Ginger Zee Abc Bio Wiki Age Height Husband Kids GMA Education Salary and Net Worth
Ginger Zee (Other names Ginger Renee Colonomos) is an American meteorologist and a television personality. She currently serves as the chief meteorologist for ABC News. Before her current role, Ginger served as the network’s weekend meteorologist. She decided to become a meteorologist after seeing a waterspout on Lake Michigan when she was only eight years old. Ginger was mesmerized, she really thought it was the coolest thing she had ever seen.
At graduation, her major goal was to be a meteorologist onThe Today Showwhen she reaches the age of 30 years. After her graduation from college, Ginger served various media outlets including WEYI-TV based in Flint, Michigan, WYIN-TV based in Merrillville, Indiana, WLAV-FM as well as WOOD-TV both based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She as well worked as an intern under chief meteorologist James Spann at WBMA-LD ABC 33/40 based in Birmingham, Alabama.
Also, Ginger worked at an NBC-owned and operated station WMAQ based in Chicago, Illinois. ABC News announced on December 2, 2013, that Ginger would become Chief Meteorologist for Good Morning America as well as weather editor for ABC News. She took over the role from Sam Champion who left his role as ABC to take another job with The Weather Channel.
She was born on January 13, 1981, in Orange, California,United States of America. Ginger is41 years old.
She is a woman of above-average stature. Ginger stands at a height of5 ft 7 in ( Approx 1.7m).
She was born to her parentsDawn Zuidgeest-Craft(mother) andRobert Zuidgeest( father) on January 13, 1981, in Orange, California, United States. Her family relocated to Michigan while she was below one-year-old. Due toRobert’slove of a certain show, he named her daughter after “Ginger” from Gilligan’s Island.
Ginger has a stepfather calledCarl Craft, and two half-sisters namedAdriannaandElaina Craft. Her paternal grandparents are namedAdriaan Cornelis “Adrian” / “Arie” ZuidgeestandHillegonda “Hilda” Zuidgeest.They are both USA immigrants from the Netherlands.Her maternal grandparents are calledGeorge Joseph HemlebandPaula Adeline Wesner.
She was diagnosed with narcolepsy at the age of 21 years old. In August 2013, she became engaged to her fiance, a WNBC personality calledBenjamin Aaron Colonomos, akaBen Aaron. The couple exchanged their wedding vows on June 7, 2014.
Her first child, a son calledAdrian Benjamin Colonomos, was born in December 2015 in Petoskey, Michigan. On August 14, 2017, Ginger announced onGood Morning Americathat she was expecting her second child. In February 2018, she gave birth to her second son calledMiles Macklin. Currently, Ginger and her adorable family live in Manhattan.
In 1999, Ginger graduated from Rockford High School in Rockford, Michigan. Later, she went on to Valparaiso University. From there, she earned herself a Bachelor of Science degree in meteorology and a major in both mathematics and Spanish.
Currently, she serves as the chief meteorologist at ABC News. Ginger reports on the nation’s weather on “Good Morning America” and across all the ABC News broadcasts as well as digital platforms. Before that, she served as the meteorologist for “Good Morning America Weekend.” Also, Ginger hosts an ABC News original digital series called “Food Forecast.” She has covered almost every major weather event and dozens of historic storms since joining ABC News.
During Hurricane Sandy, Ginger broadcasted from the devastated Jersey Shore. She as well covered the Colorado floods, wildfires, and the aftermath of tornadoes in Moore and El Reno, Oklahoma. In 2013, Ginger covered extreme weather conditions that ranged from the Boston blizzard to the record-breaking heat in Death Valley. She also covered Hurricane Matthew in 2016 and its path along the east coast. Ginger started her career at WLAV FM/ WXMI based in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
She has storm chased since college and has a genuine passion for the atmosphere and she is also dedicated to getting young people interested in science. Ginger lends her voice to“Dr. Zephyr Skye”the storm-chasing alien of Disney Junior’s hit show“Miles from Tomorrowland.”Also, she and her husband, Ben Aaron star in“Renovation Realities:Ben & Ginger” on DIY Network. Additionally, from 2008 to 2011, Ginger served as an adjunct professor at the University. She as well holds the CBM Seal for Meteorology.
Ginger’s colleagues at ABC include:
N.J Burkett-correspondent
Mark Rivera-reporter
Stacey Baca-anchor
Dionne Miller-anchor
Larry Mowry-Meteorologist
Shannon Butler– anchor
Kassandra Crimi-meteorologist
Angela Jacobs-anchor
Alex Perez ABC-anchor
Her passion does not stop with storm chasing only. Ginger’s love of adventure has taken her and the ABC News viewers across the world. She has para-hawked in Nepal, she flown a drone into the fissure of a volcano in Iceland, para-glided from the Himalayas to the Andes, hiked the largest cave in the world in Vietnam, rappelled 27 stories down the exterior façade of the Wit Hotel in Chicago, dived with sharks in the Bahamas. Also, she did skydiving, iceboat racing, as well as surfing, live on GMA.
She worked at WMAQ from 2006 to 2011. While there, Ginger was once requested to fill in as a guest meteorologist on the weekend edition ofThe Today Show, and action fulfilled her high school goal. Additionally, she is an AMS Certified Broadcast Meteorologist. Ginger reached national prominence after joiningGood Morning AmericaWeekend on November 12, 2011. She occasionally appears on other ABC programmings including Nightline and ABC World News Tonight.
In 2015, Ginger competed against Bellamy Young in an episode of Celebrity Jeopardy. However, she did not win and Bellamy Young and Josh Gad won. Later, Ginger was announced as a celebrity competitor on March 4, 2016, on the 22nd season of ABC’s Dancing with the Stars. She paired with Valentin Chmerkovskiy, the professional dancer. However, as a couple, the pair reached third place.
Her Most Popular Books include:
-Natural Disaster: I Cover Them. I am One. Published on December 5, 2017.
-Force of Nature
-Chasing Helicity: Into the Wind. Published onApril 24, 2018
-A Little Closer to Home: How I Found the Calm After the Storm
Her main source of income is her job as the chief meteorologist for ABC News. Ginger earns an average salary of$77,462 per year.
From her very successful career, she has managed to accumulate a lot of wealth. Ginger has an estimated net worth of$1,562,218.
In August 2013, Ginger became engaged to her fiance, a WNBC personality calledBenjamin Aaron Colonomos, akaBen Aaron. The couple exchanged their wedding vows on June 7, 2014.
Her main source of income is her job as the chief meteorologist for ABC News. Ginger earns an average salary of$77,462 per year.
Ginger married a WNBC personality calledBenjamin Aaron Colonomos, aka Ben Aaron. The couple exchanged their wedding vows on June 7, 2014. Their first child, a son called Adrian Benjamin Colonomos born in December 2015 in Petoskey, Michigan, and their second son Miles Macklin live with them in Manhattan.
