Ben Aaron Explained

Ben Aaron
Birth Name:Benjamin Aron Colonomos[1]
Birth Date:September 10, 1981
Birth Place:New York, US
Education:Emerson College
Years Active:1999–present
Known For:Co-host for Crazy Talk and Pickler & Ben
Children:2

Benjamin Aron Colonomos (born September 10, 1981) is a New York City-based media personality formerly for NBCUniversal's LXTV and WNBC's New York Live, and for the nationally syndicated Crazy Talk television series. From 2017 to 2019, he co-hosted the nationally syndicated TV talk show Pickler & Ben with country artist Kellie Pickler.[2] As of the start of 2020, he is a features reporter for the PIX11 Morning News on WPIX-TV in New York.[3]

Early life and education

Benjamin Aron Colonomos[4] was born on September 10, 1981,[5] in New York to Janis Yudelson Salerno and Mark Colonomos of Jewish heritage.[6] [7] [8] He grew up in Piermont, New York[9] and graduated from Emerson College, in Boston, Massachusetts.[5]

Career

Aaron started his journalism career on radio in 1999 at 18 years old working for Radio Disney.[10] After a brief stint hosting a radio show in Tucson, Arizona, he moved to Los Angeles and landed an on-air television hosting job for Daybreak OC, an Orange County-based morning lifestyle/news show serving all of Los Angeles. From there he went to KSWB in San Diego continuing his work as a features reporter until WNBC in New York picked him up. He has worked for NBCUniversal at WNBC as their host of New York Live.[10] There he received three consecutive Emmy Awards for "Best Features Reporter". He was a co-host of the nationally syndicated television program, Crazy Talk as well as being a correspondent for Extra.[11] [12] In September 2017, Aaron began co-hosting Pickler & Ben, a syndicated talk show, with country star Kellie Pickler.[13] After that talk show's cancellation in summer 2019, he returned to New York working for WPIX-TV as a morning features reporter at the start of 2020.

Personal life

In August 2013, Aaron became engaged to ABC News Chief Meteorologist Ginger Zee.[14] The couple wed on June 7, 2014.[15] Their son Adrian Benjamin Colonomos was born in December 2015. in Petoskey, Michigan.[16] On August 14, 2017, Zee announced on Good Morning America that she was pregnant with the couple's second child. On February 9, 2018, she gave birth to a boy, named Miles Macklin.[17] The family lives in Rockland County, New York.

See also

Notes and References

  1. Book: Zee . Ginger . Natural Disaster: I Cover Them. I Am One. . 2017 . Kingswell . Los Angeles . 244 .
  2. News: Kellie Pickler's new talk show 'Pickler & Ben' offers a little bit of everything . Morona . Joey . September 18, 2017 . . September 21, 2017.
  3. PIX11 announces Morning News expansion; station adds 9 a.m. hour beginning Jan. 2020. WPIX-TV. 18 December 2019. 31 December 2019.
  4. News: ABC News meteorologist Ginger Zee, husband Ben Aaron welcome son's birth . Dan . Good . . New York City . December 20, 2015 . August 14, 2017 . Aaron was born Benjamin Colonomos, but uses his middle name on television. . June 9, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160609114544/http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/abc-news-meteorologist-ginger-zee-ben-aaron-son-article-1.2472172 . live .
  5. Web site: Ben Aaron . About . . October 28, 2015 . August 14, 2017 . https://archive.today/20170814205702/https://www.facebook.com/pg/benaarontv/about/?tab=page_info . live .
  6. Web site: Mark Colonomos . Fathers Day KDOC. Ben Aaron . . . October 28, 2015 . January 19, 2013.
  7. Web site: Ben Aaron . Mother . . October 28, 2015 . December 28, 2010.
  8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXKr7WBK5_E Ben Aaron Meets Amish Mary
  9. Book: Zee . Ginger . Natural Disaster: I Cover Them. I Am One. . 2017 . Kingswell . Los Angeles . 251 .
  10. https://www.nbcumv.com/talent/ben-aaron?filter_type%5b2%5d=photos NBC Universal link
  11. Web site: Joi-Marie McKenzie . "Crazy Talk" Co-Host and Ginger Zee's Husband Ben Aaron Says Fatherhood Makes Him 'Nervous'; Talks New Show . . October 28, 2015 . September 17, 2015.
  12. Web site: KDFW . KDFW . New comedy show 'Crazy Talk' comes to my27 . . October 28, 2015 . October 5, 2015.
  13. Web site: Miller . Valerie . Scripps Greenlights New Lifestyle Talk Show in Partnership with Faith Hill . Scripps . E.W. Scripps . August 18, 2017.
  14. Web site: Ginger Zee: Taken by storm . May 30, 2014 . Splash . Chicago Splash . June 9, 2014 . June 10, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160610053245/http://www.chicagosplash.com/2014/05/30/ginger-zee-taken-by-storm.
  15. Web site: Ginger Zee Marries Ben Aaron . Strohm . Emily . . June 7, 2014 . August 14, 2017.
  16. News: Ginger Zee's wedding: See the 'after party' pictures from Petoskey . MLive.com . Todd . Chance . June 8, 2014 . August 14, 2017 . April 5, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160405230710/http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2014/06/see_the_exclusive_ginger_zee_w.html . live.
  17. Web site: ABC News chief meteorologist Ginger Zee expecting 2nd child . ABC News . August 14, 2017 . August 14, 2017.

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