Val Warner
Val Warner
Val Warner 11th of March 1974, in Los Angeles, California USA, is an African American anchor, Journalist, entrepreneur and actress. She is perhaps best known to the world for her significant presence on the TV screen as the co-host of ABC7’s “Windy City LIVE”
Early Life
Val Warner 11th of March 1974, in Los Angeles, California USA. She was raised in her birthplace by her father of and her mother Diane Jackson, author of the book series entitled “Thelma”. She has a sister named Rae Bell.
She always seemed to be inclined towards mass communication-related jobs.
She attended a local high school in her Los Angeles, California, from where she matriculated in 1992.
She then furthered her education by enrolling in the University of California at San Diego, from where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1996.
Personal
Val has over the course of her career had the pleasure of conversing with some of the most prominent US celebrities, including even former first lady, Michelle Obama, on the 13th of November 2018, mostly due to the fact that Michelle was about to release her new book, entitled “Becoming”, at Michelle’s alma mater Whitney M. Young Magnet High School situated in Chicago
she has two children with her ex-husband named, Zoe, who was born in 2003, and Max, born in 2007.
They married in 1999 and divorced on the 1st of August 2008.
At that point, Val gained custody of their children, at which point Zoe was five and Max was a mere 10 months old.
Val is currently engaged to Jeff Cartwright, as of March 4th 2013.
Career
Val’s first professional experience took place when she began working behind the scenes at KGTV in 1994, where she spent the last three years of her college education, in the meantime getting practice and perfecting her craft.
After her college graduation, she worked for a year as a fill-in anchor and reporter at KBIM-FM in Roswell, Georgia, and KRQE in Albuquerque, New Mexico. A year later, she began anchoring and reporting for the morning newscast at KSNT in Topeka, Kansas, where she remained until 2000. At that point, she transferred to WEYI-TV in Flint, Michigan, and served as a reporter and primary evening anchor for five years, until 2005.
She moved to Chicago, Illinois, in 2005 where she started co-anchoring and reporting on traffic in WGN-TV s “Morning News”. She kept this position from July 2005 until 2011. While there, she also anchored the 5 a.m. newscast, and covered various popular topics, such as politics and finance. She also conducted interviews with celebrities, and co-hosted the “Mommy Test” segment of the “Morning Show” for a time. Additionally, she was in charge of interviewing the participants of the “Teacher of the Month” program from WGN’s “News at Nine”.
After more than five years at WGN-TV, Val became a Chicago-based reporter and anchor for ABC 7.
Her job change came about due to her successful audition for the co-hosting position of ABC 7’s new morning talk and entertainment show entitled “Windy City LIVE”.
Along with Ryan Chiaverini, Val now co-hosts the said show on ABC 7 every weekday at 1 p.m., thereby covering a wide variety of topics and conducting interviews with celebrities from all walks of life.
The show premiered on the 26th of May 2011 and has been on-going ever since.
She is also an actress, though her ABC 7 fame overshadows her acting achievements.
Thus, it is a little-known fact that Val was featured as Electra Johnson in Spike Lee’s 2015 comedy crime drama film entitled “Chi-Raq”.
She was also seen in the role of Madison Larsson in an episode of Doris and Frank Hursley’s crime drama romance TV show entitled “General Hospital” in 2016.
She also has an online shop, carrying the “FREE” brand name, which was personally created by Val.
On the front page of her online store, there is Val’s picture wearing her products, and a short description about her life.
The “Shop” section of her website features several different shirt designs and colors, all with the capitalized word “FREE” in the chest area.