Michelle Charlesworth
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Michelle Charlesworth | ||
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Born | June 7, 1970 | |
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Occupation | journalist, television personality | |
Children | 1 daughter | |
Ethnicity | White American | |
Notable credit(s) | Reporter for ABC News and Reporter/Anchor for WABC-TV in New York City (1998 - present) |
Michelle Charlesworth (born June 7, 1970) is an American television news reporter and anchor. Since 1998 she has been a reporter for both ABC News and WABC-TV, as well as a weekend morning anchor for WABC-TV's Eyewitness News and is best known for an award winning series of reports about her battle with skin cancer, which aired on both WABC-TV and ABC's Good Morning America.
After graduating from Duke University with a BA in public policy, Michelle studied economics in a graduate program on a full scholarship from the German government at the University of Freiberg. She was an anchor and reporter at WNCN-TV in North Carolina from 1996 to 1998
On October 16, 2006, Charlesworth gave birth to her first child, a girl. Her daughter was named Isabelle Marlene, after the hurricane that hit Charlesworth's wedding on the Jersey Shore.
Michelle Charlesworth is an alumna of Princeton High School in New Jersey. She was currently in a long list of WABC-TV reporters in line to replace currently fired Eyewitness News This Morning co-anchor Steve Bartelstein. Another candidate for the anchor seat was reporter Lisa Colagrossi. Ken Rosato became the co-anchor on July 6, 2007. [1]