Gretchen Carlson

Gretchen Carlson

Gretchen Elizabeth Carlson is an American broadcast journalist, author, television personality, and female empowerment advocate. She appeared as the host of numerous television programs, most notably on the Saturday edition of The Early Show on CBS News from 2002 to 2005. In July 2016, Carlson filed a lawsuit against then Fox News Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes claiming sexual harassment. Carlson was named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People In The World in 2017. She will join PeopleTV as a Special Contributor in October 2020.

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Summary Gretchen CarlsonGretchen Elizabeth Carlson is an American broadcast journalist, author, television personality, and female empowerment advocate. She appeared as the host of numerous television programs, most notably on the Saturday edition of The Early Show on CBS News from 2002 to 2005. In July 2016, Carlson filed a lawsuit against then Fox News Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes claiming sexual harassment. Subsequently, dozens of other women also stepped forward to accuse Ailes of harassment, and Ailes resigned under pressure. Carlson was named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People In The World in 2017. It was announced that Carlson would join PeopleTV as a Special Contributor in October 2020. In her youth, Carlson was a prodigy violinist who performed on radio and television. She studied with Dorothy Delay at the Juilliard School of Music in New York City. She won 2nd place in 1981 to Joshua Bell who became a world famous concert violinist, and the Friends of Minnesota Orchestra which she won in 1979, performing as a soloist with the Minnesota Orchestra as a prize at just 13 years old. Carlson graduated from Stanford University in 1990 with honors, where she studied organizational behavior. She was invited to meet President Ronald Reagan in the Oval Office after winning Miss America in 1989. Carlson has interviewed every Presidential candidate and President over the last two decades. She has written two bestselling books, her memoir, Getting Real and the New York Times Bestseller Be Fierce: Stop Harassment and Take Your Power Back.

She is a member of the inaugural class of the Anoka-Hennepin High School Hall of Fame of Fame and served as Grand Marshal of the Halloween Capital of the World parade in 2004. In September 2011, Carlson and her colleague Denise Dufala, became the first women to co-anchor a major-market television station in Dallas, Texas. A year later, Carlson secured a role on ABC-affiliated WRIC-TV in Richmond, Virginia as a political commentator and political commentator. In 1992, she joined WCPO-TV, serving as a weekend anchor and commentator and remained at the station for a period of two years. Following her time in Cleveland, Carlson became a weekend Anchor and reporter for KXAS in Fort Worth, Texas from 1998 to 1998. She became a newscaster and reporter in Dallas in 2000. In 2002, she became a host on Fox News’ morning show Fox & Friends from 2005 to 2013 and The Real Story with Gretchen Carlson onFox News from 2013 to 2016. In 2008, she was named to the inaugural Class of the Anoka High School Hall of Fame of Fame for her work as a broadcast journalist and commentator. She also served as the Grand Marshal for the Halloween Capital of the World parade in 2004, which she hosted as the state’s second largest parade, which Carlson served asGrand Marshal in. Carlson is of Swedish descent. Her father studied business at Gustavus Adolphus College and later became owner of Main Motor Sales, an automobile dealership.