Kiran Chetry
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 Kiran Chetry, circa 2006 |
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| Born: | August 26, 1974 Kathmandu, Nepal |
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| Occupation: | Co-Host of Fox & Friends Weekend (Fox News Channel) |
| Website: | Biography on FoxNews.com |
Kiran Chetry (born August 26, 1974 in Kathmandu, Nepal) is best known for her work as hostess and newsreader on the Fox News Channel. Kiran (whose name is Nepali for "rays of sunshine") grew up in Gaithersburg, Maryland and received a bachelor of arts in broadcast journalism from the University of Maryland, College Park's College of Journalism.
She began her career in 1995 at News 21 in Rockville, Maryland, then moved to WICU-TV in Erie, Pennsylvania as the main anchor and health reporter. She received the Best Enterprise Reporting award from the Pennsylvania Associated Press Broadcasters Association in 1997 for her series "Young and Hooked," which looked at teen smoking. Prior to joining Fox News, she was the morning anchor and reporter for KXTV in Sacramento, California. Chetry first appeared on Fox News March 8, 2001 in a story about eating ice cream.
She is married to Fox News Channel weather forecaster Chris Knowles, but originally did not acknowledge it in her on-air interactions with him. In many awkward exchanges between them, they would each talk about their spouse in the third person. Knowles did acknowledge Chetry as his wife when it was announced she was pregnant with their child, and again on a show while Chetry was still on maternity leave in which pictures of their newborn daughter, Maya Rose, were shown.
Although there had been growing rumors of Chetry being pregnant in 2005, she was no longer able to hide her growing belly girth, and she announced on the October 8, 2005, edition of Fox & Friends Weekend that she was 22 weeks pregnant and expecting a baby girl in February 2006. Her baby Maya Rose Knowles was born on February 8, 2006, at 1:18 AM.
Chetry returned to the Fox & Friends Weekend Edition program on Saturday, April 8, 2006, after taking maternity leave. During this program, she acknowledged her marriage to Knowles, and even joked that she did not bring an umbrella with her that day because "we don't discuss work at home." Since that time Chetry and Knowles have been considerably more open about their marriage.
On the April 29, 2006, edition of Fox & Friends Weekend, Chetry discussed Wikipedia with her on-air colleagues. They mentioned the John Seigenthaler, Sr. Wikipedia controversy. Chetry also read a portion of this article. She disagreed with the characterization that she had hid from the public her marriage to Knowles.
Also in 2006, Kiran made Maxim Magazine's top ten list of TV's Sexiest News Anchors, coming in at 3rd on the list.(See [1])
