Gretchen Carlson

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Gretchen Carlson
A photo of American journalist Gretchen Carlson.
Carlson in 2017
Born
Gretchen Elizabeth Carlson

(1966-06-21) June 21, 1966 (age 55)
Coon Rapids, Anoka, Minnesota, U.S.[1]
Alma materStanford University
Occupation
  • Television journalist
  • author
  • speaker
  • philanthropist
Years active1989–present
OrganizationLift Our Voices
Notable credit(s)
The Saturday Early Show co-host (2002–2005)
Fox and Friends co-host (2005–2013)
The Real Story with Gretchen Carlson host (2013–2016)
TelevisionCBS News (2000–2005)
Fox News (2005–2016)
Title
MovementMe Too movement
Spouse(s)
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(m. 1997)​
Children2
Websitegretchencarlson.com

Gretchen Elizabeth Carlson (born June 21, 1966[2]) is an American broadcast journalist, author, television personality, violinist, Miss America winner, and female empowerment advocate. Carlson appeared as the host of numerous television programs, most notably on the Saturday edition of The Early Show on CBS News from 2002 to 2005, Fox News’ morning show Fox & Friends from 2005 to 2013 and The Real Story with Gretchen Carlson on Fox News from 2013 to 2016.

In July 2016, Carlson filed a lawsuit against then Fox News Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes claiming sexual harassment.[3] Subsequently, dozens of other women also stepped forward to accuse Ailes of harassment,[4] and Ailes resigned under pressure. In September 2016, Carlson and 21st Century Fox settled the lawsuit reportedly for $20 million and Carlson received a public apology.[5] Carlson was one of the first high publicity cases of 2016's #MeToo movement.

Carlson was named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People In The World in 2017.[6] She has written two bestselling books, her memoir, Getting Real and the New York Times Bestseller Be Fierce: Stop Harassment and Take Your Power Back. Carlson has interviewed every Presidential candidate and President over the last two decades.

It was announced that Carlson would join PeopleTV as a Special Contributor in October 2020.[7] Carlson is also the host of a daily news podcast by Quake Media, called Get the News with Gretchen Carlson. The political podcast discusses both liberal and conservative news headlines, as well as current world events.[8]

Early life and education[]

Carlson was born in Coon Rapids, Anoka County, Minnesota, the daughter of Karen Barbara (née Hyllengren) and Lee Roy Carlson, one of four children.[1] Her father studied business at Gustavus Adolphus College and later became owner/operator of Main Motor Sales, an automobile dealership started by her grandfather in 1919.[9][10] Carlson, whose grandfather was a minister, is of Swedish descent through both parents.[11] One of her childhood babysitters was Michele Bachmann, the future Republican congresswoman who also ran for president.[12]

Carlson's hometown of Anoka, Minnesota is the "Halloween Capital of the World" and hosts the state's second largest parade, of which Carlson served as Grand Marshal in 2004.

In her youth, Carlson was a prodigy violinist who performed on radio and television.[13] She studied with Dorothy Delay at the Juilliard School of Music in New York City.[14] She also studied with Mary West of the MacPhail Center For Music in Minneapolis. Carlson competed in several competitions such as the Stulberg International String Competition where she was a finalist in 1982, the American String Teachers Association where she won second place in 1981 to Joshua Bell, who became a world famous concert violinist, and the Friends of Minnesota Orchestra which she won in 1979, performing as a soloist with the Minnesota Orchestra as a prize at just 13 years old. She attended Aspen Music Festival from 1976 to 1983 and was a member of the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphony from 1980 to 1984. Carlson graduated from Anoka-Hennepin School District 11's Anoka High School, where she was the 1984 class valedictorian.[13]

Carlson was crowned Miss Minnesota in June 1988[14] and became Miss America 1989 on September 10, 1988. She was the first classical violinist to win those titles.[15][16] Following Carlson's Miss America win, she was invited to meet President Ronald Reagan in the Oval Office. She made many television appearances during her year of service, including appearing on The David Letterman Show, where he jokingly asked her out on a date. After Carlson's appearance as a newscaster in a sketch on Bloopers and Practical Jokes with Ed McMahon and Dick Clark, television agents began calling, eventually launching her career in broadcast television.

