Robin Roberts Biography
Robin Roberts is a television host in the United States. ABC’s Good Morning America is hosted by Roberts. Roberts was the first woman of color and the first openly LGBTQ+ woman to host the popular American television game show Jeopardy. Other ABC anchors include Forrest Sawyer, Joan Lunden, Jim Avila, Joan Lunden, Cecily Tynan, George Stephanopoulos, Michael Strahan, Lara Spencer, Ginger Zee, David Muir, Amy Robach, Kendis Gibson, Diane Macedo, Janai Norman, Rob Nelson, Paula Faris, and Reena Ninan.
Robin Roberts Age
Roberts is 61 years old as f 2021. He was born Robin René Roberts on 23 November 1960 in Tuskegee, Alabama, United States.
Robin Roberts Height
Roberts stands at a height of 5 feet 10 inches (1.78m).
Robin Roberts Education
Roberts attended Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in communication in 1983. On January 14, 2007, edition of Costas on the Radio, Roberts stated that she was offered a scholarship to play basketball at Louisiana State University but decided that the school was too large and impersonal after touring the campus. She saw a road sign for Southeastern Louisiana University on her way back to Pass Christian from that visit, stopped to visit, and decided to enroll.
The only scholarship available was a tennis scholarship, and she was promised that a journalism scholarship would be available by the time she graduated. She went on to become a standout performer for the women’s basketball team, finishing her career as the third all-time leading scorer (1,446 points) and rebounder for the school (1,034). Roberts is one of only three Lady Lions to have 1,000 points and 1,000 rebounds in her career. She averaged a career-high 27.6 points per game during her senior year. On February 5, 2011, Southeastern held a ceremony to honor the retirement of Roberts’ jersey, number 21.
Robin Roberts Family
Lucimarian (née Tolliver) and Colonel Lawrence E. Roberts are her parents. In a 2006 address to the Abilene Christian University student body, Roberts credited her parents with instilling the “three ‘D’s: Discipline, Determination, and ‘De Lord.'” She followed in the footsteps of her older sister Sally-Ann Roberts, an anchor at New Orleans’ CBS affiliate WWL-TV.
Robin Roberts Partner
In 2005, Roberts began a romantic relationship with massage therapist Amber Laign. Despite the fact that her friends and coworkers were aware of her same-sex relationships, Roberts publicly admitted to being a lesbian for the first time in late December 2013. Equality Forum named her one of the 31 Icons of 2015 LGBT History Month in 2015.
Roberts was named a mentor for Disney’s #DreamBigPrincess campaign on October 10, 2018.
Robin Roberts Health
Roberts was diagnosed with an early stage of breast cancer in 2007. She had surgery on August 3 and had completed eight chemotherapy treatments by January 2008. She was diagnosed with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), a bone marrow disease, in 2012. Be the Match Registry, a nonprofit run by the National Marrow Donor Program saw a 1,800% increase in donors the day Roberts announced her illness. She took a leave of absence from GMA to undergo a bone marrow transplant and returned home in October 2012. On February 20, 2013, she returned to GMA.
The program earned Roberts a Peabody Award in 2012. The Peabody award recognizes her for “allowing her network to document and build a public service campaign around her battle with rare disease,” as well as “inspir[ing] hundreds of potential bone marrow donors to register and heighten[ing] awareness of the need for even more donors.” At the 2013 ESPYs, ESPN presented Roberts with the Arthur Ashe Courage Award, and the National Basketball Association presented her with the Sager Strong Award at its award ceremony on June 20, 2019.
Robin Roberts Net Worth
Roberts has an estimated net worth of $45 Million.
Robin Roberts Salary
Roberts earns $18million every year.
Robin Roberts Career
Roberts started her career as a sports anchor and reporter for WDAM-TV in Hattiesburg, Mississippi in 1983. She moved to WLOX-TV in Biloxi, Mississippi, in 1984. She worked as a sports anchor and reporter for WSMV-TV in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1986. She worked as a sports anchor and reporter for WAGA-TV in Atlanta, Georgia, from 1988 to 1990. While in Atlanta, she worked as a radio host for V-103.
She began working as a sportscaster for ESPN in February 1990 and remained there until 2005. “Go on with your bad self!” she exclaimed on SportsCenter. In June 1995, Roberts began working for ABC News, specifically as a featured reporter for Good Morning America.
The WBCA presented Roberts with the Mel Greenberg Media Award in 2001. Roberts worked as a contributor to both ESPN and Good Morning America. During that time, she was primarily the GMA news anchor. Roberts was promoted to co-anchor of Good Morning America in 2005. After Diane Sawyer left to anchor ABC World News in December 2009, Roberts was joined as co-anchor of GMA by George Stephanopoulos. The Roberts-Stephanopoulos team returned Good Morning America to the top of the ratings; the show became the number-one morning show again in April 2012, defeating NBC’s Today, which had held the top spot for the previous 16 years.
Roberts anchored a series of emotional reports from the Mississippi Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina devastated it in the fall of 2005; her hometown of Pass Christian was especially hard hit, with her old high school reduced to rubble. Roberts hosted the Academy Awards preshow for ABC on February 22, 2009, and again in 2011. Roberts appeared as a guest star on Hannah Montana in season 4, episode 10, “Can You See the Real Me?” in 2010. Roberts drove the Pace Car in the 2010 Indianapolis 500 on May 30, 2010.
Roberts co-anchored the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, an American television actress, on May 19, 2018, at St. George’s Chapel in Windsor. Roberts received the National Association of Broadcasters Distinguished Service Award in 2018. Following Alex Trebek’s death in November 2020, Roberts served as a guest host on Jeopardy! for five episodes airing July 19–23, 2021.
