Beth McLeod is an Emmy Award winner and American Fox-8 meteorologist, whose claim to fame was being the wife of popular American sports producer and game announcer for NBA’s “Cleveland Cavaliers,” Fred McLeod.

Early Life and Family

Beth McLeod was born Elizabeth Heather Henningsen on 31 March 1965, in Bay Village, Ohio USA, to parents Richard Henningsen and Martha Ann Henningsen. Her family lived in her hometown until Beth was in 1^st grade, then moved to Detroit due to her father working for Detroit Diesel at that time, and she spent most of her childhood there.

Education

She matriculated from Northville High School in Northville, Michigan, and graduated from Michigan State University with a Bachelor’s degree in Broadcast Journalism. Later on, she was completed a Master’s degree in Meteorology at Mississippi State University.

Career

Her first television job was at CBS Sports in New York, but she then worked at WDIV in Detroit, Michigan for over 17 years. Aside from covering traffic news for the station from 1995 to 2008, she was one of the hosts of Michigan Lottery, giving out the lucky winning numbers during the daily drawing broadcast for 15 years along with Aggie Usedly and Darryl Wood, until they were replaced by an automated speaking machine in 2012.

Beth left the traffic news department so that she could have more time with her husband, who was the Cleveland Cavaliers play-by-play game announcer. She started a career as a weather forecaster in WOIO in Cleveland, spending almost 10 years working as a meteorologist, giving updates about the weather, and explaining the possible changes in the climate every day.

She is currently working as the resident meteorologist of Fox 8 News Channel in Cleveland.

Personal Life

She was married to Fred McLeod for 28 years before he passed away. They met during the NBA Finals when she was still working for CBS Sports – he found out that she wanted to try broadcasting, and was preparing an audition tape.

He help her create her videotape, and through the course of helping her one thing led to another. They started dating and were married in 1991. This was her first marriage and Fred’s second – he had three children with his former wife.

In September of 2019, her husband called her and said that he was not feeling well, and that he would drive himself from the golf course to the emergency room of the nearest hospital. She told him to pull over and just wait for the 911 team that she called to attend to him. That was the last time they were able to talk, as he died of a heart attack at the age of 67.

Beth is currently residing in Ohio, and still struggles with the pain of losing her husband. Her work in Fox 8 keeps her busy and helps her to move forward, but says in an interview that ‘There is a hole in my heart.’

Who is Fred McLeod?

Fred was born on 1 September 1952 in Strongsville, Cleveland, Ohio, to parents Fred McLeod Sr. and Marilyn McLeod. He spent most of his childhood in his hometown until his sophomore year, when his family transferred to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He matriculated from a local high school there, and then graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism in 1974 from Point Park University, previously known as Point Park College.

He was part of the baseball varsity team in college in the position of pitcher, as his team made it to the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) World Series, the national association for small colleges in North America.

In 1974, he started his career in covering sports events at St. Joseph, Missouri for KQTV, then transferred to Steubenville, Ohio for WSTV. In 1979, he went back to Cleveland for WJKW-TV to be a sports presenter and a play-by-play announcer of the city’s baseball team, the Cleveland Indians. Impressed by his commentaries, Fred was offered a job in San Francisco, California doing the same thing for KPIX-TV covering the Oakland Athletics.

By 1980’s, WJBK was able to lure him back to the East by offering him a job in Detroit, Michigan as a sport presenter, and later he transferred to WDIV. In 1984, the NBA team the Detroit Pistons hired him to call their games, giving the play-by-play account of the games for many years until he received a call in 2006 from Dan Gilbert, the majority owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers. Apparently, Dan was his former intern at WDIV, who after getting his degree, bought back his mortgage company and eventually bought the NBA team. Fred was offered a job back in Ohio, and was apparently ecstatic with the opportunity to become the voice of his hometown’s basketball games. He did so until his death in 2019.

Interesting Facts

• Beth asked for her husband’s body to be autopsied so his three children from his first wife would be informed of the cause of death, given that his relatives had a short life expectancy rate. Most of Fred’s relatives had died in their ‘50’s, and apparently the additional 10 years that Fred had was because of his healthy lifestyle. His artery problem was genetic.
• Beth owns a pair of dogs to accompany her, and encourage her to live one day at a time.
• She shares Fred’s story and her experience with the American Heart Association awareness program, to encourage people to go and consult a doctor.
• She is active in her verified social media accounts. Her Twitter is @BethHMcLeod, Instagram is @bethmcleodfox8, YouTube is Beth McLeod, and Facebook is @BethHMcLeod.

Appearance

She is 5ft 5ins (1.67m) tall, and weighs around 125lbs (57kgs). Her shoe size is 6.5. She is Caucasian with long blonde hair and blue eyes.

