Jenna Wolfe | |
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Born | Jennifer Wolfeld February 26, 1974 |
Education | Binghamton University SUNY-Geneseo |
Occupation(s) | NBC News anchor and correspondent, fitness expert, personal trainer, television host |
Notable credit(s) |
Weekend Today news anchor (2012–2014) Today correspondent (2007–2014) Lifestyle and fitness correspondent (2014–2015) First Things First (2017–2022) |
Partner | Stephanie Gosk (2012-2021) |
Children | 2 |
Jenna Wolfe (born Jennifer Wolfeld; February 26, 1974) is a Jamaican-born Haitian and American journalist and personal trainer. From 2007 to 2014, she was a correspondent for NBC's Today, and Sunday co-anchor from 2007 to 2012 and news anchor for Weekend Today from 2012 to 2014. On September 12, 2014, Wolfe left the weekend Today show for a new role as lifestyle and fitness correspondent on the weekday Today show and NBC News. [1]
From September 2017 through August 2022, Wolfe worked with Fox Sports on FS1 as a host of the show First Things First with Kevin Wildes, and Nick Wright. She was also a field correspondent for Yellowstone Live on National Geographic.
Wolfe was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and grew up in Pétion-Ville, Haiti. [2] Her father, Bennet Wolfeld, [3] was Jewish and was born and raised in Puerto Rico. He owned a chain of leather factories in Puerto Rico and moved to Jamaica with his wife when he expanded his operations. [3] Her mother, Sheila Greenfeld, was also Jewish and from New Jersey. [3] Wolfe had a religious upbringing and had her bat mitzvah while living in the islands. [4] [5] Bob Marley was a neighbor of hers in Kingston. [6]
She moved from Jamaica to Haiti when she was five. [3] In 1989, her family moved to the United States. [2] Wolfe attended SUNY Geneseo from 1992 to 1994. [7] She graduated from Binghamton University with Bachelor of Arts degrees in French and English in 1996. [2]
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From 2004 to 2007, she was the weekend morning sports anchor for WABC's Eyewitness News in New York City where she had a special segment called "Jenna's Beef," in which she editorialized an event from the world of sports that week. Prior to that, she worked for the Madison Square Garden Network, WPHL-TV in Philadelphia as the first female sportscaster, WICZ-TV in Binghamton, New York, WUHF-TV in Rochester, New York, and the Today Show as an intern. Aside from her journalistic duties, Wolfe has appeared as a judge on Food Network's Iron Chef America.
Wolfe speaks English, French and Haitian Creole. [2] On March 27, 2013, Wolfe publicly came out as a lesbian and announced that she was expecting her first child with her partner, NBC News correspondent Stephanie Gosk. [9] Wolfe and Gosk married each other in 2013. [10] They welcomed a girl in August 2013. [11] Their second daughter was born on February 4, 2015. [12] Wolfe and Gosk separated in 2021; Wolfe later commented that the strain of both of them working from home due to the Covid-19 pandemic as contributing to family stress. [10]