Deborah Norville is an American businesswoman and television journalist. Deborah Norville is well-known as the anchor of the television news magazine ‘Inside Edition.’ She had worked on the morning show Today and NBC Nightly News before joining the ViacomCBS board of directors.
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Deborah Norville’s age?
Deborah Norville was born in Dalton, Georgia, USA on August 8, 1958.
She was born under the sign of Leo and is 63 years old. Zachary Norville and Merle O. Norville are her parents.
Her father keeps camels, ostriches, and llamas in his zoo.
Her parents have four daughters, one of whom is her.
Patti Slivers and Cathy Amos are two of her three sisters.
Her siblings work at Norville Industries. She had inherited her mother’s sewing talent at a young age.
After her parents divorced, she moved in with her mother. Due to a terminal disease, her mother was usually bedridden.
Deborah was 20 years old when she died.
Norville won the local Junior Miss beauty competition for high school senior girls in her community.
She later went on to represent Georgia in America’s Junior Miss pageant in 1976.
She did not win, but it provided her with the impetus to shift her career goals from law to television journalism.
In 1999, she presented America’s Junior Miss.
Norville graduated from the University of Georgia with a bachelor’s degree.
She graduated from the university’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication with a BA in journalism in three years, summa cum laude with a perfect 4.0-grade point average.
She graduated with honors and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.
During her education, she was a member of the Delta DeltaDelta sorority and served on the Main Court of the University’s Student Judiciary.
More Facts about Deborah Norville
| Full Name: | Deborah Norville |
| Age: | 63 years |
| Birthday: | 08 Aug |
| Birthplace: | Dalton, Georgia, USA |
| Nationality: | American |
| Gender: | Female |
| Horoscope: | Leo |
| Husband: | Karl Wellner |
| Net Worth: | $6 million |
| Height: | 5 feet 8 inches (1.73m) |
| Profession: | TV journalist |
| Sibling: | Patti Slivers and Cathy Amos |
Deborah Norville’s net worth
Deborah Norville has two national Emmy awards.
She earned an Emmy for her work on NBC’s Today during the Romanian democratic uprising.
Similarly, she valiantly covered the 1994 Mississippi floods, earning her second ‘Emmy Award’ of her career.
She has been on television series, and her net worth is believed to be $6 million, which includes revenues from her writing.
Deborah Norville’s Husband and Children
In 1987, Deborah Norville married Swedish businessman Karl Wellner.
Kyle Wellner (born in 1995) and Mikaela Wellner (born in 1998) are the couple’s two sons, and Niki Wellner is their wonderful daughter (b. 1991).
Deborah Norville’s height
Deborah Norville has beautiful blue eyes and blonde hair.
She stands 5 feet 8 inches (173 cm) tall and weighs roughly 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.
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 38k followers on her Facebook page (@OfficialDeborahNorville).
Deborah Norville’s Professional Background
She began her career in television while still in college. ‘Georgia Public Television’ offered her a job.
She worked behind the scenes on ‘The Lawmakers,’ a TV show that covered the ‘Georgia General Assembly.’
A producer from ‘WAGA-TV’ recognized her while she was working there. Atlanta’s ‘WAGA-TV’ offered Norville a summer internship.
She reported for an evening show on the day she was hired as a reporter.
She was quickly hired as a full-time weekend correspondent.
She hadn’t yet graduated and was in her final year of college.
She was tasked with interviewing President Jimmy Carter in 1979.
They employed her as a weekend correspondent when she graduated from university in 1979.
She began to receive more job offers, and she eventually ended up working as a reporter for NBC station WMAQ-TV in Chicago.
She was hired as an anchor by NBC News after working there for a few years.
She joined NBC News in January 1987 as an anchor for the show NBC News at Sunrise.
At the time, she was the show’s sole female anchor.
On occasion, she also began anchoring NBC’s most popular news show, ‘The Today Show,’ popularly known as ‘Today.’
She hosted the NBC documentary “Bad Girls” in 1989.
The story centered on spoilt and abused adolescent females.
For the entire week, the documentary was the seventh-most-watched show on the channel.
In 1989, she was hired as a full-time host by ‘Today.’ She became a co-host of the show in 1990.
However, following Norville’s appearance on ‘Today,’ the show’s ratings plummeted.
Poor channel management was the primary reason for this.
She later took maternity leave in the early 1990s and did not return to the channel.
Instead, she moved to radio and joined the ‘ABC TalkRadio Network’ in 1991.
‘The Deborah Norville Show: From Her Home to Yours’ aired from her homes on Long Island and in New York.
The show was a big hit, lasting a full year before Deborah returned to her TV broadcasting career in 1992.
She started her career as a CBS News journalist in 1992 and has been on programs such as ’48 Hours’ and ‘Street Stories.’
She became the only anchor of the syndicated news magazine ‘Inside Edition’ in 1995.
After her arrival, the show became famous and is still on the air today.
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After 20 years as the show’s anchor, Norville became the longest-running female anchor on American television in 2015.
Norville is a published author as well. She has written for ‘Inside Sports.’
‘Back on Track: How to Straighten Out Your Life When It Throws You a Curve,’ her debut book, was published in 1997.
Her experiences working on ‘The Today Show’ inspired her.
In 2007, she released another book, ‘Thank You Power: Making the Science of Gratitude Work for You.’
It was listed among ‘The New York Times Best Sellers.’
Aside from that, she has written a few children’s books and one of them is fully dedicated to the art of knitting.
She participated in a couple of infomercials promoting anti-aging creams and lotions in 2008.
She worked with ‘Premier Yarns’ on the ‘Deborah Collection of knits and yarns.
She was named to the board of directors of ‘Viacom Corporation’ in March 2013.
