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Meredith Vieira Wiki Biography

Meredith Louise Vieira was born on 30^th December 1953, in Providence, Rhode Island USA, of Portuguese American descent. She is a journalist who became famous working as a host for a series of radio and TV shows and news programs, aired by CBS, ABC and NBC.

So just how rich is Meredith Vieira? Sources estimate that her net worth is $40 million, most of the money having been made working as a journalist. She has been both a news anchor and a game show host, which brought her significant earnings. Meredith founded “Meredith Vieira Productions”, a company that produces film, theatre and television. The television host is also the CEO of this company, which has produced, among others, the films “Return” and “The Woman Who Wasn’t There”, and the play “Life in a Marital Institution”.

Meredith Vieira graduated from Tufts University in 1975 with a degree in English. She started her career as a news announcer in local radio WORC in Worcester, and soon began working as a reporter and a news anchor for WJAR-TV, a local television. In 1979, she became a reporter for WCBS-TV in New York City, where she worked until 1982. These were a good base of her net worth.

She spent the following nine years at CBS, where she became known nationally. She started as a reporter based in Chicago and continued as a correspondent for the shows “West 57^th” and “60 Minutes”. Between 1991 and 1993, she was a co-anchor of the “CBS Morning News”. Her net worth rose steadily.

In 1994, Meredith Vieira moved to ABC, where she took part in the projects “Turning Point” and “Portrait”. In 1997, she became a co-host of “The View”, a television show she presented until 2006. Her net worth continued to rise.

Vieira’s popularity grew once she accepted the position moderating the syndicated version of the television show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire”, in 2002, of which the journalist was also a co-executive producer. In 2006, Meredith Vieira moved from ABC to NBC, but she continued with “Millionaire” until 2012, filming over 2,000 episodes of the show. At NBC, the journalist became a co-anchor for “Today”, on which she stayed until 2011, and during which period the media have estimated that the journalist earned $11 million a year. She was also a contributing anchor for “Dateline NBC”, and an NBC News special correspondent. The journalist was a special correspondent for the 2013 “Rock Center with Brian Williams”, and for the 2014 Winter Olympics, all of which contributed to her net worth. Since 2014, the journalist has been the host and the executive producer of a daytime talk show called “The Meredith Vieira Show”. She also has launched a YouTube Channel, called “LIVES with Meredith Vieira”, which talks about women of all ages.

Meredith Vieira has won 14 Emmys for her work as a journalist, including two awards for “Outstanding Game Show Host”. In 2006, she also received the P.T. Barnum Award from Tufts University.

In her personal life, Meredith Vieira married journalist Richard M. Cohen in 1986 and they have three children. Her son, Gabe Cohen, works as a reporter for a television in Washington. The journalist has written about details of her life in the book “Divided Lives: The Public and Private Struggles of Three American Women”, co-written by Elsa Walsh.

Meredith Vieira has invested an important part of her net worth in real estate. She owns two houses in New York and a house in California. The journalist has a 2,500-square-feet penthouse in Central Park West, bought for $8.5 million and another estate located in the enclave of Irvington, New York, estimated at $2.1 million. In 2012, she bought a cul-de-sac close to Mulholland Drive, in the Hollywood Hills, for $1.1 million.

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Meredith Vieira Quick Info

Meredith Vieira Quotes

• Nature inspires me. Whenever I have a problem that needs working out, I walk on the beach or on the path by our home. those simple walks alway seem to help me put things into perspective.
• Honestly, I’m living my fantasy. It’s being with my family, preferably on a snowy afternoon with a fire going, cuddled up in blankets, playing a game. My family fulfills me. As quoted in the Dec 21, 2004 Woman’s World

Meredith Vieira Important Facts

• $10,000,000 /year (2009)
• $10,000,000 /year (2007)
• Has announced that her last day on The View (1997) will be June 9. She will take the summer off and begin at Today (1952) in September. [May 2006]
• Was cast for a one line cameo shot in Gulliver’s Travels while an anchor on NBC’s Today Show, but was called by Jack Black after she got back to New York and was told the scene was cut, even though he had fought “tooth and nail” to have it kept.
• Before hosting the syndicated show, appeared on a celebrity version of Primetime Who Wants to be a Millionaire in 2001 and won $250,000 when she correctly identified what the dot above the letter ‘i’ is called. The money went to “Windows of Hope” a charity that supported families of the victims of 9/11.
• Parents names were Edwin Vieira, MD (b. New Bedford, Massachusetts, 15 May 1904, died Feb 1987), and Mary Elsie Rosa Vieira (daughter of … Rosa and … Silveria), both of Portuguese Azorian ancestry. Her paternal grandfather Antonio (Antone) C. Vieira (b. Faial, Azores, ca 1869) is said to have been a Catholic priest in Fall River, Massachusetts, who eloped with Maria Louise (L.) Costa (also b. Faial, Azores, ca 1879), one of his parishioners. They later married in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1896, had two children, Othilia P. (ca 1902) and Edwin (ca 1905), and he became a state lecturer at the Portuguese community of New Bedford, Massachusetts.
• Has been chosen by NBC to replace Katie Couric as the female anchor of Today (1952).
• Announced that she will be the new co-host on Today (1952) [April 6, 2006].
• When she was at CBS at the same time as Paula Zahn, they each had a husband named “Richard Cohen”.
• Older brother Edwin (Ed) Vieira, Jr. is a political activist that resides in Virginia.
• In 2005, she became the second female to win a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Game Show Host as host of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (2002). The first was Betty White in 1983 for Just Men! (1983).
• Hosted a special featurette of Desperate Housewives (2004) that will be featured on the series’ Season 1 DVD box set, to be released in August, 2005.
• Has stated on The View (1997) that because she wears pantyhose, she doesn’t wear underwear. She thinks it would be redundant to wear both.
• Announced on-air during The View (1997) show in May 2002 that she’s decided to accept ABC’s offer to host the syndicated Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (2002) weekly series, beginning in the fall, while she continues to co-host The View (1997) for the next five years. Reportedly, her salary may jump from $500,000 a year to $5 million.
• Husband, Richard M. Cohen, considered free of colon cancer after surgery in March, 2000. Has battled health problems over many years and is legally blind as a result of multiple sclerosis, which he contracted in his 20s.
• Lives in NY City suburb of Westchester County in a 2-story house built in 1929.
• Was once approached to pose in Playboy, she declined.
• She is allergic to metal, and, therefore, doesn’t wear her wedding ring.
• Scored 1330 on the SAT as a high school junior, and scored 1300 as a senior.
• Graduated magna cum laude from Tufts University with a degree in English (1975).
• She has a fear of bridges.
• Has three children with Richard M. Cohen: Ben Cohen (Benjamin Edwin Cohen) (b. 1989), Gabe Cohen (Gabriel Anthony Cohen) (b. 1991) and Lily Cohen (Lily Max Cohen) (b. 1993).
• Has 3 older brothers named Edwin, Steve and Jeff.
• Husband Richard M. Cohen teaches journalism at Columbia University.
• Is of Portuguese heritage.

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