Julie Banderas

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**Julie Banderas**
Julie hosting the weekend edition of The Big Story
Born:	1973
Occupation:	Host of The Big Story Weekend (Fox News Channel)
Website:	Biography on FOXNews.com

Julie Banderas (born Julie Bidwell in 1973), is an American television news correspondent and anchor for the Fox News Channel. Based in New York City, she serves as the host of The Big Story Weekend, joining the network in March 2005.

Prior to FNC, Banderas was a weekend anchor for WNYW-TV in New York City. Earlier, she served as an anchor for a number of local news stations, including WFSB-TV in Hartford, WHSV-TV in Harrisonburg, Virginia and WBRE-TV in Wilkes-Barre, PA. She began her career at WLVI-TV in Boston.

She earned her bachelor's degree from Emerson College.

[edit] Julie Banderas vs. Shirley Phelps Roper

In June 2006 Fox invited Christian lawyer Shirley Phelps-Roper, daughter of Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps, onto the show. Shirley was invited onto the show after a civil lawsuit was filed against the church for defamation after the church called dead soldiers homosexuals. The interview started off with both women being calm, cool, and collected but devolved into a full scale shouting match between the two. Ms. Banderas began the interview by asking Ms. Phelps-Roper why she was adding misery to grieving families. Ms. Phelps-Roper became upset when Ms. Banderas claimed that she was spreading lies on the internet. Both women began loudly arguing and throwing quotes of The Bible, with Ms. Banderas saying to Ms. Phelps-Roper "you are the devil . . . you're going to hell." Near the end of the interview, after exchanging bible quotes, Roper said 'You think gay pride bimbo!' to Banderas before Banderas retorted by asking why, if Phelps thinks that America is doomed, she continues to reside there and saying "you should not be proud to be an American . . . good-bye."^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Trivia

During a broadcast of The Big Story, she stated that she "loved" Stephen Colbert.
Went by her birth name Julie Bidwell while at WHSV in Harrisonburg, Virginia and at WBRE-TV in Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. [1]
She is of Colombian descent.[2]
On March 17th, 2007, Banderas filled in for Courtney Friel was a co-host of Fox and Friends Weekend Edition.