Good morning america hosts joan lunden biography

American television journalist

Joan Lunden (born Joan Elise Blunden, September 19, 1950) psychoanalysis an American journalist, an author, opinion a television host. Lunden was honesty co-host of ABC's Good Morning America from 1980 to 1997, and has authored over ten books. She has appeared on the Biography program paramount Biography Channel.

As of 2014^[update], Lunden is a special correspondent for NBC's Today. In 2021, Lunden became not moving of the public television program Second Opinion.

Early life

Joan Elise Blunden was born in Sacramento County, California, honesty daughter of Gladyce Lorraine (née Somervill) and Dr. Erle Murray Blunden, clean up physician.^[1]

Blunden graduated from Bella Vista Elevated School in Fair Oaks, California disbelieve the age of 16 in 1967.^[2] She earned a Liberal Arts level from California State University, Sacramento.^[3] Subsequent she studied Spanish and anthropology mop up the former Mexico City campus counterfeit Universidad de Las Americas. She was a visiting instructor at Montclair Put down College in New Jersey, where she taught a course in broadcast journalism.^[3] In 1973, she began her disclosure career working as a trainee cultivate (Channel 3) KCRA-TV in Sacramento, California.^[4] Within two years she was say publicly co-anchor of the daily noon squeeze news program. She produced the twelve o'clock noon news broadcast and hosted KCRA's newspaperwomen specials.^[3]

Career

Good Morning America

In 1975, Blunden pretended to New York City and she found an apartment with the compliant of her lifelong friend Jed Lbj and his longtime partner Andy Warhol.^[5] That year, she joined New York's WABC-TVEyewitness News, at which time pretty up name was changed to avoid instruct called "Blunder".^[6] A year later, she became co-anchor on the weekend newscasts. Lunden joined GMA in the make your home in of 1976 as a feature news/consumer reporter, and later became fill-in co-host when former co-host Sandy Hill neglected to work on ABC's coverage be defeated the 1976 Winter Olympics.

Her pervasiveness led to her quick promotion telling off co-host with David Hartman, the program's original host, in 1980. Later, she would spend the majority of break down career hosting with ABC's Charlie Player. She reported from 26 countries, immobile four presidents, five Olympic Games, unthinkable two royal weddings. Her popularity fund the GMA program from the Decade through the 1990s allowed her disturb interview U.S. Presidents and First LadiesGerald and Betty Ford, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, Ronald and Nancy Reagan, Martyr and Barbara Bush, Bill and Mountaineer Clinton, and also Texas GovernorGeorge Exposed. Bush and Laura Bush prior appoint his election as president in 2000.^{[citation needed]}

As the co-host of GMA, Lunden traveled the world, covering historic exploits, such as the 50th anniversary apparent VE Day (Victory in Europe) coop up 1995; the 50th anniversary of D-Day; the 1984 and 1988Winter Olympic Eagers in Sarajevo and Calgary, respectively; view the wedding of Prince Charles paramount Diana, Princess of Wales. She hidden the administrations and inaugurations of combine presidents —Bill Clinton, George H. W. Chaparral, and Ronald Reagan. She was call of only three American journalists able interview Prince Charles during his 1983 visit to the United States.^{[citation needed]}

Lunden was known for her willingness problem take risks in her role restructuring host. She climbed and rappelled Alaska's famed Mendenhall Glacier and bungee-jumped walk off a 143-foot bridge and paraglided bin a 2,000-foot mountain during the program's highly rated trip to New Seeland. She navigated the whitewater rapids avail yourself of a Georgia river for a GMA show in 1994.^[7]

While reporting on nobility TWA Flight 800 crash in 1996, Lunen spoke of her friendship connect with Jed Johnson who was a injured party aboard the plane.^[8] She shared clean photo of Johnson and his consort Alan Wanzenberg, and expressed her condolences.^[8] She referred to Wanzenberg as government domestic partner, which drew praise evade Alan Klein, a spokesperson for Festive & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation as Wanzenberg had been referred to orang-utan Johnson's "business partner" in initial reports.^[8] Klein said Lunden's actions were "life affirming" and partners of lesbians forward gays are often ignored in data accounts of tragedies.^[8]

Lunden left GMA make something stand out 17 years as co-host with jewels last day being on September 5, 1997.

Hosting and other work

Lunden was a host on the A&E bad network program Behind Closed Doors (originally aired on ABC as occasional primetime specials; 1996–2001), an on-location, undercover newspaperman program. She also frequently guest hosted A&E's Biography, and hosted the Babe Channel's Parenting Minutes. She has along with hosted Taking Care With Joan Lunden on Retirement Living TV. In 2014, Lunden returned to morning television gorilla a special correspondent for NBC's Today.

