Gretchen Carlson (born June 21, 1966) is a co-host of Fox & Friends on Fox News Channel, which she joined in June 2005.
Carlson was previously the co-anchor, with Russ Mitchell, of the Saturday Early Show on CBS. She joined CBS News as a correspondent in 2000, and began working on the Early Show in 2002. Before her tenure at CBS, Carlson served as a weekend anchor and reporter for KXAS-TV in Dallas, Texas, was an anchor and reporter at WOIO-TV in Cleveland, Ohio, and for WCPO-TV in Cincinnati. She began her television career in Richmond, Virginia as a political reporter for WRIC-TV. blank">Gretchen Carlson Bio, _FOXNEWS.COM, update as of Friday, September 22, 2006
- Carlson was raised in Anoka, Minnesota and graduated from Anoka-Hennepin School District 11's Anoka High School in 1984.
- Carlson is also a former beauty queen. She won the title Miss Minnesota, and then in 1989 blank">Miss America :: History - 1989, January 11, 2007 became the third woman from that state to win Miss America. For the talent competition, Carlson played the violin, which she still practices regularly.
- Carlson graduated with honors from _Stanford University in 1990 with a self-designed degree in Organizational Behavior and later studied at Oxford University.
- Carlson was moved to Fox & Friends initially as a weekend substitute host, but on September 25, 2006, a shift of anchors, which included E. D. Hill moving to the 10 A.M. hour of Fox News Live, reportedly to help her raise her family, created a vacancy on Fox & Friends which Carlson filled.
- As of September 2006, Carlson was the national celebrity spokesperson for the March of Dimes but was no longer as of 12 March 2007 24212.asp" target="_blank">Tom Bergeron Article on March of Dimes Web Site, _March of Dimes Press Release, 12 March 2007
- Carlson is married to agent Casey Close, whose clientele includes the likes of Ryan Howard, Derek Jeter and Josh Hamilton
- Carlson is of Swedish descent.
