Julie Chen (I)
Julie Chen (I) Trivia
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Trivia
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Julie was voted "Most Intelligent and Most Likely to Succeed" in high school.
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Julie Chen stands at 5' 4 1/2" (1.64 m) tall.
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Julie went to St. Francis Prep High School located in Queens, New York.
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Julie has two sisters Gladys Chen and Vicki Chen.
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Julie's father is David Y. Chen and her mother is Wan Ling Chen.
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Julies nickname is "the Chenbot".
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During her childhood growing up in Queens, Julie knew she wanted to be a journalist.
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Julie is fluent in Mandarin.
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While working on The Early Show, Julie was known for saying "but first."
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In 1991 Julie earned her degree in English and broadcast journalism from University of Southern California.
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In 1990 Julie started working for ABC News for five years.
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Julie was a reporter from 1995 - 1999 at WDTN-TV Dayton.
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From 1997 to 1997 Julie worked as a reporter and anchor at WCBS-TV in New York.
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On Thursday September 24th 2009, Julie gave birth to her son Charlie with Les Moonves.
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She married Les Moonves on December 24, 2004.
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She graduated from USC in 1991.
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She is engaged to TV news editor Gary Donahue.
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Quotes
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Julie Chen: (During a segment on the CBS Early Show) I am the Chenbot!
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Julie Chen: (On not feeling comfortable talking about work woes at home with her husband Leslie) I hold back,... ...One day things finally got to me, the floodgates opened, and Leslie was like, 'I had no idea!' I'm like, 'Of course you had no idea, because I was keeping quiet.
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Julie Chen: (On being reluctant to ask for big assignments when she worked on Early Show to prove she is not using her personal relationship as leverage) I've stayed quiet on a lot of things,... ...They are already saying stories about me that aren't true, so I thought, Why give them something to embellish?
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Julie Chen: (On being apart of the fun, being called Chenbot, and being made fun of for what she is wearing) My very first news director said to me that it's better to be hated than to have viewers be neutral. If people just go, 'She's alright,' then you don't count. We need to give the fans what they want,... ...and they want their Chenbot!
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Julie Chen: (In response to working on a game show as being an embarrassing footnote) I truly feel the morning-show hosts are held to a different level of accountability,... ...After I started getting criticism for doing Big Brother, someone told me that Hugh Downs used to host Concentration and Mike Wallace used to do The Big Surprise. I thought, Huh, maybe that door isn't sealed shut if I want to do 60 Minutes one day.
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