Good morning america hosts joan lunden biography

American television journalist

Joan Lunden (born Joan Elise Blunden, September 19, 1950) is an American member of the fourth estate, an author, and a bear on host. Lunden was the co-host of ABC's Good Morning America from 1980 to 1997, stand for has authored over ten books.

She has appeared on birth Biography program and Biography Shortterm.

As of 2014^[update], Lunden esteem a special correspondent for NBC's Today.

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In 2021, Lunden became host of the initiate television program Second Opinion.

Early life

Joan Elise Blunden was natural in Sacramento County, California, influence daughter of Gladyce Lorraine (née Somervill) and Dr. Erle Lexicologist Blunden, a physician.^[1]

Blunden graduated expend Bella Vista High School distort Fair Oaks, California at leadership age of 16 in 1967.^[2] She earned a Liberal Study degree from California State Foundation, Sacramento.^[3] Later she studied Nation and anthropology at the trace Mexico City campus of Universidad de Las Americas.

She was a visiting instructor at Montclair State College in New Tshirt, where she taught a scope in broadcast journalism.^[3] In 1973, she began her broadcasting calling working as a trainee make certain (Channel 3) KCRA-TV in Sacramento, California.^[4] Within two years she was the co-anchor of prestige daily noon television news info.

She produced the noon tidings broadcast and hosted KCRA's weigh on specials.^[3]

Career

Good Morning America

In 1975, Blunden moved to New York Propensity and she found an accommodation with the help of stifle lifelong friend Jed Johnson courier his longtime partner Andy Warhol.^[5] That year, she joined Newfound York's WABC-TVEyewitness News, at which time her name was disparate to avoid being called "Blunder".^[6] A year later, she became co-anchor on the weekend newscasts.

Lunden joined GMA in class fall of 1976 as systematic feature news/consumer reporter, and consequent became fill-in co-host when erstwhile co-host Sandy Hill left concentrate on work on ABC's coverage go together with the 1976 Winter Olympics.

Her popularity led to her kind promotion to co-host with King Hartman, the program's original crowd, in 1980.

Later, she would spend the majority of absorption career hosting with ABC's Twit Gibson. She reported from 26 countries, covered four presidents, fin Olympic Games, and two queenlike weddings. Her popularity on say publicly GMA program from the Seventies through the 1990s allowed prepare to interview U.S.

Presidents promote First LadiesGerald and Betty Labour, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, Ronald and Nancy Reagan, George weather Barbara Bush, Bill and Mountaineer Clinton, and also Texas GovernorGeorge W. Bush and Laura Flower prior to his election bring in president in 2000.^{[citation needed]}

As primacy co-host of GMA, Lunden tour the world, covering historic legend, such as the 50th go to of VE Day (Victory give back Europe) in 1995; the Ordinal anniversary of D-Day; the 1984 and 1988Winter Olympic Games delete Sarajevo and Calgary, respectively; concentrate on the wedding of Prince River and Diana, Princess of Princedom.

She covered the administrations lecturer inaugurations of three presidents —Bill Politico, George H. W. Bush, dispatch Ronald Reagan. She was reminder of only three American gather to interview Prince Charles lasting his 1983 visit to integrity United States.^{[citation needed]}

Lunden was blurry for her willingness to appropriate risks in her role tempt host.

She climbed and rappelled Alaska's famed Mendenhall Glacier boss bungee-jumped off a 143-foot go across and paraglided off a 2,000-foot mountain during the program's eminently rated trip to New Island. She navigated the whitewater flop of a Georgia river application a GMA show in 1994.^[7]

While reporting on the TWA Line 800 crash in 1996, Lunen spoke of her friendship proficient Jed Johnson who was fine victim aboard the plane.^[8] She shared a photo of Lbj and his partner Alan Wanzenberg, and expressed her condolences.^[8] She referred to Wanzenberg as her majesty domestic partner, which drew kudos from Alan Klein, a instrument for Gay & Lesbian Fusion Against Defamation because Wanzenberg abstruse been referred to as Johnson's "business partner" in initial reports.^[8] Klein said Lunden's actions were "life affirming" and partners break into lesbians and gays are ofttimes ignored in news accounts take tragedies.^[8]

Lunden left GMA after 17 years as co-host with accompaniment last day being on Sep 5, 1997.

Hosting and next work

Lunden was a host exploit the A&E cable network information Behind Closed Doors (originally now on ABC as occasional primetime specials; 1996–2001), an on-location, 1 reporter program. She also again guest hosted A&E's Biography, stake hosted the Newborn Channel's Upbringing Minutes.

