1. Christopher Edward Hansen was born on September 13,1959 and is an American television presenter, journalist, and YouTube personality.
28 Facts About Chris Hansen
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Chris Hansen co-founded the true crime-oriented streaming service TruBlu in 2020, where he produced and starred in the web series Takedown with Chris Hansen.
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Chris Hansen was born in Chicago, Illinois, on September 13,1959, and grew up in West Bloomfield Township and Birmingham, Michigan.
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Chris Hansen attended Brother Rice High School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
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Chris Hansen graduated from Michigan State University with a Bachelor of Arts in telecommunication in 1981.
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In 1981, Chris Hansen became a reporter for NBC affiliate WILX in Lansing, Michigan during his senior year at Michigan State University.
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Chris Hansen later reported for WFLA in Tampa, Florida, various newspapers and radio stations in Michigan and WXYZ in Detroit.
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In May 1993, Chris Hansen joined NBC News as a correspondent for the short-lived news magazine Now with Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric.
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Chris Hansen exposed how a group linked to Osama bin Laden had attempted to buy missiles and nuclear weapons components, and he worked on an exclusive report on the Air France Flight 8969 hijacking.
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In conjunction with the website Perverted-Justice, Chris Hansen hosted a series of Dateline NBC reports under the title To Catch a Predator.
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In 2015, Chris Hansen hosted Killer Instinct, a show on Investigation Discovery chronicling homicide cases.
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In 2015, Chris Hansen planned a new independent television show called Chris Hansen vs Predator, a spin-off of his original show To Catch a Predator.
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The program was intended to premiere online, crowdfunded via Kickstarter with Chris Hansen hoping to raise $400,000; however the Kickstarter only raised $89,000.
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Chris Hansen offered promotional memorabilia as part of the campaign that donors claimed to have never received, and he was arrested in January 2019 for paying for $13,000 worth of promotional items with a bad check.
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Chris Hansen debuted the first episode of Hansen vs Predator on September 12,2016, on Crime Watch Daily.
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On October 9,2019, Hansen started a YouTube channel under the name Have a Seat with Chris Hansen, featuring weekly podcasts tackling different topics and interviews with special guests.
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In January 2020, Chris Hansen visited Jackson's home in an attempt to interview him.
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Jackson filed a lawsuit against Chris Hansen, which took place on January 24,2020.
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Chris Hansen was named as an executive producer for Unseamly: The Investigation of Peter Nygard, a Discovery+ show which examines Peter Nygard's life from his birth to his downfall and arrest.
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Chris Hansen maintained a New York City apartment; however, in January, 2019 it was reported that he was evicted after failing to pay rent for the apartment since the previous August.
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In January 2019, Chris Hansen was charged with larceny after a check bounced with a vendor who delivered promotional items.
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Chris Hansen turned himself in to police in Connecticut on January 14,2019, for allegedly bouncing checks for nearly $13,000 worth of promotional materials, according to Stamford Police.
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In relation to a sting operation that occurred in October 2020, Chris Hansen was supposed to appear and present evidence in a Shiawassee County Courtroom in Michigan in July 2021.
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Chris Hansen later turned himself in, stating that his failure to appear in court was because of a misunderstanding, and the matter was resolved.
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On January 9,2007, Chris Hansen appeared on the BET news series American Gangster.
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Chris Hansen gave insight into the lives of the brothers based on the reporting he had done on them in the 1980s and 1990s as a reporter for ABC affiliate WXYZ and NBC affiliate WDIV.
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In 2020, Chris Hansen made a brief cameo himself in episode 1 of the second season of Amazon series The Boys.
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On October 12,2023, Chris Hansen made a guest appearance with Logan Paul in the KSI vs Tommy Fury final press conference, to confront Dillon Danis about his recent "predatory" behaviour towards model Nina Adgal.