Josh Elliott

At 53 years old, Josh Elliott has this physical status:

Josh Elliott, an American television journalist who most recently worked for CBS News, is an American television journalist.

He has previously served as the news anchor for ABC's Good Morning America, a sports anchor for NBC Sports and Today, and a co-anchor for ESPN's morning edition of SportsCenter.

Early life and education

Elliott was born to Susan, who gave Elliott up for adoption. Charles Elliott and Toni Jordan adopted him and grew up in Los Angeles, California. When he was 13, his father came out as gay at the time of his parents' separation. Elliott's father died when he was 15 years old.

Elliott attended the University of California, Santa Barbara, after graduating from Loyola High School of Los Angeles. He enrolled at UC Santa Barbara in the hopes of joining the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos' water polo team, but instead ended up working at The Daily Nexus, the university newspaper. He graduated with a B.A. from UCSB in 1993. English literature is a graduate degree.

Elliot worked as a stringer for the Santa Barbara News-Press. He then went to graduate school at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, where he earned his Master of Science degree in 1999. He spent time as a producer for Galaxy Productions before heading to 20th Century Fox. He began his work in comedic development and then moved into physical theater. Elliott, who graduated from Columbia, worked with Sports Illustrated for six years, reporting major sports events.

Personal life

Elliott is divorced from Priya Narang, with whom he has a daughter. Elliott married news anchor Liz Cho on July 11, 2015.

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Career

Elliott first appeared on ESPN in 2004 as a panelist on Around the Horn and Jim Rome Is Burning, as well as being a guest co-host for Cold Pizza on ESPN2. Elliott appeared on ESPN Classic Now, a short-lived Classic Now, which aired from June 2005 to March 2006. He has also appeared on ESPNEWS and SportsCenter as a co-anchor. Elliott began contributing to ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com after Classic Now was cancelled.

Elliott was paired with Hannah Storm for the first three hours of the program block, beginning at 9:00 a.m. when ESPN started airing SportsCenter live every weekday morning on August 11, 2008. ET.

Following the departure of former news anchor Juju Chang, Elliott joined ABC's Good Morning America in May 2011. He began as a backup anchor on ABC World News' weekend edition, debuting on May 21, 2011. Lara Spencer was also anchored Good Afternoon America, an afternoon spin-off broadcast from July 9 to September 7, 2012 as a temporary replacement for ABC's cancelled talk show The Revolution.

Elliott had signed a deal with NBC and will leave ABC News and Good Morning America on March 30, 2014. Amy Robach was named as his immediate replacement. Elliott's on-air debut with NBC made him $4 million per year, but a six-month non-compete disqualifies him from appearing on news-related television, limiting him to NBC Sports sports shows such as the 2014 Kentucky Derby—where he made his on-air debut. Elliott was believed that NBC was considering him as a future host of Today, and he told the news that he "[hope] Matt Lauer is here when I step away from this career for the 30th years. I can tell you that the only ones I've had, which revolved around news, are ways to provide sports content to them." Elliott will eventually serve as a sports reporter for the newspaper.

Elliott had left NBC in December 2015.

CBS News announced on March 1, 2016, that Elliott will be the lead anchor for its digital news service CBSN. Elliott, according to CBS News president David Rhodes, needed a "outlet," continuing to say that "we're going to need him as much as he can do in these various areas of reporting and anchoring." It's another reason why it's the best spot for him because it's practically infinite. At CBSN, we have some really hard-working people, but we don't have enough of them."

Elliott revealed on February 10, 2017 that he would be leaving CBSN, but that "knowing how things work here, I may see you again on Monday morning." Elliott had been told by an executive that CBS wanted to place him in a larger capacity as a field reporter, under which he would have filed coverage for CBS's television news services. However, CBS executives were caught off guard by the sudden announcement, and they were unaware that CBSN had any plans to promote him. Elliott was fired on February 13, 2017.

Elliott received a local Emmy Award in New York City in 2005 for writing and contributing to Angles on MSG Network, as one of the co-hosts for Super Bowl XL for Westwood One Sports. Elliott co-hosted Yellowstone Live on National Geographic Channel with wildlife specialist Chris Packham in 2018, a four-night festival showcasing the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem with live footage from hundreds of photographers and seven camera crews.

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