presenter, journalist, television personality, and author from the United States. He is currently the weather anchor on NBC’s Today and co-hosts 3rd Hour Today on occasion. His American Meteorological Society Television Seal #238 is inactive.
Al Roker Age
Roker is 67 years old as of 2021. He was born Albert Lincoln Roker Jr. on 20 August 1954 in Queens, New York, United States.
Al Roker Height
Roker stands at a height of 5 feet 8 inches (1.73 m).
Al Roker Family
Roker is the son of Isabel Roker, a Jamaican woman, and Albert Lincoln Roker Sr., a Bahamian bus driver. He wanted to be a cartoonist at first.
Al Roker Wife
Roker married WNBC producer Alice Bell in December 1984 after an early marriage and divorce. They eventually divorced. On September 16, 1995, Roker married Deborah Roberts, a fellow journalist. who has worked for both ABC and NBC as a reporter
Roker is the father of three children. In 1987, he and Bell adopted Courtney as an infant. Roker and Roberts have a daughter, Leila, who was born on November 17, 1998, and a boy, Nicholas, who was born on July 18, 2002.
Al Roker Education
Roker was raised Catholic, as was his mother, and graduated from Manhattan’s Xavier High School. He earned a B.A. in communications from the State University of New York at Oswego in 1976.
Al Roker Illness
Roker had a complete knee arthroplasty (replacement, or “TKA”) on his left knee on Thursday, June 7, 2001. Roker had gastric bypass surgery in 2002 to lose weight after failing at many diets, according to him. The New York Daily News said that he had lost 100 pounds (45 kg) since the surgery, compared to his previous weight of 320 pounds (150 kg). In 2013, Roker published Never Goin’ Back: Winning the Weight Loss Battle For Good, a book about his battle with weight loss.
He had a back procedure in 2005. In 2016, he underwent another knee replacement operation. Roker had emergency carpal tunnel surgery in October 2018. He had hip replacement surgery in September of this year. He stated he was diagnosed with prostate cancer in September 2020 in November 2020. On November 9, he underwent a successful procedure, and by November 17, he was healing at home.
Al Roker Books
Beginning in 2009, Roker and Dick Lochte co-authored a series of murder mysteries about Billy Blessing, a famous chef turned amateur detective. The Midnight Show Murders (2010), the second novel in the series, was nominated for a 2011 Nero Award. The Morning Show Murders, which was also released in 2010, was adapted into a 2018 Hallmark Movies and Mysteries film starring Holly Robinson Peete. Roker and his wife Deborah Roberts wrote the nonfiction book Been There, Done That: Family Wisdom for Modern Times, which was released in 2016.
Al Roker the Today show
Scott announced his semi-retirement from Today in early 1996. Roker was given the regular weekday weather slot on January 26, 1996. Roker’s studio remote predictions, which included interviews with guests outside and some camera time, became a mainstay. Over time, Roker performed more interviews and segments on the show. He continues Scott’s regular custom of sending birthday greetings to centenarians. Roker reported from within Hurricane Wilma in 2005. In a viral video, he is seen being blown off his feet by the strong wind and clutching to the cameraman.
Roker co-hosted Today’s Take, the third hour of Today, commencing November 12, 2012, in addition to his duties as Today Show weatherman and anchor. Today’s Take was canceled by Megyn Kelly Today in February 2017 and aired its final episode on September 22, 2017. Roker returned to co-host 3rd Hour Today after Megyn Kelly Today was canceled in 2018.
Joe Biden gave Roker a handshake during Barack Obama’s inauguration in 2013. Years later, as an NBC News reporter covering Biden’s inauguration in 2021, Roker was given a fist bump by the newly inaugurated president just as he entered the White House.
Al Roker Roker-thon
Roker went on a “Roker-thon” in November 2014, where he did a nonstop 34-hour weather forecast on NBC from 10:05 p.m. on November 12, 2014, to around 8:00 a.m. on November 14, 2014. The world-record-breaking event was a fundraiser for the Crowdrise Campaign, which benefits the military and the United Service Organizations (USO). During the week of November 6 to November 13, 2015, he held a “Roker-thon 2,” reporting weather from all 50 states and Washington, D.C. in support of Feeding America. He went on “Roker-thon 3” from March 27 to March 31, 2017, visiting colleges and setting Guinness World Records at each one, including the longest conga line on ice and the largest human letter.
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