1. Abigail Haight Huntsman was born on May 1,1986 and is an American journalist and television personality.
21 Facts About Abby Huntsman
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Abby Huntsman co-hosted the ABC talk show The View from September 2018 to January 2020.
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Abby Huntsman was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on May 1,1986.
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Abby Huntsman was raised in Utah but spent several years in Taiwan and Singapore during her father's foreign postings as a US ambassador.
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Abby Huntsman attended the University of Utah for her freshman year of college while her father was running for governor.
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Abby Huntsman transferred to the University of Pennsylvania, where she graduated in 2008 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and communications.
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At age 16, Abby Huntsman worked a behind-the-scenes position at Good Morning America.
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Abby Huntsman disliked it so much that she contemplated giving up on television "forever".
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Abby Huntsman later became a host and producer for HuffPost Live, the HuffPosts streaming network.
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Abby Huntsman worked on her father's 2012 presidential campaign as a media advisor and surrogate, during which she and her sisters were profiled by The New Yorker, GQ, and BuzzFeed.
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Abby Huntsman appeared as a political commentator for ABC News in Washington, DC and Good Morning America in New York City.
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In October 2012, Abby Huntsman was profiled in ABC News's "Five Questions", a part of This Week with George Stephanopoulos.
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In July 2013, Huntsman joined MSNBC's The Cycle, filling a vacancy created by the departure of former panelist S E Cupp.
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Abby Huntsman was the second replacement host to join the show after Ari Melber.
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Abby Huntsman sought to bring conservative views to the program, and denied that her relation to the Huntsman family had anything to do with her acquiring the position since she, in her own words, "went through the same audition process as everybody else", against a field she recalled featured several hundred candidates.
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Two years later, in July 2015, MSNBC canceled the show, and Abby Huntsman left the network.
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In October 2015, Abby Huntsman was hired by Fox News as a general assignment reporter.
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Abby Huntsman covered the news of the day across the network's daytime and primetime programming.
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On September 4,2018, Abby Huntsman joined the long-running ABC talk show The View as one of five co-hosts along with Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg, Sunny Hostin, and Meghan McCain.
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In January 2020, Abby Huntsman announced that she was departing The View after two seasons to become a senior advisor to her father's 2020 campaign for governor of Utah; she made her final appearance as a co-host on the January 17,2020 episode.
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Abby Huntsman's father lost Utah's 2020 Republican gubernatorial primary to Spencer Cox.