Net worth

Authoritative sources estimated Beth’s net worth at about $400,000 before her husband’s death; she may have benefited from his estate.  She is earning between $80,000 and $90,000 on average per year.

Who is Jennifer Lahmers?

Jennifer Lahmers was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio USA, on 19 February 1984 – her zodiac sign is Pisces and she holds American nationality. She is a TV news reporter and an anchor, perhaps known best for working as a correspondent for the American syndicated news broadcasting show “Extra”. Jennifer’s skills have won her a nomination for an Emmy Award.

Early life and education

Jennifer hasn’t talked about any siblings, in fact it’s believed that she was raised an only child in Tuscarawas County, by her father William and her mother Cathy.

Jennifer was around eight years old when she became interested in journalism and reporting, and she and her friends Steffanie, Theresa and Erin, played with their imagined WJET TV station, recording fake news nearly every day. Jennifer went on to study at Dover High School, and during the four years she spent there became even more interested in journalism, while she was also keen on doing many other things, including acting with the school’s drama club, and helping organize various student events.

Upon matriculating in 2002, she enrolled at Ohio University’s E. W. Scripps School of Journalism, from which she obtained her Bachelor’s degree in 2006.

Career as a reporter

Jennifer started working as soon as she finished college, joining the TV station WBBJ-TV working as a reporter – for the job, she had to move to Jackson in Tennessee. After a while, Jennifer was allowed to anchor the weekend news, while she also had to work without the help of writers and additional crew, even occasionally shooting items of news by herself.

She went on to join Fox 61 (former Fox CT) in 2007, and thus moved to Hartford in Connecticut – she worked as a reporter for five years, including spending some time working as their weekend news anchor, before quitting in 2012.

During those years while she was working her way up in the field of journalism, Jennifer also worked as a freelancer, including writing columns for the largest daily USA newspaper “The Hartford Courant”.

She joined the golf lifestyle cable Back9Network in 2012 – owned by her former husband – and worked there for the following two years before being invited to join WNYW-TV, a Fox-affiliated network in New York City.

She was their general assignments reporter for the following three year,s before she started co-anchoring their morning show “Good Day Wake Up”.

She gained recognition in August 2019 when invited to join the show “Extra” as a correspondent, which meant moving to Los Angeles in California. Jennifer is in charge of covering Hollywood film premieres, various red carpet events, as well as conducting studio interviews.

Jennifer is quite active on Instagram and Twitter, as it’s somewhat important for her career to be able to inform her fans about the most recent news.

She is followed by close to 70,000 people on Instagram, while she’s uploaded more than 2,000 pictures, most of which have been taken during her everyday life. She’s been active on Twitter since June 2010, and is followed by close to 20,000 people, while she tends to tweet at least once a week.

Love life and husband

Jennifer is quite secretive when it comes to her love life, but it is known that she was married to James Bosworth, an American professional golf player and cable network executive.

The two married in a private ceremony held at Tehama golf course in Carmel, California attended by their closest friends and family, on 2 July 2011 – it’s believed that the two were engaged for several years before exchanging vows.

After three years of married life, Jennifer and James divorced for unknown reasons.

In 2016, Jennifer uploaded a picture with a certain Dr. Mike onto her Instagram account, wishing him a happy birthday and calling him her love – it is believed that the two dated for around a year, as they stopped uploading pictures featuring themselves together in 2017, while Jennifer has also deleted the above mentioned picture of the two.

Jennifer is trying her best to help prevent domestic violence – she became interested in the topic after her friend and colleague Alice Morrin was killed by her husband.

As of November 2020, Jennifer is single, has been married, and doesn’t have children.

Hobbies and other interests

Jennifer likes to dress up for Halloween, and hasn’t so far missed a single opportunity to put on a costume, paint her face and attend a party – her most recent Halloween costume can be seen featured in one of her Instagram pictures.

She likes to travel, and her job as a journalist has taken her all around the US, visiting nearly every state, while Jennifer has also had a chance to vacation in Europe – her dream travel destination is Paris in France.

She is physically very active as she works out three to four times at the gym each week, and she’s also following a very strict, diet thus her fit body.

Age, height and salary

Jennifer’s age is 36. She has long brown hair and brown eyes, her height is 5ft 10ins (1.78m) and she weighs around 120lbs (55kgs).

As of November 2020, her net worth has been estimated at over $1.2 million.

Ever heard about Sunlen Serfaty?

