William Russell Geist was born on May 3,1975 and is an American television personality and journalist.
24 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 frequently serves as a fill-in anchor on both the weekday edition and the saturday edition of Today.
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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 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 began his career as an editor and producer for CNN Sports Illustrated and subsequently 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 2010, Willie Geist began substituting for Matt Lauer as host of the Today Show and as the show's newsreader.
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In November 2012, Willie Geist became an official co-host of Today and left Way Too Early.
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In 2016, Willie Geist was made solo-host of the new Sunday Today that launched in April.
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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 later did voice work in Kung Fu Panda 3 where he voiced Sum opposite of Al Roker's Dim where their characters are twin panda brothers who are related to Po, 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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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.