Meredith Vieira Biography
Meredith Vieira American broadcast journalist and television personality. She is most known for being the initial host of the syndicated daytime game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, the original moderator of the daytime talk show The View, and the co-host of the NBC morning news program Today.
Meredith Vieira Age
She is 68 years old as of 2021. She was born Meredith Louise Vieira on 30 December 1953 in Providence, Rhode Island, United States.
Meredith Vieira Height
Vieira stands at a height of 5 feet 3 inches(1.6 m).
Meredith Vieira Family
Vieira was born and reared in the nearby city of East Providence. She is the daughter of first-generation Portuguese Americans Mary Elsie (Rosa), a housewife, and Edwin Vieira, a physician. With three older brothers, she is the youngest of four children. Three of the four grandparents of Vieira were born on Faial Island, one of the nine islands that make up the archipelago, in the Azores. Scallop is the Portuguese translation of the surname Vieira. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, they immigrated to New England and settled close to Providence, Rhode Island. Although Vieira was brought up as a Roman Catholic, she has recently said in interviews that she has “spirituality, not a religion.”
Meredith Vieira Husband
On June 14, 1986, Vieira wed journalist Richard M. Cohen from CBS News. They are residents of Westchester County, New York’s Irvington. Cohen has had multiple sclerosis since he was 25 years old, and has had two bouts of colon cancer, one in 1999 and one a year later. Three children were born to Vieira and Cohen; the eldest son, Gabe Cohen, works as a reporter in Washington state.
Meredith Vieira Education
Vieira graduated in 1971 from the Moses Brown School in Providence’s Quaker all-girls branch, the Lincoln School. In 1975, she received her English degree from Tufts University.
Meredith Vieira Today and The Meredith Vieira Show
On April 6, 2006, Vieira agreed to take Katie Couric’s place as Today’s co-anchor. Vieira promised not to appear on Today at times when Millionaire would air on rival stations as part of her contract with the game show. On June 25, 2008, for “Today Throws a Wedding,” she made her first appearance during the third hour. Additionally, she appeared for the entirety of the third hour for the Winter Olympics in Vancouver in 2010, the Summer Olympics in Beijing in 2008, and the Inauguration of Barack Obama on January 20, 2009. Vieira and Matt Lauer co-hosted the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics’ opening ceremony, and they were both scheduled to offer coverage for the whole two-week event.
She served as one of the hosts for the 2012 London Olympics on NBC. She replaced an ill Bob Costas as the first woman to solo anchor NBC’s prime-time coverage of the Olympics. The Meredith Vieira Show, a syndicated afternoon daytime discussion show, would debut in September 2013, according to an announcement made by Vieira in July 2013. The show’s cancellation after two seasons was announced on January 4, 2016.
Meredith Vieira CBS News
From 1982 through 1984, Vieira initially garnered widespread prominence while working as a correspondent for CBS out of its Chicago office. Later, she started working as a correspondent for many national newsmagazine programs, such as West 57th and 60 Minutes. Co-anchoring the CBS Morning News from 1992 to 1993 was her last job at CBS.
Meredith Vieira Salary
Vieira earns an annual salary of $11 Million.
Meredith Vieira Net Worth
Vieira has an estimated net worth of $45 Million.
Meredith Vieira ABC
From the show’s launch on August 11, 1997, until its finale on June 9, 2006, Vieira hosted and moderated The View. She was in charge of starting and ending each live broadcast of the program, introducing “Hot Topics,” facilitating conversations, and transitioning to commercials. With the exception of the episode where Star Jones made her departure announcement in 2006, Vieira claimed she hasn’t watched The View since she departed the program. Intimate Portrait, a Lifetime program that premiered on January 3, 1995, and continued until August 28, 2004, was another program she hosted.
Meredith Vieira Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
On September 16, 2002, Vieira took over as the show’s inaugural host in the American syndicated market. She is the first woman to win numerous times and the second woman overall to win an Emmy Award in this category (after Betty White for Just Men! in 1983). Vieira not only acted as the program’s host but also as its co-executive producer. Vieira participated in a celebrity tournament on the third season of the original Millionaire in primetime before hosting the syndicated version, winning $250,000 for her chosen charity. With her unexpected entrance on the show’s 10th-anniversary primetime revival finale on August 23, 2009, she would even reverse the situation on Philbin himself. In an effort to concentrate on other career-related endeavors, she declared in January 2013 that she would be quitting the show.
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