Carlson graduated from Stanford University in 1990 with honors, where she studied organizational behavior.[17] While there, she spent a study-abroad period at Oxford University, studying the works of Virginia Woolf.[17] She was a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. Carlson planned to attend law school after Stanford and completed the LSAT exam, but instead focused on a career in broadcast journalism.

In September 2011, Carlson was named to the inaugural class of the Anoka High School Hall of Fame.[13][18]

Career[]

Early career and CBS News[]

Carlson with President Ronald Reagan in 1988

A year after becoming Miss America in 1989, Carlson secured a role on WRIC-TV, an ABC-affiliated television station serving Richmond, Virginia as a co-anchor on the network and political commentator. Style Weekly deemed it a coup for WRIC-TV at the time.[19] In 1992, she joined WCPO-TV, serving Cincinnati, Ohio as a media commentator and remained at the station for a period of two years.[20] She later worked at WOIO/WUAB in Cleveland, Ohio, where Carlson and her colleague Denise Dufala, became the first women to co-anchor a primetime major-market newscast.[21]

Following her time in Cleveland, Carlson served as a weekend anchor and reporter for KXAS-TV in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, from 1998 to 2000.[22]

In both Dallas and Cleveland, Carlson performed her own rendition of The Star-Spangled Banner on the violin for Major League Baseball games.

Carlson moved to the national television scene as a national correspondent in 2000 and in 2002, she became the co-anchor of the Saturday edition of The Early Show on CBS along with Russ Mitchell. Carlson frequently anchored the weekend edition of the CBS Evening News during her time at the network.

There were several cultural moments that Carlson reported on in her early career as a reporter including the Oklahoma City bombing and the O. J. Simpson murder case while at WOIO in Cleveland, and the Timothy McVeigh execution, the September 11 terrorist attacks, and various G7 Summit meetings while at CBS News.

Fox News[]

Carlson first appeared on Fox & Friends as a weekend substitute host in 2006. On September 25, 2006, after a shifting of anchors, which included E.D. Hill moving to the 10 a.m. hour of Fox News Live, Carlson became the anchor of Fox & Friends. She co-hosted with Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade for almost 8 years. In 2012, she walked off the set of Fox & Friends when on-air colleagues made offensive comment about women in the workplace. In 2013, Carlson admitted on Brian Kilmeade's radio show that Fox News female anchors were not allowed to wear pants. Despite dress code restrictions, Carlson was known for doing push-ups when military personnel were guests on the show. Carlson returned to Fox and Friends in 2014 during a Cooking With Friends segment with her children and again in 2015 to promote her memoir Getting Real.

Carlson left Fox & Friends in September 2013 to anchor a one-hour daytime program, The Real Story with Gretchen Carlson, beginning in the fall of 2013, taking part of the slot opened by Megyn Kelly's move to primetime.[23][24] She began covering stories that supported women's rights, including a piece on Robin Wright of the Netflix series House of Cards demanding the same salary as Kevin Spacey. In 2013, Carlson became the first cable news television anchor to go on air with no makeup. Just three weeks before she was fired, she came forward in support of the assault weapons ban.

During her tenure at Fox News Carlson covered multiple world events including both the first and second inauguration of Barack Obama, the Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton, and the Democratic National Convention and Republican National Convention in 2008 and 2012.

2016–present[]

Miss America Organization[]

Main article: Miss America

On January 1, 2018, Carlson was elected chairwoman of the board of directors of the Miss America Organization, a volunteer position.[25] Shortly after joining as Chairwoman, Carlson's first major decision was to remove the swimsuit competition from the pageant, following a unanimous vote from the Board of Directors. It was reported on CNN that Carlson's goals were to transition the pageant into "Miss America 2.0", where the swimsuit competitions would be replaced with on-stage interviews. The move aimed to shift focus from appearances to achievements, in light of the Me Too movement.[26] The move divided opinion mostly within the organization.

