A graduate of the , Julie Chen is a television personality and a news anchor from the United States. At the age of , she has become a well-known TV producer and widely popular as the host of the reality TV show, .
Julie Chen's early life
Julie, who is nicknamed Chenbot, was born as Julie Suzanne Chen on , in Queens, New York City, US, to parents father David Y. Chen, and mother Wang Ling Chen. She is an American but is of the Burmese Chinese descent.
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Julie Chen's grandfather, Lou Gaw Tong, was a poor man but through a chain of grocery stores became wealthy. With wealth, he also became a polygamist and had nine wives with 11 children. Julie has elder sisters Gladys and Victoria.
The received her elementary education at the in the Whitestone area of Queens. She later joined the and then graduated from there in . She also holds a degree in from the . Furthermore, she also graduated in at age the same year with a major in .
Julie Chen's journalism career
In , she worked as an intern at the alongside Andy Cohen. During that internship, she just answered phones and copied faxes for distribution. In , she joined the for one season. She worked as a desk assistant during her time there.
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Later, she was promoted to work as a producer for three years after which she joined the in and served there as a news anchor till .
Before joining the CBS again, she was a reporter and weekend anchor for the in New York.
In , Chen got back to what she started from but at a much higher level. She was the anchor of the and also alongside Bryant Gumbel, Jane Clayson, Hanna Storm, Maggie Rodriguez, Erica Hill, and Rene Syler.
In , she was a co-host of the CBS show, until , until the show itself was canceled. Later, she started appearing on the . The show premiered on .
The show currently features Sharon Osbourne, Sara Gilbert, and Sheryl Underwood.
The lady has also been a regular host for the American version of the reality TV show . The first season of the show was full of criticism for her as the audience thought that the lady's delivery was highly scripted. This earned her the nickname, Chenbot.
Recently, Julie talked about a secondary show, a spinoff of Big Brother on CBS. The spinoff was proposed to showcase the way of operation of the Jury House but, due to cost difficulties, the show has not yet been on-air. According to Chenbot, the show would come out one day.
Julie guest-starred in the episode portraying a U.S. Ambassador in .
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Julie Chen's Awards
The lovely lady has been nominated in the for a total of five times. But, luck has not been with her as she has only won once. It was in that she won the . She received the award for the category for her show, alongside her other co-hosts.
