Heather Childers

Heather Star Childers
Born January 7, 1969[1]
Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S.
Residence New York, New York
Education Myers Park High School (1987)
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1991)[2]
Occupation Reporter/Co-Host/Part-time Anchor
Years active 1992–present
Employer Fox News Channel
Awards Miss Charlotte NC 1993
Website
Heather Childers bio at Foxnews.com

Heather Star Childers[3] is an American television news personality. She is the co-anchor of America's News Headquarters and co-host of Fox and Friends First for the Fox News Channel. She signed on with Fox News in late 2010.

Biography

Early years

Heather Childers grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina. As a young child she attended Sharon Elementary School, in the Foxcroft area of Charlotte, and is a 1987 graduate of Myers Park High School.[2] Childers stated that other Fox News on-air correspondents Ainsley Earhardt and Anna Kooiman, attended the same elementary school, although at different times and none were classmates of each other.[4] (Kooiman also attended Myers Park HS)[5]

At 16, she crashed her 1964 Chevrolet Corvair into a tree on Queens Road West. Years of reconstructive facial and oral surgery followed. After graduating from high school, she attended the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and earned an undergraduate degree in English.[1][2]

Professional career

Childers began her professional career in 1992 at WCNC-TV in Charlotte as a producer/reporter. Then beginning in 1995, she was a weekday anchor and then news director for WFXL, a Fox affiliate in Albany, Georgia. She then moved to WLOS-TV, an ABC affiliate in Asheville, North Carolina in 1999. Beginning in 2002, she became a news anchor for News 14 Carolina for eight years. Childers came to Fox News Channel as a general assignment reporter in the fall of 2010.[2][6]

Childers became an anchor on America's News Headquarters in August 2011.[7] She is also one of four rotating co-hosts of the Fox News Channel program Fox and Friends First; the program's other co-hosts are Patti Ann Browne, Ainsley Earhardt and Heather Nauert.[8]

In April 2012, Childers created controversy with a post on her Twitter account. In the post, Childers linked to an article from www.godfatherpolitics.com which was titled "Did Obama Campaign Threaten Chelsea Clinton's Life?" The article intimated that Barack Obama was trying to silence the Clinton family on the truth behind Obama's birth certificate. In response to criticism of the tweet, Childers said that she was "asking for opinion."[9] On an April 8, 2014 Fox & Friends First episode, she mistakenly referred to the Connecticut Huskies as champions of the NAACP.[10]

Awards

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Former WLOSer Heather Childers lands job at Fox News Channel as NYC reporter and fill-in anchor
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Heather Childers Resume
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Miss Mecklenburg County
  4. ↑ Fox and Friends First autobiographical story, 18 June 2013
  5. ↑ ‘Rising’ Fox star lands dream gig
  6. ↑ "Biography: Heather Childers". Fox News Channel. January 13, 2011. Retrieved March 24, 2013.
  7. ↑ "Childers named weekend anchor on Fox News". Charlotteobserver.com. August 22, 2011. Retrieved March 24, 2013.
  8. ↑ "About Fox & Friends First". Fox News Channel. Retrieved March 24, 2013.
  9. ↑ Shapiro, Rebecca (April 3, 2012). "Fox News' Heather Childers Tweets Link To Article: 'Did Obama Campaign Threaten Chelsea Clinton's Life?'". Huffington Post. Retrieved March 24, 2013.
  10. ↑ Heather Childers Calls UConn NAACP National Champs

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