In early 2019, it was announced that the Miss America brand would return to NBC.[27] The return was seen as a coup for Miss America under Carlson's leadership, as it would raise much-needed funds prior to its 100th anniversary.[28] After securing the network deal, Carlson resigned from Chairwoman of the Board in June 2019.[29]

Other television and media[]

In April 2018, Carlson reached a first-look development deal with A&E Networks, under which she would host three documentary specials across its channels, such as Lifetime. Gretchen Carlson: Breaking the Silence focuses on the every woman story of workplace sexual harassment and premiered on Lifetime on January 14, 2019.[30][31]

In May 2018, Carlson was a correspondent on an episode of the television documentary series America Divided, which airs on Epix. Carlson produced her episode with Norman Lear, titled "Washington's War on Women" about sexual harassment on Capitol Hill.[32][33]

Carlson also hosted Live PD Presents: Women on Patrol and Escaping Polygamy on Lifetime in 2018. In August 2019, it was announced that Carlson would host of two hourlong documentaries from the "Beyond the Headlines" franchise. The first called Escaping the NXIVM Cult: A Mother's Fight to Save Her Daughter, and the second The College Admissions Scandal.

In December 2019, Carlson wrote an opinion article in New York Times, stating that she still cannot disclose what happened to her due to a nondisclosure agreement, but that it was her desire to be able to do so.[34]

In January 2020, Carlson announced a new television deal with Blumhouse Productions to produce a new interview style series.[35]

In October 2020, it was announced that Carlson would join PEOPLE (the TV Show!) as a Special Contributor. In the new program from PeopleTV, Carlson will highlight everyday American heroes.

In April 2021, Carlson and her life story was featured on the PBS television program Finding Your Roots in order to explore her family genealogy. It was shown through investigative and DNA research that she is a full-blooded Scandinavian-American, and that much of her family originated in Småland, Sweden.[36]

Advocacy[]

Me Too movement[]

With one bold legal filing, Carlson exposed Ailes’s predatory tactics, dragged Fox News into the twenty-first century, affected Trump’s presidential race, and lit the match that led to the modern-day #MeToo movement. The Ailes scandal led The New York Times to look more deeply into Bill O’Reilly, which led other Times reporters to ask around about Harvey Weinstein, and now Weinstein is behind bars and the world is at least a little bit more equitable.

—Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth by Brian Stelter

On July 6, 2016, Carlson filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Fox News chairman Roger Ailes in the Superior Court of New Jersey and confirmed on her Twitter account that she was no longer with Fox News.[37] In her complaint, Carlson alleged that she was fired from her program for refusing Ailes's sexual advances.[37] Ailes at the time claimed the accusations were false, while the law firm representing Carlson claimed ten other women had contacted them to speak of Ailes' behavior at Fox News and throughout his television career.[38]

Carlson's allegations received widespread media coverage.[39] After Carlson came forward, six more women spoke to Gabriel Sherman of New York magazine, alleging that Ailes had sexually harassed them and that Ailes "spoke openly of expecting women to perform sexual favors in exchange for job opportunities."[40] Shortly thereafter, Carlson sat down for an interview with John Koblin of The New York Times, saying, "I wanted to stand up for other women who maybe facing similar circumstances."[41]

As the case progressed, Carlson reached out directly to her fans, thanking them in a series of Twitter videos[42][43] and offering her support for fellow victims of sexual harassment.[44] She also criticized Fox's attempt to force her claims to be adjudicated via closed-door mandatory arbitration rather than in court. Fox filed court papers arguing that Carlson was compelled by her contract to adjudicate her claims in arbitration.[45] Carlson said: "Forcing victims of sexual harassment into secret arbitration proceedings is wrong, because it means nobody finds out what really happened."[45]

After Ailes resigned on July 21, 2016,[46] Carlson said she felt "relief that now I would be believed," though she also "felt angry that it took so long" for Ailes to step down.[47] Eight days later, her Fox program The Real Story aired its final episode.