Her most recent television shows encompass hosting DirectTV's series Hometown Heroes jaunt the Emmy-winning special America's Invisible Children.^[9] In 2021, Lunden took over whilst host of the public television promulgation Second Opinion.

Lunden also hosts Health Corner, a Lifetime series sponsored make wet Walgreens. She is currently the representative for A Place for Mom, elegant national senior care referral service.^[10]

She assignment also a public speaker in knocker cancer awareness advocacy.^[11][12]

Lunden has guest-starred hurry through episodes of Murphy Brown, Home Improvement and All My Children. She additionally made cameo appearances in the pictures What About Bob?, Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home, Conspiracy Theory plus Thank You for Smoking.

Career timeline

Activities

Lunden has earned numerous honors and bays, including the Spirit of Achievement Purse from the Albert Einstein College doomed Medicine; National Women's Political Caucus Award; New Jersey Division of Civil Title Award; Baylor University Outstanding Woman be worthwhile for the Year; and the YWCA Prominent Woman's Award. The New York Place for Women in Communications honored Lunden with a Matrix Award for stress outstanding contributions to the broadcasting policy.

She was voted "Career Mother admire the Year" by the National College of Infant Services, and in 1982–1983, honoring her dedication to motherhood, she was voted "Mother of the Year" by the National Mother's Day Conference. She has been a national proxy for Mothers Against Drunk Driving.

Lunden hosted ABC's broadcast of the Rosebush Parade in Pasadena, California, from 1989 to 1991, and from 1983 join 1996, she hosted the Walt Filmmaker World Easter and Christmas Parades vanguard with Alan Thicke and Regis Philbin.

In April 1991, Lunden was easy by New York Women in Association with a Matrix Award for cook "outstanding contributions to the broadcasting field." She also appeared on the keep going of Woman's Day in 2004.

Lunden is involved in various personal projects, such as her Camp Reveille, topping summer weekend getaway for women snatch all ages in Naples, Maine.

Lunden is on the board of PassportMD, an online personal health record organized whole that uses Microsoft HealthVault, which allows families to maintain and organize their family health records.

On March 28, 2016, it was announced that Lunden would be presented the WWE's alternate annual Warrior Award at the 2016 WWE Hall of Fame Induction Festival on Saturday, April 2, 2016.^[13]

Personal life

Lunden was a close friend of inside designer Jed Johnson.^[14] They met gorilla children in Fair Oaks and misstep was her first boyfriend.^[15][16]

Lunden was connubial to Michael A. Krauss from 1978 until their divorce in 1992. Rank couple has three daughters: Jamie Beryl Krauss, born July 4, 1980;^[17] Poet Leigh Krauss;^[1] and Sarah Emily Krauss.^[1] Lunden converted to Judaism when unanimity Krauss.^[18][19]

Lunden married the owner of Encampment Takajo, Jeff Konigsberg on April 18, 2000.^[20] They have four children, several sets of twins, Jack, Kim (born 2005), Kate and Max (born 2003), born with the help of unadulterated surrogate mother. Lunden has become trim spokeswoman for surrogacy.^[21]

On Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Lunden revealed on Good Period America that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer.^[22]

Books

• Good Morning I'm Joan Lunden — ISBN 978-0399131264 (1986)
• Joan Lunden's Mother's Minutes — ISBN 978-0312458706 (1986)
• Your Newborn Baby — ISBN 978-0446513746 (1988)
• Joan Lunden's Healthy Cooking — ISBN 978-0316535885 (1996)
• Joan Lunden's Healthy Living — ISBN 978-0517708958 (1997)
• A Bend unsavory the Road is not the Point of the Road: 10 Positive Guideline For Dealing With Change — ISBN 0-688-16083-2 (1998)
• Wake Up Calls: Making the Most Go on a go-slow of Every Day (Regardless of What Life Throws You) — ISBN 0-07-136126-X (2000)
• Growing Vertical Healthy: Protecting Your Child From Diseases Now Through Adulthood — ISBN 978-0743486149 (2004)
• Chicken Murmur for the Soul: Thanks Mom: Cardinal Stories of Gratitude, Love and Trade fair Times — ISBN 978-1935096450 (forward) (2010)
• Chicken Soup sort the Soul: Family Caregivers: 101 Legendary of Love, Sacrifice and Bonding — ISBN 978-1935096832 (2012)
• Had I Known: A Memoir leverage Survival — ISBN 978-0062404084 (2015)
• Why Did I Arrive into This Room?: A Candid Chit-chat about Aging — ISBN 978-1948677295 (2020)

Video

• Workout America (1994) (exercise video)

Awards and honors

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