Birth Name: | Don Lemon |
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Date of Birth: | 01/03/1966 |
Age: | 58 years old |
Nationality: | American |
Net Worth: | $3 million |
Qualification: | Bachelor in broadcast journalism |
Don Lemon net worth is huge. Don Lemon net worth piled up because of his success as a famous television personality.
Don Lemon is one of the renowned American television personalities. He is based in New York City. Don Lemon currently hosts CNN Tonight.
Don Lemon was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S. He was born on March 1, 1966. His current age is 51 as of now.
Don Lemon attended a public high school in the small city of Baker in East Baton Rouge Parish named as Baker High school. He attended Brooklyn College in Brooklyn, New York where he majored in broadcast journalism. He also attended Louisiana state university. At college, Don Lemon worked as a news assistant at WNYW in New York City.
Don Lemon started his career as a weekend anchor for WBRC in Birmingham, Alabama. He also served as an anchor for WCAU in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He worked as an anchor and investigate reporter for KTVI St. Louis and anchor for WBRC Birmingham, Alabama. He served as a reporter for NBC News New York City operations and also worked for Today and NBC Nightly News as a correspondent and as an anchor on Weekend Today and MSNBC.
He began at NBC O&O station WMAQ-TV in 2003 where he was a reporter and local news co-anchor. In 2006, he became associated with CNN. Lemon has criticized the state of cable news and questioning the network publicly and he has always been outspoken in his work at CNN. He also had a strong opinion on ways that African American community could improve themselves which was a cause of controversy. He has been hosting CNN’s New Years Eve Special from Orleans since 2014.
Don Lemon success did not come alone; there is a number of Don Lemon rumors associated with it. Don Lemon rumors could never become an obstacle in the way of his work and he always performed well. Don Lemon net worth is huge though it is not revealed yet. As of 2014, some of the sources claim it be $ 3 million. Don Lemon net worth was not very much during the initial phase of his career in the field of media. Don Lemon net worth began to increase with the work as a famous American television personality and when he was known by millions of people. Don Lemon net worth will surely ascendant in the future for the efforts that he puts in his every work and Don Lemon net worth will reach a very big height undoubtedly.
In September 2010, he stated that he was a victim of sexual abuse as a child and he was known about this from his mother at age of thirty only not ever before than this. Lemon came out as gay and discussed colorism in the black community and the sexual abuse he suffered as a child in his memoir, transparent.He has various ancestry like Creole, Nigerian, Cameroonian and Congolese. In 2015, a huge mass of people signed a petition which demanded lemon to be fired from CNN due to a controversial remark that he made regarding police behavior.He has not revealed clearly about his girlfriends, marriages, and divorces because he is a very secretive person. He knows how to maintain a distance between work like and personal life and that might be the major reason why he succeeded in his life till today.
Awards, achievements,and recognition
Don Lemon is honored a number of times for his impressive work that is reflected in each and every work that he does. Lemon was honored with Emmy Award for a special report on the real estate market in Chicago. He also got Edward R. Murrow Award for his coverage of the capture of the D.C area sniper. He also received another number of awards for reports on Hurricane Katrina and the AIDS epidemic in Africa. In 2009, he was voted as one of the 150 most influential African Americans by Ebony magazine. But later on in 2014, his named was put on the list of the worst journalist in a Columbia Journalism Review ranking.
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— Don Lemon (@donlemon) April 7, 2017