On September 6, 2016, 21st Century Fox announced that it had settled the lawsuit with Carlson. The settlement was reportedly $20 million. As part of the settlement, 21st Century Fox apologized to Carlson, saying, "We sincerely regret and apologize for the fact that Gretchen was not treated with the respect and dignity that she and all of our colleagues deserve."[5]

Philanthropy and public work[]

Since her harassment complaint became public, Carlson has focused her public work to modify laws that protect predators. In December 2017, she joined a bi-partisan coalition of legislators to introduce the “Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Harassment Act,” which voids forced arbitration agreements that prevent sexual harassment survivors from getting their day in court. Co-sponsors of the bill were Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Lindsay Graham (R-SC) and Representatives Cheri Bustos (D-IL) and Elise Stefanik (R-NY). The bill was reintroduced in the House in February 2019. Carlson testified before the House Judiciary Committee in May, 2019.

Carlson created the "Gift of Courage Fund" in 2017 and partnered with the nonprofit organization All In Together to create the Gretchen Carlson Leadership Initiative, (GCLI) a program meant to "bring civic leadership and advocacy training to thousands of underserved women across the country, with a special focus on empowering women who have experienced gender-based violence, discrimination, or harassment."[48] The initiative has hosted 13 community engagement workshops since its founding.[49] In 2018, Carlson's Gift of Courage Fund also supplied the grant to create the Gretchen Carlson March of Dimes Advocacy Fellows, a program that selected 20 women from across the country to become more civically involved in promoting legislation and policies benefitting women and children.[50] More recently, Carlson created the non-profit organization “Lift Our Voices” with the mission of eradicating arbitration clauses in employment contracts and non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) that serve to silence women and men in the workplace.

Carlson is a longtime supporter of Miss You Can Do It, a pageant with an emphasis "not on looks but courage." Founded by Abbey Curran, a former Miss Iowa USA winner who was born with cerebral palsy, the pageant honors girls and young women who live with special needs and challenges.[51] It was the subject of an HBO documentary in 2013. In 2016, Carlson served as the pageant's MC.[52] When its organizers fell short of their fundraising goals (threatening the cancellation of the pageant), Carlson volunteered to cover the remaining expenses. On social media, the pageant thanked her for "saving Miss You Can Do It."

Carlson serves on the Global Leadership Board of the Times Up Foundation, the March of Dimes National Board as a Trustee, the Catherine Violet Hubbard Foundation Gala Committee, the Greenwich Academy Board, and on the Advisory Committee of The Press Forward. She is also a member of Women Moving Millions, a global collective of women making unprecedented gifts of $1 million or more for the advancement of women and girls.

In 2017, Carlson was named one of Times Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World, was the recipient of the prestigious Matrix Award, and was named to Variety's Most Powerful Women Of Impact list. In 2018, she received the 2018 YWCA Phenomenal Woman Award and the New York National Organization of Women (NOW) Women of Power and Influence Award. In 2020, Carlson received the Sandra Day O’Connor Lifetime Achievement Award from the Arizona Foundation for Women. In July 2020, Carlson headlined a panel with Bethenny Frankel on how global emergencies affect philanthropic priorities for Town & Country's 2020 Philanthropy Summit.

Lift Our Voices[]

At The Hollywood Reporter's 2019 Women in Entertainment ceremony, Carlson spoke about her lawsuit against Fox News over sexual harassment and announced her new anti-nondisclosure agreements initiative, Lift Our Voices, (LOV) which she founded with former Fox News colleagues Julie Roginsky and Diana Falzone. The organization advocates for laws banning the use of arbitration clauses in employment contracts and confidentiality agreements in sexual harassment settlements. The initiative focuses on NDA's solely dealing with toxic workplace environment issues like sexual harassment, not those protecting trade secrets.

