Emmy Award-winning Journalist, Nischelle Turner is an entertainment correspondent for HLN’s Showbiz Tonight and CNN. Previously she has worked for KNBC and KTTV FOX in Los Angeles

Early Life & Education

Nischelle Renee Turner was born on February 11, 1976, in Columbia, Missouri. Raised by a single mother, Jacque, Nischelle has a large lengthened family. Residing in mid-Missouri all of her childhood life, she understood that college was her for a change of step and joined the University of Kentucky.

She revealed that “It was always her plan to come back,” who knew she needed to study journalism.” She added, “my mother would kill me if she did not go to the best journalism school, and it was best in my deck”. Turner left Kentucky at the start of her junior year and returned to Columbia to begin her first education at the Missouri School of Journalism and graduated from there with Journalism school in 1998.

From the moment she stepped on campus, Turner engaged herself in the opportunities and received an offer to work for NBC associated broadcast station, “KOMU-TV”. The station is the only university-owned practical television station in the U.S. that practices its newsroom as a learning lab for students. They worked as producers, reporters, writers, and camera operators while producing local news coverage. Nischelle, later credited the University on how she got to run the studio cameras.

Early Career

After graduation, Nischelle Turner determined it was time to stimulate herself and report outside her familiar landscape. In 1998, she joined “WEHT” as a reporter and fill-in anchor in Evansville, Ind. In 2000, Turner served as a weekday reporter and weekend anchor for “WVUE-TV FOX8” in New Orleans.

After installing an occupancy in news, in 2004 Turner entered KTTV in Los Angeles as a reporter on “Good Day LA” and host/anchor for “Good Day LA Weekend.” Just a few months after leaving, she turned to New Orleans to cover Hurricane Katrina and its aftereffect. Her coverage of the disaster won several journalism awards.

As a keen sports fan, Turner’s enthusiasm and knowledge came in skillful when she joined FOX NFL Sunday in 2007 as a sideline reporter for national football broadcasts. In an extension to covering football, “major league baseball” and “basketball for FOX”, she converted a host for “Extra on Essence” in 2009, an online television show focussing on Hollywood’s most aristocracy stars. Turner also has served as a freelance reporter and host for KNBC.

Joined CNN as a Reporter

Nischelle Turner joined CNN Los Angeles bureau as a reporter for “Showbiz Tonight” in December 2011. She then shifted to New York to provide entertainment parts to morning program “New Day”.

Her work at CNN involved leading the network’s coverage from the Golden Globes, the red carpet at the Grammys, Oscars and live coverages of breaking news and the death of music legend Whitney Houston.

Personal Life: Height, Net Worth, Steve Harvey

Nischelle Turner was reportedly dating Eddie Murphy in 2007. She has a seductive body measurement of 36-25-36 inches and has a normal height of 5 feet 7 inches. Turner holds American nationality and belongs to African-American ethnicity. Her estimated net worth is $500,000 thousand. Turner is also active on social networking sites like Twitter and Instagram.

Regardless of he beauty and glamour, Nischelle, 42, stays steadfast to the vow of her professional work and is not yet hitch to anyone. Also, she hasn’t disclosed her own points of interest, for instance, married life, spouse and her beau.

Howevr, in January 2016, Steve Harvey the famous personality set her up on a date. She went to Steve’s Chicago set as part of her interview and Steve’s yearly birthday show. Harvey discovered that she was single and looking for a man. Harvey discovered two alluring single guys for Turner, yet this woman was just ready to choose one of them to go on a dating with.

She has not revealed about her personal life on social sites, however, she is a very close friend of anchor and reporter, Bob DeCastro. She posted with him saying  “I’m screaming the BIGGEST HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my heart of ?’s @bobbydtv! To say he has a heart of gold is an understatement! I fell in love with him the day I met him and didn’t let up til he loved me back! He’s my TV hubby and my real-life BFF. Can’t imagine my world without him! Love you to the moon and back my friend! Enjoy your day!.

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