Maureen O'Boyle

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Mauen Jeralyn O'Boyle (born July 14, 1963) is an American television journalist and news anchor.

She is a lead anchor for WBTV News 3 in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she anchors the weekly magazine "Stretching Your Dollar." O'Boyle has been the anchorwoman for the television shows A Current Affair and Extra.

Early life

O'Boyle was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. She is one of ten children; her older brother Johnny died as a child. The family went from New York to England almost every two years before settling in Charlotte, where her father established Timeplanner Calendars. The six brothers of O'Boyle eventually took over the family's business, expanded it to a multimillion-dollar venture, and sold it in 2005!

O'Boyle graduated from West Charlotte High School in 1981 and studied journalism at East Carolina University.

Personal life

O'Boyle revealed to People on April 3, 1986 in Macon, Georgia, a man broke into her apartment and assaulted her. The man was arrested after committing his second rape and sentenced to 50 years in jail. "I've always believed that being in a position where I am in the public eye that my story is important to tell," O'Boyle told People.

In 1999, O'Boyle gave birth to her daughter Keegan. She took her daughter to the "Extra" set every day and had a baby for Keegan in her office. O'Boyle left the industry and retreated to a 100-year-old cabin in Hurley, New York, after contract talks with Warner Brothers fell apart, and retreated to a 100-year-old cabin.

O'Boyle works with numerous charities, including the American Red Cross, Assistance League of Charlotte, Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina, American Heart Association, Dress for Encounter, and the Community Blood Center of the Carolinas. She appeared on a charity edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire in November 2010, when she and her co-anchor raised $48,000 for the Greater Enrichment Service, a after-school service for at-risk youth.

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Early career

O'Boyle helped with the relaunch of campus radio station WZMB in her freshman year at East Carolina University. She was also hired to do morning cut-ins at the NBC affiliate in nearby Washington, N.C. station WITN. She then went to work with WNCT in Greenville on weekends. Before graduating, O'Boyle left school and was hired by WECT in Wilmington, North Carolina, where she served as a nightside reporter and was promoted to noon anchor. She had a new stop in Macon, Georgia, as a co-anchor and reporter. She left the station to become the main anchor for CBS affiliate KREM 2 in Spokane, Washington.

Professional career

O'Boyle was recruited to replace Maury Povich on the nationally syndicated A Current Affair in 1990, at the age of 27. Its viewership soared by 15%, and she gave a higher Q Score than any other newswoman on television at the time. O'Boyle was a host on A Current Affair until 1994, when she was replaced by Penny Daniels.

She joined Los Angeles' weekend anchor and reporter in 1995. O'Boyle left Extra in 1996 and hosted her own talk show In Person, which ran for one season (after which she returned to Extra and became co-anchor until September 1997). In the films So I Married an Axe Murderer and Undisputed, she appeared as herself. O'Boyle left television to be a full-time mother in 1999. In 2004, she returned to her hometown to join WBTV as the station's top female anchor, alongside Paul Cameron. Since Cameron's demise in 2018, she has been the station's main anchor and de facto celebrity.

She appeared in a 1998 episode of The Larry Sanders Show, in which she interviewed Garry Shandling's lead character.

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