Deborah Norville Wiki, Age, Bio, Height, Husband, Career, and Net Worth

Deborah Norville is a businesswoman and TV journalist. She is noted for her work as the anchor of ‘Inside Edition,’ a TV news magazine.

Wiki, Bio, Family, Siblings, Childhood & Education

Deborah Anne Norville was born in Dalton, Georgia, USA on August 8, 1958. Her zodiac sign is Leo, and she is 64 years old. Zachary Norville and Merle O. Norville are her parents. Her father has a menagerie that includes camels, ostriches, and llamas.

She is one of her parents’ four daughters. Patti Slivers and Cathy Amos are two of her three sisters. Norville Industries’ executives are her siblings.

She had a natural flair for sewing, which she inherited from her mother. Her parents split afterward, and she moved in with her mother. Her mother was bedridden due to a fatal disease. Deborah was 20 years old when she died.

Norville won her town’s local Junior Miss beauty pageant for high school senior females. She went on to represent Georgia in America’s Junior Miss pageant in 1976.

Deborah Norville’s Age, Height, Weight, and Body Dimensions

She has beautiful blue eyes and blonde hair. Her height is 5 feet 8 inches (173 cm) and her weight is approximately 61 kg. Her shoe size is 8.5 (US), and her dress size is 6. (US). Her body dimensions are 35-26-36 inches, and she wears a 34B bra cup.

Deborah Norville’s Profession & Career

She began her television career while still a college student. ‘Georgia Public Television’ offered her a job. She worked behind the scenes for the television show ‘The Lawmakers,’ which covered the ‘Georgia General Assembly.’ While working there, she was seen by a producer from ‘WAGA-TV.’ ‘WAGA-TV,’ which is based in Atlanta, offered Norville a summer internship. The day she was hired as a reporter, she reported for an evening show. She was soon employed as a full-time weekend correspondent. She had not yet graduated and was in her final year of college at the time.

Deborah Norville was tasked with interviewing President Jimmy Carter in 1979. She was appointed as the weekend reporter after graduating from university in 1979. More job offers began to come her way, and she accepted a position as a reporter for the NBC station WMAQ-TV in Chicago. ‘NBC News’ hired her as an anchor after she worked there for a few years.

She joined NBC News in January 1987 as the anchor for the show ‘NBC News at Sunrise.’ She was the show’s sole female anchor at the time. She also started anchoring NBC’s most famous news show, ‘The Today Show,’ commonly known as ‘Today,’ on occasion.’Bad Girls,’ an NBC documentary, was hosted by her in 1989. The show was about spoiled and abused adolescent females. The documentary was the channel’s seventh-most-watched show for the whole week.

‘Today’ hired her as a full-time host in 1989. In 1990, she debuted as a co-host on the show. However, after Norville was added to ‘Today,’ the show’s ratings dropped. The main cause of this was ineffective channel management. She later took maternity leave in the early 1990s and did not return to the channel.

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Instead, she turned to radio, joining the ‘ABC TalkRadio Network’ in 1991. ‘The Deborah Norville Show: From Her Home to Yours’ aired from her homes in New York and Long Island. The show was a huge hit, lasting a full year until 1992 when Deborah returned to her TV broadcasting career. She began working as a correspondent for ‘CBS News’ in 1992 and has appeared on programs such as ’48 Hours’ and ‘Street Stories.’

She became the only anchor of the syndicated news magazine ‘Inside Edition’ in 1995. The show grew popular after her appearance and is still running today. After 20 years as the show’s anchor, Norville became the longest-running female anchor on American television in 2015. Norville has also established herself as a novelist.

She has written for ‘Inside Sports.’ Her first book, ‘Back on Track: How to Straighten Out Your Life When Life Throws You a Curve,’ was published in 1997. It was inspired by her time working on ‘The Today Show.’ ‘Thank You Power: Making the Science of Gratitude Work for You,’ she authored in 2007. It made the ‘New York Times Best Sellers’ list.

Aside from that, she has authored a few children’s books and one of her books is exclusively dedicated to the art of knitting. She appeared in a couple of infomercials in 2008, promoting anti-aging creams and lotions. She worked with ‘Premier Yarns’ to bring the ‘Deborah Norville Collection’ of knits and yarns to market. In March 2013, she was appointed to the board of directors of ‘Viacom Corporation.’

Awards

Deborah Norville has two national Emmy awards. She earned an Emmy for her role in NBC’s coverage of Romania’s democratic rise for Today. Similarly, she valiantly covered the 1994 Mississippi floods, for which she got her second ‘Emmy’ Award.

Deborah Norville’s Salary and Net Worth

She has been on different shows, and her estimated net worth is $6 million, which includes earnings from her written works.

Deborah Norville’s Husband, Marriage & Relationship

Deborah married Karl Wellner, a Swedish businessman, in 1987. The couple has two sons, Kyle Wellner (born in 1995) and Mikaela Wellner (born in 1998), as well as a beautiful daughter, Niki Wellner (b. 1991).

Deborah Norville is a social media expert.

She spends a lot of time on her social media sites. Her Instagram account (@deborahnorville) has 19k followers, while her Twitter account (@DeborahNorville) has 21k followers. She also has a Facebook profile with 38k followers (@OfficialDeborahNorville).

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