Arthel Biography
Arthel Neville is an American journalist, television personality working asss the anchor of the FOX News Channel (FNC). She began contributing to the network in 1998 and remained there until 2001. In 2010, she rejoined FNC as an anchor.
How old is Neville?
Born Arthel Helena Neville, the Fox news journalist is 62 years old as of 20 October 2024. She was born on 20 October 1962 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
Is Arthel related to Aaron Neville?
Neville is the daughter of Doris Neville and Art Neville, who founded the New Orleans musical groups The Hawketts, The Meters, and The Neville Brothers and is a Grammy Award-winning singer, composer, keyboardist, and solo artist. She is the cousin of vocalist Ivan Neville and the niece of Grammy Award-winning musician Aaron Neville.
Is Neville still married?
From 1995 until 1998, she was wed to Derrick Lassic, a former NFL running back. Since 2001, she has been wed to Taku Hirano, a recording artist and percussionist.
Arthel Neville Education
Arthel received his diploma from New Orleans’ St. Mary’s Dominican High School. She went to New York City to pursue modeling and performing after graduating. Before going back to New Orleans, she got commercials and a little part on the soap opera All My Children. She attended Xavier University to study pre-pharmacy before transferring to Southern Methodist University to study journalism. After transferring, she worked as a reporter and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin.
Arthel’s Salary and Net Worth
Her annual pay probably falls between $100,000 and $500,000. She has an estimated net worth of $1.5 Million.
What is Neville doing now?
Her general assignment beat took her to the streets of Austin to cover live breaking news, politics, education, health, and human-interest issues. She was the first female African-American on-air reporter at KVUE-TV.
After graduating, Neville’s first job was as a reporter/anchor for WWL in New Orleans.She returned to Texas in 1988 to work as a reporter for Houston’s KHOU-TV for a year.Neville came back to New Orleans to work as a reporter and anchor for WVUE.
She co-produced Extreme Close-Up, a one-on-one celebrity interview program for E! Entertainment TV, and was hired as its host in 1991.She became the first prominent black female entertainment reporter in the country during her three years with the show, doing more than 200 interviews with celebrities from the entertainment industry, including Will Smith, Tom Cruise, and Sharon Stone, as well as music legends like Sade, Whitney Houston, and David Bowie.
She also covered live entertainment events for the network during this time, and she occasionally filled in as a guest host on Talk Soup, their hallmark show presented by Greg Kinnear.
She was the first African-American woman to lead a nationally syndicated entertainment news magazine program when she launched and anchored Extra for Warner Brothers Studios in 1994, defeating over 1,000 other applicants. Neville stuck with Extra until the show was redesigned in 1996. She co-hosted The Arthel & Fred Show, a syndicated daytime entertainment news program that ran for just one season in 1997, with Los Angeles sportscaster Fred Roggin.
Neville moved from Los Angeles to New York a year later, where he worked as an anchor, correspondent, host of Celebrity Spotlight, and monthly contributor on The O’Reilly Factor. He also became a senior correspondent on Fox Files, the syndicated news magazine of the Fox Network.
Neville co-hosted the Miss Teen USA pageant in 1993 alongside Dick Clark, and he co-hosted the Miss Universe event in Manila, Philippines, in 1994 alongside Bob Goen of Entertainment Tonight. In addition, she has made appearances on Living Single, Moesha, Cybill, Girlfriends, Monk, Days of Our Lives, and The Fresh Prince of Bel Air.
Neville became the first African-American woman to anchor her own hallmark show on CNN when she joined the network in 2002 to broadcast TalkBack Live with Arthel Neville. In addition to presenting the day’s news, the hybrid format show included live in-studio, phone, satellite, and online interaction with viewers and guests.She co-anchored weekend news with Anderson Cooper from CNN’s Atlanta and New York City bureaus, in addition to anchoring morning and midday news while she was employed there.
The University of Texas at Austin honored Neville in 2003 for her exceptional broadcast journalism contributions. Four University of Texas graduates under 45 who have achieved a high degree of success in their fields are given the Texas Exes’ Outstanding Young Texas Ex Award, which she received.
Neville went on to host Celebrity Hobbies on the DIY Network, co-host Fox’s nationally syndicated morning show Good Day Live with Steve Edwards and Debbie Matenopoulos, and act as a correspondent for the 2005 relaunch of the syndicated news magazine A Current Affair. She received a lot of praise for her coverage of Hurricane Katrina in her hometown of New Orleans on that program. In March 2006, she joined the Fox News–produced syndicated news magazine Geraldo at Large as the West Coast bureau chief and correspondent.
In 2006, famed news anchor Arthel Neville made her debut as a guest co-host on The View. She started working as the primary anchor for Fox 5 Morning News on KSWB-TV in San Diego in 2008. She developed Conversations with Arthel Neville, a one-on-one celebrity interview program that debuted on Sky TV’s My Channel, and she was a regular guest on HLN Showbiz Tonight. She rejoined Fox News in 2010 to serve as a news anchor for Happening Now, America’s Newsroom, and America’s News Headquarters. She became the first African American woman to receive the DeWitt Carter Reddick journalism award from the Moody College of Communication in 2017. Additionally, Neville introduced her accessories brand, Arthel Neville Design, which included purses adorned with her sayings advocating for women’s empowerment.
The interactive, weekly cross-platform singing competition “Sing Like A Star” by Tegna, Inc., which was filmed in New Orleans, was presented by her in 2017. She gave the keynote address at the commencement of The University of Texas at Austin’s Moody College of Communication in 2018. In March 2021, America’s News Headquarters changed the name of their weekend newscast to “Fox News Live.”