T. J. Holmes Biography
T. J. Holmes is a journalist and national television personality from the United States. Holmes rose to national prominence as a CNN anchor and correspondent. He was a CNN Saturday and Sunday Morning anchor for five years.
T. J. Holmes Age
Holmes is 44 years old as of 2021. She was born Loutelious “T. J.” Holmes, Jr. on 19 August 1977 in West Memphis, Arkansas, United States.
T. J. Holmes Height
Holmes stands at a height of 5 feet 7 inches(1.7m).
T. J. Holmes Family – Parents
Holmes is the younger of two children and was born in West Memphis, Arkansas. “T. Jr.” was his family’s nickname for him.
T. J. Holmes Education
Holmes earned a degree in broadcast journalism from the University of Arkansas. He also serves on the Board of Visitors at Emory University in Atlanta and the Chancellor’s Board of Advisors at the University of Arkansas. In 2007, Holmes received the Arkansas Alumni Association’s Young Alumni Award at the University of Arkansas. In addition, he was named to The Root 100 List of the Most Influential Black Americans in 2011.
T. J. Holmes Wife – Son
He later married Amy Ferson, but the couple divorced in 2007. On March 1, 2010, he married Atlanta-area attorney Marilee Fiebig in Memphis, Tennessee. The couple announced in November 2012 that they were expecting their first child in January 2013. Sabine, their daughter, was born in January 2013.
T. J. Holmes Children /Kids
Holmes has three children: two daughters Brianna Holmes, Sabine Holmes, and Jaiden Holmes, a son.
T. J. Holmes GMA
Holmes joined the ABC News Team on a freelance/temporary basis on September 26, 2014, filling in on the overnight news programs World News Now (WNN) and America This Morning, as well as filing reports for Good Morning America when news broke overnight, which he did on the day of his hiring and was made publicly official the next day by the GMA Weekend hosts. He will also, like the other WNN anchors, fill in on GMA as needed.
On December 23, 2014, he was named WNN’s permanent co-host. T. J. was announced as the new co-host of GMA3:What You Need To Know, beginning September 21, 2020, on September 18, 2020. Upon his arrival, the show was reimagined, including a new logo and studio.
T. J. Holmes Net Worth
Holmes has a net worth of $5 million.
Ethnicity T. J. Holmes’ wife
Marilee Fiebig Holmes is an American Atlanta-area attorney. She was born and raised in the Democratic Republic of Congo which makes her be of African ethnicity.
T. J. Holmes Career
Holmes began his television career in Joplin, Missouri, at KSNF Channel 16. He drove from the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville to Joplin to hand-deliver his resume and reel. He was hired right away. Holmes worked as a producer, assignment reporter, and weekend anchor at KSNF for less than a year.
In 2000, Holmes returned to his home state of Arkansas to work as a general assignment reporter for CBS affiliate KTHV in Little Rock. He was promoted to weekend anchor within a year. In 2003, Holmes accepted a position as anchor of the 5 p.m. evening news at KNTV, an NBC O&O station in the San Francisco Bay Area.
He went to Athens, Greece to cover the 2004 Olympics, the first Summer Games held after the September 11th attacks, while working at KNTV. While at KNTV, he covered a number of other national stories, including the historic recall election of California Governor Gray Davis, which resulted in the election of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Scott Peterson’s double-murder trial.
T. J. Holmes Net Worth
Holmes has an estimated net worth of $5 million.
T. J. Holmes CNN
In October 2006, Holmes joined CNN as a news anchor and correspondent. He co-anchored CNN Saturday and Sunday Morning with Betty Nguyen until Nguyen left for CBS in March 2010. After that, Holmes took over as the sole anchor of the newscast.
Holmes worked for CNN and reported from a variety of locations, including Joplin, Missouri, which was hit by multiple tornadoes in May 2011, New Orleans during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, and Blacksburg, Virginia, shortly after the Virginia Tech shootings. On the tenth anniversary of the September 11th attacks, Holmes also anchors from Ground Zero.
In 2008, Holmes covered Pope Benedict XIV’s historic first visit to the United States, including anchoring live from the mass at Yankee Stadium. Some of the first accounts from survivors of US Airways Flight 1549, which crashed into the Hudson River in January 2009, were obtained by Holmes. During the first presidential debate between Senators John McCain and Barack Obama, Holmes reported from the University of Mississippi campus.
The execution of Saddam Hussein in 2006, the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India in 2008, and the terrorist attacks at Glasgow Airport in 2007 were all covered by Holmes. Holmes was a part of CNN’s coverage of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 and the presidential primary elections in 2008, both of which won Peabody Awards. Christmas Day 2011 was Holmes’ last day on CNN.
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