Don Lemon Net Worth, Bio, Age, Career, Salary & Wife

Don Lemon Net Worth

Don Lemon is a tv host and journalist in the US who is worth an estimated $12 million. In addition to his current role at CNN, He has held major anchor and presenter roles at NBC and MSNBC in the past. He has been recognised for his work on “CNN Tonight” and other programmes with a number of awards, including three Emmys. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential black and LGBTQ figures in the media industry.

Don Lemon Bio

Don Lemon was born on March 1, 1966, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Mr. Richardson (father) and Katherine Clark had him, and he is their son (mother). Yma Lemon and Leisa Lemon are his sisters. Don continued his education by enrolling in Baker High School in Baker, East Baton Rouge Parish, after finishing primary school. To cap off his high school career, he was elected president of his senior class. After that, he decided to attend LSU. He attended Brooklyn College and earned a degree in broadcast journalism.

Don Lemon Career

In the beginning of his career, Don Lemon worked as a weekend news anchor for both WBRC in Birmingham, Alabama and WCAU in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He also worked as an anchor and reporter for KTVI in St. Louis, Missouri. He was a journalist for Today and NBC Nightly News, as well as an anchor for Weekend Today and MSNBC shows, for the New York City bureau of NBC News. He started as a reporter and local news co-anchor at NBC-owned and -operated WMAQ-TV in 2003. While working for WMAQ, he earned three Emmys for his outstanding local reporting.

CNN welcomed Lemon in September of 2006. He has been very vocal about his opinions at CNN, questioning the network’s legitimacy and critiquing the condition of cable news. In addition, he has been the subject of criticism for his outspoken views on how to better the lot of African Americans. He has also co-hosted CNN’s New Year’s Eve special with Brooke Baldwin from New Orleans since 2014.

In a January 2018 programme that garnered widespread attention, Lemon began his show by saying, “This is CNN.” I’m Don Lemon, and welcome to the show tonight. A racist leader of the United States is in office. He has become a target of President Trump’s animus because of his vocal criticism of the administration and allegations of racism against Trump.

The conservative media attacked Lemon in October 2018 after he said, “we have to stop demonising people and realise that the biggest terror threat in this country is white men, most of them radicalised to the right, and we have to start doing something about them.”He made the comment during an on-air discussion about the migrant caravan. They are free to roam wherever they like.

It was revealed in May of 2021 that Lemon and CNN colleague Chris Cuomo would be releasing a podcast called “The Handoff.” The audio programme will discuss “political and personal” issues and will not use a teleprompter.

At the end of CNN Tonight with Don Lemon on May 14, 2021, the host made the following news: “So, earlier I told you I had an announcement, and I do. Everything has been fantastic. Tonight marks the final edition of CNN Tonight with Don Lemon. I want to thank you for watching CNN Tonight with Don Lemon over the years, but there are some upcoming changes, and I’ll fill you in on them. After “setting fire to” the internet, Lemon tweeted an apology the next morning and announced the new title of his show: Don Lemon Tonight, premiering the following Monday.

On December 6, 2021, Jussie Smollett testified that he had communicated with Lemon in the beginning stages of a police inquiry into a purported hate crime attack. Smollett, when appearing under oath, claimed that Lemon texted that the Chicago Police Department had rejected his account of what transpired. In his coverage of the trial on the evening of December 6th, Lemon has been criticised for not acknowledging his involvement in the case.

Don Lemon Wife

Don Lemon secretly weds Stephanie Ortiz. But nobody has come forward to either corroborate or refute the claims.

Is Don Lemon gay ?

Lemon came out as gay in his memoir, Transparent, which came out in 2011. He has been out in his personal life and with close coworkers for a long time. He also talked about how black people are treated because of their skin colour and how he was sexually abused as a child. He wrote the book with Tyler Clementi in mind. Clementi was a college student who killed himself after his roommate posted online that he was gay. Lemon also said that he knew he was gay since he was five or six years old.

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