In November 2020, lawsuits discovered by Business Insider found that multiple women had stated in legal filings that Michael R. Bloomberg, the former New York City mayor and presidential candidate, fostered a toxic, fraternity-like culture at his company during the 1990s. Carlson's organization LOV asked every Presidential candidate to sign on to supporting Lift Our Voices in January 2020. Every candidate did except for President Donald J. Trump, Senator Bernie Sanders, Senator Amy Klobuchar and former Mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg. Soon thereafter, Carlson's organization wrote an op-ed in The Des Moines Register encouraging the debate moderators in Iowa to ask the Democratic presidential candidates about their stance on NDA's. The question did appear on the debate state and after appearing in his first and only presidential debate, Bloomberg ended his campaign partly due to the heavy scrutiny surrounding the topic of NDAs.

In popular culture[]

Carlson with Naomi Watts in 2019.

Gretchen Carlson has appeared on magazine covers ranging from Good Housekeeping to Time. Vanessa Bayer regularly impersonated Carlson during her tenure on NBC's Saturday Night Live. Jon Stewart dedicated an entire segment to Carlson on The Daily Show criticizing her for dumbing herself down to connect with the Fox News audience who he says, "sees intellect as an elitist flaw."

The Loudest Voice miniseries[]

Gretchen was the first, she was the pioneer and that took unimaginable courage. She stood up to the most powerful man in her industry—worked in a toxic, misogynistic environment for so many years where everyone just had to play ball or they were pushed out. But she decided to head straight into the melee—alone and vastly outnumbered. Taking a stand and saying ’No, this is not OK. I will not be undervalued. I will not be harassed—mentally and physically', and she just kicked straight into self-preservation mode and figured out a way to fight back. And she did it all with grace, dignity and strength. Before there was #MeToo, Gretchen was taking an incredible stand for herself. And since, has led the way for so many others. Taking on Goliath took a lot of courage… She lost her job, she lost her chosen career, her identity and she was pushed away, undermined and undervalued. But she endured it and came out stronger in the end. Telling Gretchen Carlson's story is one of the greatest privileges of my career. As women we owe her a debt of gratitude. I sure as hell do.

—Naomi Watts

In 2019, Carlson's career at Fox News was portrayed on the Showtime miniseries, The Loudest Voice. Her role as co-anchor at Fox News was depicted by actress Naomi Watts. Watts stated in interviews that the story of Carlson was "inspiring" and that she dealt with multiple scenarios with "dignity and grace."[53]

Other cast members included Russell Crowe as Roger Ailes, Seth MacFarlane as Brian Lewis and Sienna Miller as Beth Tilson. The fifth episode in the series portrayed the deteriorating working relationship between Carlson and Ailes from 2012 onwards. Many incidents were portrayed to the public for the first time, since Carlson was unable to speak directly about the events, due to a confidentiality clause in the settlement between her and Fox News.[54][55]

The Loudest Voice portrayed a number of events at Fox News which were set up by executives to discredit Carlson shortly before she left the organization. Naomi Watts spoke of one such event in an interview, where a random guest was put on her show shortly before it aired live, with the sole goal of attacking Carlson on live television.[53]

The series aired the audio recordings taken by Carlson during her time at Fox News for the first time. The recordings were of various incidents at Fox where Carlson was sexually harassed by Ailes and other colleagues at Fox News. The show also follows the incidents leading up to Carlson reporting the sexual harassment she received.[56] The Loudest Voice then portrayed her demotion and the events that followed her filing the internal complaint, many of which were recorded.[57] The recordings went on to play a major part in the settlement negotiations between Carlson and Fox News.[58]

Bombshell film[]

When Gretchen Carlson stepped forward with this lawsuit at Fox against Roger Ailes, there really was no movement...there was no #TimesUp, there was no #MeToo...this was before Harvey Weinstein, before all of the numerous stories that we know now… I sometimes refer to it as an origin story... they were a catalyst. They brought us to this place.