If you are up-to-date with news pertaining to politics, especially in the USA, then you are probably already familiar with the name Sunlen Serfaty. She is a renowned national correspondent with CNN, and is based in Washington, DC. Her dedication and astounding work ethic have made her successful in the field of journalism, and also garnered her a lot of popularity as well as dedicated fans. The Emmy award- winning journalist is well-known for her robust experience in the world of political journalism, particularly reporting from the White House, and on the US Presidential election campaign.

To know more about Sunlen Serfaty, continue reading this article as we go in depth into her personal life and achievements.

What was growing up like for Sunlen Serfaty?

Born on 6 April 1981, in Richmond, Virginia, USA, under the Aries star sign, Sunlen Mari Miller was surrounded by the care and support of her working-class parents. She is an American and a Caucasian by ethnicity. Her father, William N. Miller works in Virginia as a mediator and an independent arbitrator. Her mother, Denise M. Miller, also a hard-working woman, had to shuffle between managing her home and working as a communications manager for a French transport company, also in her home state.

Asides from the careers of her parents, Sunlen has not volunteered any other information on whether or not she has any siblings, and other relatives.

Sunlen Serfaty’s career roadmap to CNN

Sunlen received her Bachelor’s degree in International relations from George William University, specializing in Media and Communications. She then proceeded to work a couple of jobs involving reporting at local news stations, like MSN, MSN Canada, WRAL-TV and many others. She developed a lot of skill writing and reporting, and then went on to grab more significant opportunities, including working as an associate producer for The Washington Post’s radio and television projects, which she did from May 2003 to September 2004.

Soon after that, she was contracted to work at ABC News, where she was mainly tasked with covering congressional proceedings.

Sunlen also covered breaking news and was featured on “World News with Charles Gibson”, “This Week with George Stephanopoulos”, the network’s News Now’s “Politics Live”, other news programs and feature stories. The highlight of her career there was covering the news and events revolving around President Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign. Her hard work was not in vain as she was soon noticed by the News Giant CNN, and offered a position to work with them, and began working there in 2013 at age 37.

Together with their news source, Sunlen has since covered over 800 reports on political matters pertaining to the White House. She has become distinguished over the years for her impressive news anchorage, which include the covering the 2016 Presidential election campaign, and was also credited with being the first reporter to cover Jim Jordan, an Ohio politician’s declaration to contest for the oval office in 2019, which came after Paul Ryan, House of Representatives term ended.

Sunlen won an Emmy award for her outstanding endeavour in the field of political journalism in the USA.

Are you curious about Sunlen Serfaty’s love life?

Sunlen was introduced to Alexis Leigh Serfaty, by mutual friends. According to The Washington Post, Alexis is the chief of staff and vice president of the U.S-UAE Business Council.

He obtained his master’s degree in political science from Paris Institute of Political Studies, and was working at the Department of Transportation, Washington.

His father, Simon H. Serfaty, is a senior professor at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, and also holds an Emeritus Chair at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. His mother, Gail F. Serfaty, had an impressive work history at the State Department in Washington, from where she retired from her role as the Director of Operations and was in charge of the conduct of affairs at the reception rooms. She was also charged with the smooth running of affairs at Blair House, the presidential guest house.

Sunlen and Alexis met in 2006 through friends within the same circle but lost contact during the period when Sunlen was doing media coverage for the 2008 Barack Obama’s Campaign. This period lasted for about two years, and then they later reconnected, were drawn to each other, and saw each other frequently. They went on their first date at Firefly in DuPont. continued dating, and with time, fell in love and decided to share the rest of their lives with each other.

Sunlen and her long time partner Alexis were joined together in Holy Matrimony by an Episcopal priest on the 3 August 2013, at Rose Park in Washington, conducted in the presence of friends, family and well-wishers.

They have since enjoyed about seven years of a scandal-free marriage. In 2017, the couple had their first child Roosevelt Jolie Saferty. A verified source, stated that the name was given to their daughter as a tribute to the beautiful memories they share at the Rose Park where they first met and later wed.

Is Sunlen Serfaty’s a wealthy woman?

The beautiful journalist has enjoyed quite a successful career in journalism over the years. CNN reporters typically take home about $125,000 annually, and Sunlen’s net worth is estimated by sources at over $2 million, as of late 2020. From these figures, one could say that Sunlen Serfaty is anything but broke.

Sunlen Serfaty’s stunning physical features

The beautiful journalist is said to be endowed with physical attributes which could give a supermodel a run for her money. She stands above the average female American at a height of about 6ft (1.83m), her weight is unknown but she has a trim figure, with blond hair, blue eyes and (apparently)beautiful feet. All these features complement her immense talent.

Where can you find her?

She is quite active on social media with about 15,000 fans following her. You can reach her through her twitter handle @SunlenSerfaty. Her Instagram page is however restricted to private mode.