Who is Jennifer Lahmers?
Jennifer Lahmers was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio USA, on 19 February 1984 – her zodiac sign is Pisces and she holds American nationality. She is a TV news reporter and an anchor, perhaps known best for working as a correspondent for the American syndicated news broadcasting show “Extra”. Jennifer’s skills have won her a nomination for an Emmy Award.
Early life and education
Jennifer hasn’t talked about any siblings, in fact it’s believed that she was raised an only child in Tuscarawas County, by her father William and her mother Cathy.
Jennifer was around eight years old when she became interested in journalism and reporting, and she and her friends Steffanie, Theresa and Erin, played with their imagined WJET TV station, recording fake news nearly every day. Jennifer went on to study at Dover High School, and during the four years she spent there became even more interested in journalism, while she was also keen on doing many other things, including acting with the school’s drama club, and helping organize various student events.
Upon matriculating in 2002, she enrolled at Ohio University’s E. W. Scripps School of Journalism, from which she obtained her Bachelor’s degree in 2006.
Career as a reporter
Jennifer started working as soon as she finished college, joining the TV station WBBJ-TV working as a reporter – for the job, she had to move to Jackson in Tennessee. After a while, Jennifer was allowed to anchor the weekend news, while she also had to work without the help of writers and additional crew, even occasionally shooting items of news by herself.
Tonight on #ExtraTV: @CakeBossBuddy talks with @jennlahmers about his road to recovery and getting back to work after his freak accident.#CakeBoss pic.twitter.com/z3WyCRfP4p
— ExtraTV (@extratv) December 23, 2020
She went on to join Fox 61 (former Fox CT) in 2007, and thus moved to Hartford in Connecticut – she worked as a reporter for five years, including spending some time working as their weekend news anchor, before quitting in 2012.
During those years while she was working her way up in the field of journalism, Jennifer also worked as a freelancer, including writing columns for the largest daily USA newspaper “The Hartford Courant”.
She joined the golf lifestyle cable Back9Network in 2012 – owned by her former husband – and worked there for the following two years before being invited to join WNYW-TV, a Fox-affiliated network in New York City.
She was their general assignments reporter for the following three year,s before she started co-anchoring their morning show “Good Day Wake Up”.
She gained recognition in August 2019 when invited to join the show “Extra” as a correspondent, which meant moving to Los Angeles in California. Jennifer is in charge of covering Hollywood film premieres, various red carpet events, as well as conducting studio interviews.
Jennifer is quite active on Instagram and Twitter, as it’s somewhat important for her career to be able to inform her fans about the most recent news.
She is followed by close to 70,000 people on Instagram, while she’s uploaded more than 2,000 pictures, most of which have been taken during her everyday life. She’s been active on Twitter since June 2010, and is followed by close to 20,000 people, while she tends to tweet at least once a week.
Love life and husband
Jennifer is quite secretive when it comes to her love life, but it is known that she was married to James Bosworth, an American professional golf player and cable network executive.
The two married in a private ceremony held at Tehama golf course in Carmel, California attended by their closest friends and family, on 2 July 2011 – it’s believed that the two were engaged for several years before exchanging vows.
After three years of married life, Jennifer and James divorced for unknown reasons.
In 2016, Jennifer uploaded a picture with a certain Dr. Mike onto her Instagram account, wishing him a happy birthday and calling him her love – it is believed that the two dated for around a year, as they stopped uploading pictures featuring themselves together in 2017, while Jennifer has also deleted the above mentioned picture of the two.
Jennifer is trying her best to help prevent domestic violence – she became interested in the topic after her friend and colleague Alice Morrin was killed by her husband.
As of November 2020, Jennifer is single, has been married, and doesn’t have children.
Hobbies and other interests
Jennifer likes to dress up for Halloween, and hasn’t so far missed a single opportunity to put on a costume, paint her face and attend a party – her most recent Halloween costume can be seen featured in one of her Instagram pictures.
She likes to travel, and her job as a journalist has taken her all around the US, visiting nearly every state, while Jennifer has also had a chance to vacation in Europe – her dream travel destination is Paris in France.
She is physically very active as she works out three to four times at the gym each week, and she’s also following a very strict, diet thus her fit body.
Age, height and salary
Jennifer’s age is 36. She has long brown hair and brown eyes, her height is 5ft 10ins (1.78m) and she weighs around 120lbs (55kgs).
As of November 2020, her net worth has been estimated at over $1.2 million.