11 Facts About Fred Norris

1.

Eric Fred Norris was born on Fred Leo Nukis; July 9,1955 and is an American radio personality and the longest-tenured staff member of The Howard Stern Show, aside from Stern himself.

2.

Fred Norris is the son of Valija Kronberg and Henry Nukis who were Latvian immigrants.

3.

When Stern became a ratings hit at WWDC in Washington, DC that year, he was able to use his success as leverage to persuade the station to hire Fred Norris, who started as the producer on Stern's show in October 1981.

4.

Fred Norris later moved with Stern to New York to work at WNBC in September 1982, and has been with the show ever since.

5.

Fred Norris has appeared in several small television and movie roles.

6.

Fred Norris played a younger version of himself in Private Parts in 1997.

7.

In 1994, Fred Norris married Allison Furman, a woman he originally met on the "Dial-A-Date" segment of Stern's radio show broadcast on April 10,1987.

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8.

Fred Norris responded by stating that no one referred to him as Eric.

9.

Fred Norris went into detail that that was not the reason he changed his name in the first place.

10.

Stern revealed he was bewildered why Fred Norris went to the lengths to legally change his name if nobody called him Eric.

11.

Fred Norris said that the decision was based on the fact that he had a hostile relationship with his father.