1. William Russell Geist was born on May 3,1975 and is an American television personality and journalist.
26 Facts About Willie Geist
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Willie Geist is co-anchor of MSNBC's Morning Joe and anchor of Sunday Today with Willie Geist.
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Willie Geist is a correspondent for NBC News and NBC Sports, hosting and contributing to NBC's Olympic coverage.
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Willie Geist was born in Evanston, Illinois, the son of newspaper columnist and broadcast journalist Bill Willie Geist and social worker Jody.
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Willie Geist is of German, French, English, Irish, and Norwegian descent.
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Willie Geist is the older brother of Libby Willie Geist Wildes, the Academy Award-winning documentary film producer of OJ.
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Willie Geist is the great-grandson of former Detroit Red Wings star and Hockey Hall of Fame player Herbie Lewis.
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Willie Geist attended George Washington Middle School in Ridgewood, New Jersey, where he met his future wife, Christina Sharkey.
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Willie Geist was elected to New Jersey Boys State and the National Honor Society.
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Willie Geist was an editor of the school's newspaper, The Vanderbilt Hustler.
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Willie Geist began his career as an editor and producer for CNN Sports Illustrated and subsequently as a field producer and reporter for CNN Sports, where he covered the Super Bowl, the NCAA Final Four, and The Masters.
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Willie Geist was named permanent co-host of Morning Joe, along with Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, in September 2007.
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In 2012, Willie Geist became an official co-host of Today and left Way Too Early.
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Willie Geist has contributed to NBC Sports and NBC News's coverage of every Olympic Games since 2010.
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Willie Geist solo anchored NBC's hours-long coverage of the Orlando nightclub shooting on the morning of June 12,2016.
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Willie Geist was on the air for seven successive hours in an NBC News Special Report that aired across the United States.
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Willie Geist did voice work in Kung Fu Panda 3, voicing Sum opposite Al Roker's Dim, and has made cameos in several other movies and television shows.
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Willie Geist is a frequent guest on Andy Cohen's late night Bravo show "Watch What Happens Live", where he often is paired with a Real Housewife.
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Willie Geist has appeared twice in People magazine's "Sexiest Men Alive" issue, in 2012 and 2017.
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In 2019, Willie Geist participated with Jenna Bush Hager in a special episode of How Low Will You Go that aired on the Today Show.
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In 2024, Willie Geist appeared as a fictionalized version of himself on the twelfth season of the HBO show Curb Your Enthusiasm.
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On May 24,2003, Willie Geist married his high school sweetheart Christina Sharkey, in Humacao, Puerto Rico.
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Willie Geist is a board member at Operation Mend, an organization at UCLA Medical Center that provides free surgery and care to America's most severely injured military veterans.
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On November 7,2021, Geist ran the 50th annual New York City Marathon to raise money for the Michael J Fox Foundation.
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Willie Geist finished his first marathon in 3:58:23 and raised more than $500,000 for Parkinson's Disease research, entirely in small donations.
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Willie Geist ran part of the race carrying a friend's engagement ring and handed it to him along the course in Central Park, where his friend then proposed.