Shepard Smith Fox News, Bio, Age, Height, Gay, CNBC, Salary, Net Worth

Shepard Smith Biography

Shepard Smith, an American broadcaster and journalist now working as an Anchor and Executive Editor of “The News with Shepard Smith”. Additionally, he works as a CNBC’s Chief General News Anchor and Chief Breaking General News Anchor.

Shepard Smith Age

Smith was born on January 14, 1964, in Holly Springs, Mississippi, United States. Now, he is 58 years old.

Smith Education

Smith studied journalism at the University of Mississippi.

Shepard Smith Height

Smith stands at a height of 5 feet 7 inches (1.7m). He weighs around 72kg.

Shepard Smith Family

He is the son of Ellen Anderson, an English teacher, and David Shepard Smith Sr., a cotton merchant. His parents divorced and he went to Florida with his mother.

Shepard Smith Gay

Smith married Virginia Donald 1987, a University of Mississippi classmate. In 1993, the couple divorced with no kids. However, in 2017 Smith came out as gay and has a long-time boyfriend.

Shepard Smith CNBC

He is now working as an Anchor and Executive Editor of “The News with Shepard Smith” (M-F, 7 PM-8 PM ET), a nightly newscast providing deep, non-partisan coverage and perspective on the day’s most important stories. Furthermore, Smith also worked as CNBC’s Chief General News Anchor and Chief Breaking General News Anchor, which was announced when he arrived at the network in July 2020. He is based at CNBC Global Headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, N.J.

Recently, Smith worked as FOX News Channel’s Chief News Anchor besides Managing Editor of the breaking news division. From 2013-to 2019, he also anchored the news program “Shepard Smith Reporting.” Before that, he anchored “The FOX Report” and “Studio B.”

While at his time at FOX News Channel, Smith worked on major news events like presidential elections, Hurricane Katrina, the BP oil spill, the Middle East conflict from the Israel-Lebanon border, the attacks of 9/11, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and mass shootings from Columbine to Las Vegas. Early in his career at FOX News Channel, Smith worked as a New York-based general assignment reporter before being promoted to the senior correspondent.

Prior to coming to FOX News Channel, Smith worked as a FOX News Edge correspondent based in Los Angeles and worked on a range of stories for the FOX affiliate news service, such as the crash of TWA Flight 800 and the Oklahoma City bombing.

He started his broadcast career as a reporter at local stations across the state of Florida like WSVN-TV (FOX) in Miami, the former WCPX-TV (CBS) in Orlando, WBBH-TV (NBC) in Fort Myers, and WJHG-TV (NBC) in Panama City.