As per ABC News, Janai Norman will be the new co-anchor for Good Morning America's Saturday and Sunday broadcasts from coming Saturday. She will be anchoring the show alongside Whit Johnson and Eva Pilgrim. She is filling the vacant space of Dan Harris, who left the network last year after a 21-year run.
Janai Norman Wikipedia & Parents Details
Janai Norman is an American co-anchor of ABC News World News Now and an ABC News correspondent. She was born on 5 January 1990 to her African American parents in Durban, South Africa. Norman is an American national and has faith in Christianity as her religion.
5 feet and 6 inches tall anchor went to the University of Missouri and graduated with a psychology and mass communication. She began taking classes in high school for journalism and also went on to become the editor-in-chief of her school newspaper in her junior and senior years.
Janai is very private about her parents and siblings, so she never talks about them in public. There is no information about her father and mother. She seems to be close to her mom as she regularly posts images on Instagram. Based on her tweet, her husband had an idea that Kendis and Norman looked like brother and sister in 2018.
Thirty-two years old anchor is also active on social media, with 51.1k followers on Instagram and 21.1k followers on Twitter.
Janai Norman Married Life with Husband Eli Norman
Janai Norman has been married to her husband, Eli Norman, since May 2018. Her husband is a military police veteran who has served two tours in Afghanistan.
The pair started to date in 2015. After dating for two years, the couple got engaged on 5 April 2017 while they were on a trip to Barcelona. After a year of getting engaged, the pair married in a private and intimate wedding ceremony with close friends and family.
Lol. My husband says Kendis and I look like brother and sister
— Janai Norman (@janai) November 21, 2018
The lovebirds are blessed with two children. Janai announced her first pregnancy on 15 September 2017 and gave birth to her first child, Blake (son), in December 2017. She shared an image of herself with a baby bump on her birthday in 2020, and people expected about her pregnancy. She posted about her second child on 2 May 2020. However, her second child was born prior to that. The pair keeps their children out of the limelight and never shows their faces in public.
Janai Norman Career Details And Net Worth Insights
Janai Norman is an American journalist in her career who came into the limelight after working as a correspondent for ABC News. At present, Norman is working as the co-host of World News Now and America This Morning and co-anchor of Good Morning America's Saturday and Sunday broadcasts. Thirty-two years old anchor has been working with ABC News since October 2016. Prior to working with ABC, she joined ABC News in 2011 as an Intern.
We’re back at it - tune in now to @GMA we we’re tracking the latest on covid, continuing travel troubles, and that bombshell verdict in the Ghislaine Maxwell trial. Plus Ryan Seacrest joins as we countdown to 2021 - it’s all ahead this morning 💖 pic.twitter.com/viY39aYlY5
— Janai Norman (@janai) December 30, 2021
Additionally, she also works for Weekend GMA Pop News and ABC World News Now. Norman also worked for Orlando-based WFTV Channel 9 in 2014.
After a decade of work, she has an estimated net worth of $1 million. As an anchor at ABC News, Janai Norman earns an average salary of $70,800 annually.