11 Facts About Kiran Chetry

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Kiran Carrie Chetry is a former American television broadcast journalist who, until 2011, was a cable news anchor for CNN's American Morning.

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Kiran Chetry's parents met while Nancy was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Nepal.

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Kiran Chetry grew up in Gaithersburg, Maryland and attended Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland, where she served in student government, danced on the pom squad, and competed on the swim team.

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Kiran Chetry began her career in 1995 at News 21 in Rockville, Maryland.

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In 1999 Kiran Chetry went from WICU-TV to KXTV in Sacramento, California to work as a morning anchor and reporter until joining Fox News Channel.

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In 2001 Kiran Chetry joined the cable news network Fox News Channel as a general reporter, first appearing on March 8,2001, in a story about eating ice cream.

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The next year Kiran Chetry was honored with the Making our Mark Award from the Association of Nepalis in the Americas.

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Kiran Chetry's agent countered that the allegation of Kiran Chetry's wanting Carlson fired was "absolutely false".

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On February 16,2007, Kiran Chetry began work as a CNN anchor and correspondent.

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Kiran Chetry went on to substitute as an anchor for Paula Zahn Now and CNN Newsroom.

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Kiran Chetry was divorced from Chris Knowles, a former Fox News Channel and New York City WPIX-TV weekend weathercaster in 2013.