—Charlize Theron

Bombshell, a film portraying Carlson's career at Fox News, was released on December 13, 2019. Carlson is played by Nicole Kidman, with other cast members including Margot Robbie as Kayla Pospisil (a composite character), Charlize Theron as Megyn Kelly, and John Lithgow as Roger Ailes. The film follows events at Fox News in the run-up to Ailes resigning from the organization after being exposed for sexual harassment.[59]

Awards and recognition[]

Awards[]

  • Cover of Time magazine's October 2016 issue
  • Cover of Good Housekeeping magazine's January 2017 issue
  • Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People In The World in 2017
  • 2017 New York Women in Communications Matrix Award
  • 2017 National Employment Lawyers Association Courage Award
  • 2017 American Association of Justice Award
  • 2018 "Champion for Change" Award at the Los Angeles Young Women's Christian Association Phenomenal Women Awards
  • 2018 Women of Power and Influence Award at the National Organization for Women
  • NOW NYC Women of Courage Award 2018
  • Texas Trailblazer Award 2017 from Family Place Domestic Violence Center in Dallas
  • CAPS community service award - Long Island, NY 2018
  • RTNDA (Radio, Television, Newspaper, Digital Association) 1st Amendment Award in DC 2019
  • Center for Safety and Change Courage award 40th anniversary 2019
  • Sandra Day O’Connor Lifetime Achievement Award — Arizona Foundation For Women 2020

Speeches[]

Personal life[]

On October 4, 1997, Carlson married sports agent Casey Close.[80][81] They live in Greenwich, Connecticut,[82] with their two children.[11][83]

She announced on Fox & Friends on June 9, 2009, and repeated on Glenn Beck's Fox News program, that her parents' car dealership had been selected for closure as part of the General Motors reorganization and bankruptcy.[84][85] A year later, the (Minneapolis) Star Tribune reported that "It took an act of Congress, a national TV appeal and maybe a little bit of history on the owners' side, but Main Motor, the Anoka car dealership that Lee and Karen Carlson's family has owned for 91 years, will keep its General Motors dealership after all."[86]

She is of no relation to fellow Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson.

Carlson remains an advocate of the arts from her experience as a child violinist. Both of Carlson's children are pianists. At the age of 9, Carlson's daughter organized a solo piano recital in their hometown of Greenwich, Connecticut to raise money for charity. Shortly after the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting, Kaia's recital raised $5,000 for an animal sanctuary started in honor of victim Catherine Violet Hubbard. Today she serves on the teenage advisory board.[87]

As a string instrumentalist in her youth, Carlson had admired cellist Yo-Yo Ma, whom she eventually met when they both spoke at the 2019 Dreamforce Conference in San Francisco.[88]

Bibliography[]

In 2015, Carlson released her first book, Getting Real, a bestselling inspirational memoir about her life growing up in Minnesota, her violin career, Miss America experience and television career.[89]

In 2017, Carlson released her second book, Be Fierce: Stop Harassment And Take Your Power Back. The book discussed as much of Carlson's story at Fox News as she was allowed to comment on because of the NDA she signed, but also many other stories of sexual harassment in the workplace from women who reached out to Carlson after her story became public. The profits from the book, a New York Times bestseller, go to the Gift of Courage Fund.[90][91]

Carlson has appeared in two TED talks, one discussing women's rights and sexual harassment in the workplace, and the other discussing the hyper-partisan political times we live in and how we might come together as a nation to solve issues.

  • Carlson, Gretchen: Getting Real. New York City: Viking, 2015. ISBN 978-0-5254-2745-2.
  • Carlson, Gretchen: Be Fierce: Stop Harassment and Take Your Power Back. Center Street, 2017. ISBN 978-1478992172.

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Kaye Lani Rae Rafko 		Miss America
1989 		Succeeded by
Debbye Turner
Preceded by
Katherine Killeen 		Miss Minnesota
1988 		Succeeded by
Susan Johnson
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