Connie Chung Bio, Age, Net worth, Facts About Maury Povichs Wife

For more than three decades, veteran American journalist Connie Chung made a name for herself on almost every major American television news network, including CNN, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, ABS. Connie, who has managed to build a lasting reputation for herself, worked primarily as a news correspondent/anchor during her broadcasting career. Through her, she gained national fame Face to Face with Connie Chung interview program.

Meanwhile, Connie Chung’s successful after professional life is her married life with equally successful American television personality Maury Povich. Povich, who has also appeared as an anchor and presenter on numerous US news networks, is most popular for his syndicated tabloid talk show. Maury (1991 to present). Connie and Maury have been married for over three decades.

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She was born Constance Yu-Hwa Chung on August 20, 1946 in Washington DC, USA. Chung is the last of ten children of an intelligent Chinese government official, William Ling Chung. Mr. Chung immigrated to the United States with his family from China a few months before Connie was born. She is therefore American by nationality and Asian by ethnicity.

Connie Chung completed her high school education at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland. She then attended the University of Maryland at College Park, earning a degree in journalism in 1969.

After graduating from university, Chung took a job as a correspondent for CBS Evening News in Washington. She later moved to KNXT (now KCBS-TV) in Los Angeles and worked as a nighttime news anchor and then for CBS Newsbreak from KNXT Studios in Columbia Square.

In 1983, Connie Chung joined NBC, where she anchored the network’s programs. NBC News at Sunrise and NBC Nightly News . She was also a co-host of NBC’s newsmagazines, American Almanac and 1986. After working at NBC for about six years, she joined CBS to host Saturday Night with Connie Chung alongside anchoring CBS Sunday Evening News . Connie’s stint at CBS was also a six-year marathon. In 1995, she left the network to focus on conducting independent interviews with Eye to Eye with Connie Chung .

Eye level brought her much fame in a series of controversies and criticisms of her interviewing style. Some of the major controversies arose from her interview with Kathleen Gingrich, Oklahoma City Fire Department spokeswoman Martina Navratilova, which eventually led to her demotion and subsequent dismissal from CBS. There was a massive public outcry over a question she asked the firefighter after the Oklahoma City bombings that many considered “inappropriate” and “insensitive.”

Connie joined ABC News in 1997 and worked as a reporter and then co-anchor on the network’s Monday 20/20 program from 1998 to 2000. In 2002 she began hosting her own show, Connie Chung Tonight on CNN. The program lasted barely a year and ended in 2003 after the start of the Iraq war.

In 2006, Connie Chung, along with her husband Maury Povich, began hosting Weekends With Maury and Connie on MSNBC. The show didn’t last long, however, as it was canceled after six months due to low ratings. In the same year she retired from her television career.

In addition to broadcast, Connie has appeared in a number of films/TV series including Moscow on the Hudson (1984), Murphy Brown (1989) and Off the Boat (2015). She was also one of the judges at the 2011 Miss Universe pageant.

Married life with Maury Povich

Connie Chung met Maury Povich, a fellow journalist, in 1968. At the time, she was a secretary at WTTG-TV in Washington, where she was also a news anchor at the time. Povich had just divorced his first wife, Phyllis Minkoff, whom he married in 1962. The duo began dating and later married on December 2, 1984.

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Chung adopted a son with her husband, Matthew Jay Povich in 1995. They have no biological children together. In addition to her adopted son, Connie also has two stepdaughters – Susan Anne Povich and Amy Joyce Povich, who were born from Maury’s previous marriage. Susan and Amy are both married and have children.

Wealth (income and earnings)

As of 2017-2019, Connie Chung’s net worth was estimated to be between $15 million and $25 million. She built her wealth mainly from her long years as a TV presenter. In the early 2000s, she earned an annual salary of $2 million on the Connie Chung Tonight show on CNN.

Facts about Maury Povich’s wife

1. Connie Chung lost five of her siblings during the Chinese Civil War. She currently has four surviving older sisters, including June Chung (married to John Fugh) and Josephine Chen.

2. Before meeting Maury Povich, Chung had dated legendary American actor Warren Beatty, who later had his first marriage (to Annette Bening) at 55.

3. She converted to Judaism after marrying Maury Povich and has since been a devoted worshiper, regularly attending synagogue with her family and living a kosher lifestyle.

4. Connie has had infertility issues including a miscarriage and multiple failed IVFs. As a result, in 1991, after seven years of fruitless marriage, she reduced her workload in a bid to reduce stress to increase her chances of conceiving. However, she eventually resorted to adoption after all measures she had taken failed.

5. It sounds pretty bizarre that the same doctor who delivered Connie Chung sexually abused her while she was in college. Stranger sounds the fact that Connie revealed the incident at the age of 72, fifty years after it occurred!

6. Chung broke records as the first Asian and second woman ever to anchor on a major network in the US after becoming the first female popularity co-host on CBS Evening News in 1993.

7. She was the first journalist to interview legendary NBA basketball player Magic Johnson after he went public about his HIV-positive status.

8. Connie Chung is an associate professor at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, where she published a discussion paper entitled The Business of Getting “Getting”: Nailing an Exclusive Prime-Time Interview .

9. In 2013, she was a General Services nominee in the New Jersey Hall of Fame. She was later inducted into the 2016 New Jersey Hall of Fame in the Arts and Letters.

10. Connie stands at 5ft 1″ and is 1ft shorter than Maury who is 6ft 1″ tall.

Reinaldo Massengill

Update: 2024-10-19

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