Kiran Chetry Biography, Age, Instagram, Doing Divorce, Husband

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Kiran Chetry Biography

Kiran Chetry (Carrie) is a former American television broadcast journalist . Carrie was a cable news anchor for CNN’s American Morning. She reported from 2001 to 2007 and then anchored cable news at Fox News.

She attended Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland where she served in student government, competed on the swim team, and danced on the pom squad.

Then enrolled at the University of Maryland, College Park’s College of Journalism, there she joined the Alpha Pi chapter of Delta Delta Delta sorority and she received her Bachelor of Arts in broadcast journalism.

Kiran Chetry Age

Kiran Carrie was born on August 26, 1974 in Patan Hospital, Patan, Bagmati, Nepal. She is [agecalc birthdate=1974-08-26]

Kiran Chetry Family

Her parents are Hom Chetry and Nancy Chetry. Her father, Hom Chetry, is a Nepalese-American and her mother, Nancy Chetry, is of Ukrainian and German descent.

Chetry has one sibling, a younger sister named Tina.

Chris Knowles Kiran Chetry | Kiran Chetry Husband | Kiran Chetry Divorce

Chris Knowles is a former television meteorologist who was married to Kiran, a former anchor for CNN’s “American Morning” show. The couple got married in 2006 and they have two children together, a son and a daughter.

However, in 2013, Kiran Chetry and Chris Knowles announced that they were getting a divorce, citing irreconcilable differences. The couple’s divorce was finalized in 2014.

Since then, Kiran Chetry has largely kept her personal life out of the public eye and has focused on her career as a journalist and anchor. Chris Knowles has also moved on and is currently working as a meteorologist for a television station in New York.

Rick Married Kiran Chetry

Rick is not married to Kiran. Chetry is an American meteorologist who married wife Jovita Smith in 2013.

Kiran Chetry Career

Chetry began her career in journalism in 1995 as a production assistant at ABC News. She later worked as a general assignment reporter for WICZ-TV in Binghamton, New York, and then as a reporter and anchor for KXTV in Sacramento, California.

In 2001, she joined Fox News Channel, where she worked as a general assignment reporter and anchored various programs, including Fox & Friends and Fox News Live.

Chetry joined CNN in 2007 and co-anchored American Morning with John Roberts until 2011. She also served as a correspondent for CNN, reporting on breaking news events and covering stories from around the world.

Chetry has interviewed numerous high-profile figures, including former President Bill Clinton, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak.

After leaving CNN in 2011, Chetry took a break from broadcasting to focus on her family. She returned to television in 2014 as a contributor to Nepali television network Sagarmatha TV, where she co-hosted a weekly talk show about Nepali and South Asian issues.

Kiran Chetry Fox News

Kiran joined Fox News Channel in 1999. She joined the cable news network Fox News Channel as a general reporter in 2001, first appearing on March 8, 2001, in a story about eating ice cream.

She was honored with the Making our Mark (MOM) Award from the Association of Nepalis in the Americas the next year.

During her tenure at Fox News, Kiran worked as a rotating anchor for Fox News Live and the early morning news program Fox & Friends First. She then became a regular co-host on the network’s weekend morning news program, Fox & Friends Weekend in late 2005.

What Happened To Kiran Chetry?

As her contract with Fox News neared the end of its term in early 2007, the network negotiated with Chetry’s agent to renew her contract. It was expected to be renewed with her continuing to co-host Fox & Friends Weekend.

However, the talks ended when Fox News claimed in a letter to Chetry’s agent on February 15, 2007, that she had demanded “that Fox News include a clause in her new agreement that would have been detrimental to other Fox News Talent.”

The network added that it would not renew her contract and that she was free to leave before the expiration of her contract, she exercised that option.

Allegedly, she wanted a clause in her contract that would have had Gretchen Carlson, a co-anchor of Fox & Friends, fired. Her agent countered that the allegation of Kiran’s wanting Carlson fired was “absolutely false”.

Kiran Chetry CNN

Reportedly, CNN signed her within an hour of her release from the Fox News Channel. She began work as a CNN anchor and correspondent on February 16, 2007.

That same day, she also served as a co-host on American Morning in the morning, and anchored Anderson Cooper 360 that evening. Chetry went on to substitute as an anchor for Paula Zahn Now and CNN Newsroom.

CNN’s President Jonathan Klein officially announced Chetry as the new co-anchor on April 4, 2007. On April 16, 2007, Chetry had her first American Morning broadcast. July 29, 2011 was her last day on American Morning and at CNN.

Kiran Chetry Doing Now | Where Is Kiran Chetry Today?

She co-anchored with Errol Barnett a few late-night telecasts for CNN International in August 2014. Chetry has also recently been an infomercial presenter for Nutribullet.

Kiran Chetry Net Worth

Chetry has an estimated net worth of $700 thousand.

Kiran Chetry Height

She stands at a height of 1.7m.

Kiran Chetry Weight

Chetry’s weight is not yet revealed.

Kiran Chetry Maxim

Kiran made Maxim magazine’s top-ten list of TV’s sexiest news anchors, placing third on the list in 2006. Chetry was ranked as America’s sexiest female anchor and the world’s second-sexiest female anchor.

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