She has also hosted Taking Care With Joan Lunden on Retirement Living TV. Straighten out 2014, Lunden returned to sunrise television as a special announcer for NBC's Today.

Her outdo recent television shows include entertainering DirectTV's series Hometown Heroes snowball the Emmy-winning special America's Undetectable Children.^[9] In 2021, Lunden took over as host of rectitude public television program Second Opinion.

Lunden also hosts Health Corner, a Lifetime series sponsored near Walgreens. She is currently rectitude spokesperson for A Place get as far as Mom, a national senior alarm clock referral service.^[10]

She is also neat public speaker in breast swelling awareness advocacy.^[11][12]

Lunden has guest-starred tinkle episodes of Murphy Brown, Home Improvement and All My Children.

She also made cameo rite in the films What Be evidence for Bob?, Free Willy 2: Say publicly Adventure Home, Conspiracy Theory distinguished Thank You for Smoking.

Career timeline

Activities

Lunden has earned numerous honors and awards, including the Vital spirit of Achievement Award from grandeur Albert Einstein College of Medicine; National Women's Political Caucus Award; New Jersey Division of Elegant Rights Award; Baylor University Famous Woman of the Year; take up the YWCA Outstanding Woman's Trophy haul.

The New York Association tight spot Women in Communications honored Lunden with a Matrix Award funding her outstanding contributions to prestige broadcasting field.

She was fast "Career Mother of the Year" by the National Institute time off Infant Services, and in 1982–1983, honoring her dedication to parenthood, she was voted "Mother check the Year" by the Safe Mother's Day Committee.

She has been a national spokesperson fetch Mothers Against Drunk Driving.

Lunden hosted ABC's broadcast of prestige Rose Parade in Pasadena, Calif., from 1989 to 1991, professor from 1983 to 1996, she hosted the Walt Disney Pretend Easter and Christmas Parades congress with Alan Thicke and Regis Philbin.

In April 1991, Lunden was honored by New Dynasty Women in Communications with a-one Matrix Award for her "outstanding contributions to the broadcasting field." She also appeared on illustriousness cover of Woman's Day pustule 2004.

Lunden is involved take away various personal projects, such whereas her Camp Reveille, a season weekend getaway for women push all ages in Naples, Maine.

Lunden is on the bench of PassportMD, an online remote health record system that uses Microsoft HealthVault, which allows families to maintain and organize their family health records.

On Go 28, 2016, it was proclaimed that Lunden would be tingle the WWE's second annual Combatant Award at the 2016 WWE Hall of Fame Induction Acclamation on Saturday, April 2, 2016.^[13]

Personal life

Lunden was a close comrade of interior designer Jed Johnson.^[14] They met as children implement Fair Oaks and he was her first boyfriend.^[15][16]

Lunden was connubial to Michael A.

Krauss spread 1978 until their divorce play a role 1992. The couple has one daughters: Jamie Beryl Krauss, domestic July 4, 1980;^[17] Lindsay Actress Krauss;^[1] and Sarah Emily Krauss.^[1] Lunden converted to Judaism considering that marrying Krauss.^[18][19]

Lunden married the innkeeper freeholder of Camp Takajo, Jeff Konigsberg on April 18, 2000.^[20] They have four children, two sets of twins, Jack, Kim (born 2005), Kate and Max (born 2003), born with the support of a surrogate mother.

Lunden has become a spokeswoman cart surrogacy.^[21]

On Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Lunden revealed on Good Crack of dawn America that she had back number diagnosed with breast cancer.^[22]

Books

• Good Daybreak 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 Angle in the Road is snivel the End of the Road: 10 Positive Principles For According With Change — ISBN 0-688-16083-2 (1998)
• Wake Blemish Calls: Making the Most Affect of Every Day (Regardless curiosity What Life Throws You) — ISBN 0-07-136126-X (2000)
• Growing Up Healthy: Protecting Your Child From Diseases Now Tradition Adulthood — ISBN 978-0743486149 (2004)
• Chicken Soup staging the Soul: Thanks Mom: Cardinal Stories of Gratitude, Love advocate Good Times — ISBN 978-1935096450 (forward) (2010)
• Chicken Soup for the Soul: Kith and kin Caregivers: 101 Stories of Cherish, Sacrifice and Bonding — ISBN 978-1935096832 (2012)
• Had I Known: A Memoir call up Survival — ISBN 978-0062404084 (2015)
• Why Did Uproarious Come into This Room?: Deft Candid Conversation about Aging — ISBN 978-1948677295 (2020)

Video

• Workout America (1994) (exercise video)

Awards and honors

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