Sade Baderinwa
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Sade Baderinwa (born Folasade Olayinka Baderinwa in 1971) is currently co-anchor with Diana Williams of New York City's WABC's 5 p.m. weekday editions of Eyewitness News, as well as a reporter for the station. Her father is Nigerian and her mother is German. She graduated from the University of Maryland College Park.[1]
She joined WABC in 2003 after a stint in her hometown of Baltimore, Maryland, where she anchored the news on WBAL-TV for nearly three years.[1] Sade replaced Roz Abrams, who left WABC in 2003 to take over the 5 and 11 p.m. anchor duties at WCBS-TV.
Around the time of her departure from Baltimore, rumors abounded that she was involved with the Democratic mayor of Baltimore Martin O'Malley. In 2005 Joseph Steffen, an aide to then-incumbent governor and O'Malley political rival Robert Ehrlich, was fired for boasting that he had spread rumors online about O'Malley's alleged infidelity.[2] The O'Malleys strenuously deny that any such affair transpired, and no evidence has ever been offered to support the allegations.
On July 23, 2004 while preparing a report on location in Hackensack, New Jersey about local flooding, she was struck by a hit and run driver who went through police lines.[3][4] After multiple surgeries and months of recovery and physical therapy,[5] Sade returned to Eyewitness News on December 13, 2004.
Sade appeared on The View as a guest co-host on Friday, October 27, 2006.
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- ^ a b Biography at "Sade Baderinwa", WABC-TV. Retrieved on 2006-12-03.
- ^ St. George, Donna. "A Politician Who Thinks Like a Linebacker", Washington Post, 2006-10-31, pp. A01. Retrieved on 2006-12-03.
- ^ Huff, Richard, Hufte, Tom. "Daily News: TV news anchor struck in hit-and-run", New York Daily News, 2004-07-24. Retrieved on 2006-12-03.
- ^ "WBAL-TV: Sade Baderinwa Talks About Accident That Nearly Killed Her", theWBALChannel.com, 2005-02-24. Retrieved on 2006-12-03.
- ^ Huff, Richard. "Ch. 7 anchor's road to recovery", New York Daily News, 2004-12-17. Retrieved on 2006-12-03.
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