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10 Facts About Sunny Anderson

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Sunny Anderson was born on April 9,1975 and is a Food Network personality.

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Sunny Anderson was born in Lawton, Oklahoma, and grew up as an Army brat, which allowed her to travel the world and sample many local cuisines with her parents, who were food enthusiasts.

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Sunny Anderson attended Madison High School in San Antonio, Texas, and upon her graduation, she joined the United States Air Force in June 1993, where she earned the rank of Senior Airman and worked as a military radio host in Seoul, South Korea.

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Sunny Anderson then worked for Air Force News Agency radio and television in San Antonio from 1993 to 1997.

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Sunny Anderson went to school in New Orleans at Loyola University.

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Between 1995 and 2001, Sunny Anderson worked as a radio personality at KCJZ and KONO-FM in San Antonio, WYLD-FM and KUMX in Fort Polk, Louisiana, WJWZ in Montgomery, Alabama, and WDTJ in Detroit, Michigan.

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Sunny Anderson settled in New York City in 2001 at the age of 26, and worked as a radio personality for HOT 97 in New York City from 2001 to 2003.

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In January 2014, Sunny Anderson became a co-host on the Food Network's series The Kitchen along with Jeff Mauro, Katie Lee, Marcela Valladolid, and Geoffrey Zakarian.

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Sunny Anderson has been a guest chef on several talk shows and morning news programs including The Rachael Ray Show, Good Morning America, The Early Show, The View, The Talk, as well as The Wendy Williams Show.

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In 2022, Sunny Anderson hosted NFL Tailgate Takedown along with New England Patriots Hall-of-Famer Vince Wilfork.