Montel Brian Anthony Williams was born on July 3,1956 and is an American television host, actor and motivational speaker.
48 Facts About Montel Williams
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Montel Williams is known for hosting the long-running daytime tabloid talk show The Montel Williams Show, which ran in syndication from 1991 to 2008.
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Montel Williams was a good student, athlete, and musician, and he was active in countywide student government issues in Annapolis, Maryland.
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Montel Williams was raised as a Roman Catholic and served as an altar server in the Catholic Church.
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Montel Williams frequently visited his sister, who lives in Westminster, Maryland.
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Montel Williams enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 1974.
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Montel Williams completed the one-year Naval Academy Preparatory School course and then in 1975, he was accepted as the first black Marine into the four-year officer training program at the US Naval Academy.
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Montel Williams graduated in 1980 with a degree in general engineering and a minor in international security affairs.
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Montel Williams completed Naval Cryptologic Officer training, and spent 18 months in Guam as a cryptologic officer for naval intelligence.
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Montel Williams was later supervising cryptologic officer with the Naval Security Fleet Support Division at Fort Meade, Maryland.
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Montel Williams's awards include two Meritorious Service Medals, two Navy Commendation Medals, the National Defense Service Medal, the Navy Achievement Medal, two Navy Expeditionary Medals, the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal and two Humanitarian Service Medals.
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In 1996, Montel Williams received a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host.
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Montel Williams was again nominated for Outstanding Talk Show Host in 2002, and the Montel Williams Show was nominated for Outstanding Talk Show in 2001 and 2002.
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Speculation followed the end of The Montel Williams Show, which was cancelled immediately after Williams criticized mainstream news media's preference for stories about Hollywood stars over those about military personnel and events.
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Controversial self-declared psychic Sylvia Browne featured frequently on The Montel Williams Show from 1991 until its finale in 2008.
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Montel Williams described Browne as "the most-appearing guest on a talk show in the history of television" and "the longest-running guest in daytime television", and her appearances included particularly controversial incidents relating to kidnap victims Shawn Hornbeck and Amanda Berry.
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Montel Williams produced and starred in a short-lived television series called Matt Waters, which appeared on CBS in 1996.
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Montel Williams played an ex-Navy SEAL turned inner-city high school teacher.
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Montel Williams has guest-starred on The New Adventures of Robin Hood and Guiding Light.
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Montel Williams appeared in a Perry Mason movie in 1993 titled The Case Of The Telltale Talk Show Host.
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Montel Williams's character, Boomer Kelly, was a former football player who was appearing on a radio talk show whose owner was found murdered.
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Montel Williams was a voice actor in 2008 in the political satire film War, Inc.
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On October 1,2019, Montel Williams appeared in an episode of the Fox drama The Resident entitled, "Flesh of My Flesh".
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Montel Williams played himself, as a TV personality covering a nearly impossible cancer surgery being performed on an adoptive mother of seven.
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Montel Williams produced and narrated the Starline Films documentary film 4CHOSEN: The Documentary, which tells the story about the New Jersey Turnpike shooting in 1998, and the racial profiling case that followed the incident.
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In 1999, Montel Williams directed the film, Little Pieces, starring Grace Morley and Amy Acton.
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Montel Williams was a national spokesman of the Partnership for Prescription Assistance, a patient assistance program clearinghouse that helps low-income patients apply for free or reduced-price prescription drugs.
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In 2010 Montel Williams became chief spokesman for the Poker Training Network, now Card Geniuses, a MLM-based poker instruction and playing website.
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Montel Williams was a paid spokesperson for MoneyMutual, a lead generator for a payday lending service.
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Montel Williams denied the allegations, stating that Lamme was fundamentally incorrect in his assessment of the loans and their terms.
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Montel Williams added that the department had found that "Using Mr Williams's reputation as a trusted celebrity endorser, MoneyMutual marketed loans to struggling consumers with sky-high interest rates - sometimes in excess of 1,300 percent".
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Montel Williams has publicly lobbied for government action to promptly resolve the Veterans Affairs scandal.
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Later episodes of Living Well with Montel Williams advertised a home pressure cooker and an identity theft protection service.
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In June 2010, Montel Williams began doing infomercials for LifeLock, a security fraud company.
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On October 1,2014, Montel Williams spoke in front of a Congressional committee in support of Marine Sgt.
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Montel Williams was once a Republican, leaving the political party in 1993 and registering as an independent.
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Montel Williams endorsed Hillary Clinton for president as the superior choice, writing that Donald Trump posed a "clear and present danger" to the nation.
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On September 2,2021, Montel Williams was appointed as a Director on the Board of Better For You Wellness, Inc.
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Montel Williams has marketed Cannabidiol products.
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Montel Williams stated to Forbes "that he spent years working to develop medicinal-quality CBD to treat his own multiple sclerosis".
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Montel Williams married Grace Morley, an exotic dancer on June 6,1992.
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In 2001, Montel Williams briefly dated Kamala Harris, who later went on to become Vice President of the United States after winning the 2020 election.
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In July 2006, Montel Williams proposed to girlfriend Tara Fowler, an American Airlines flight attendant.
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Montel Williams participated in the 2007 World Series of Poker main event, and planned to donate any potential winnings to American families affected by the Iraq War.
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Four months after making a guest appearance in an episode of Touched by an Angel, Montel Williams was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1999.
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Montel Williams has openly stated that he uses medical cannabis, stating it helps to ease his multiple sclerosis-caused neuropathic pain.
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Montel Williams has become a vocal advocate of cannabis, supporting efforts to pass medical cannabis laws in the United States, as well as calling for full legalization.
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Montel Williams was hospitalized on May 30,2018, when he had a cerebellar hemorrhagic stroke while working out at a gym.