Who is Deborah Roberts?
Deborah Ann Roberts is a well-known American television journalist for the ABC News division of the ABC broadcast television network.
Deborah Roberts Career
Roberts started her career at WTVM, a local television station in Columbus, Georgia in 1982. She then moved on to work at WBIR, a local television station in Knoxville, Tennessee. Roberts worked as bureau chief/NASA field reporter/weekend news co-anchor at WFTV, a local television station in Orlando, Florida from 1987 to 1990. In 1990, she then joined NBC News as a general-assignment reporter and then worked as a correspondent for Dateline NBC, an NBC News newsmagazine program.
In 1995, Deborah moved to ABC News as a correspondent for 20/20, a newsmagazine program. She also served as an anchor for World News Tonight Weekend, the weekend evening news program, and for Good Morning America, the morning news program. Roberts was a guest host on The View, a talk show produced by ABC Daytime, a division of ABC, in July and September 2006. She then earned an Emmy Award and a Clarion Award for her reporting.
She has contributed to other of the network’s platforms such as Good Morning America, Nightime, Primetime, and The Katie Couric Show. Roberts currently hosts Lifetime Live on Lifetime Television, a cable and satellite television channel. A non-fiction book, Been There, Done That; Family Wisdom for Modern Times, written by Deborah and her husband Al Roker was published in 2016.
How old is Deborah Roberts?
Deborah Ann Roberts was born on September 20, 1960, in Perry, Georgia, U.S., and is aged 62 as of 2022. She shares her birthday with famous celebrities including Gabriella Lewitton, Katrina Stuart, Ellie Louise, Jon Bernthal, Sophia Loren, Charlie Weber, Van Jones, Carlos Hyde, and Martin Linnes, among others.
Deborah Roberts Family
Who are Roberts’s parents?
Deborah Ann Roberts was born in Perry, Georgia to Ruth Roberts and Benjamin Roberts. Her father is a business owner while her mother is a housewife.
Does Roberts have siblings?
She was born into a family of two children as the youngest child to their parents. Deborah has one older sibling, sister Tina Clarington.
Deborah Roberts Education
Roberts attended Henry W. Gardy College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia and graduated with a Bachelor of Journalism in 1982. She was then awarded the University of Georgia Distinguished Alumnus Award for her rapid success as a journalist in 1992.
Deborah Roberts Spouse
Roberts is currently married to Al Roker, an American weather presenter, journalist, and television personality. The couple married in September 1995 and have two children together, residing in Manhattan.
Deborah Roberts Children
Roberts and her spouse, Roker have two children together in their marriage. They have a daughter Leila Roker and a son, Nicholas Albert Roker. She also has a stepdaughter from Roker’s previous marriage.
Deborah Roberts Height
Roberts has a stunning, beautiful, and well-curved body with an average height of 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) and a weight of 58 kg (127 lbs).
Deborah Roberts Net Worth
American television journalist Roberts has been active from 1982 to the present and currently works for the ABC broadcast television network. She has been able to gather an accumulative net worth of around $10 million as of 2022.