Arthel Neville
| Arthel Neville | |
|---|---|
| Born |
October 20, 1962 New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Occupation | Television news anchor and reporter, television personality |
| Years active | 1980–present |
| Employer | Fox Entertainment Group |
| Spouse(s) |
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| Parent(s) | Art Neville, Doris Neville |
Arthel Neville (born October 20, 1962) is an American journalist, television personality, and weekend anchor for Fox News Channel.
Neville is the daughter of Doris Neville and Art Neville, singer, songwriter, keyboardist, solo artist and founder of the New Orleans music groups The Hawketts, The Meters, and The Neville Brothers.
Arthel Neville was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, and graduated from St. Mary's Dominican High School in New Orleans. After graduating, she traveled to New York City to pursue acting and modeling. She landed commercials and a recurring role on the soap opera Days of Our Lives before returning to New Orleans. She enrolled in prepharmacy at Xavier University before switching to journalism at Southern Methodist University. She finally landed at the University of Texas at Austin, where she earned a bachelor’s in journalism.
She began her career as a general assignment reporter at KVUE-TV while a junior at the University of Texas at Austin School of Journalism.
The first female African-American on-air reporter at KVUE-TV, her general assignment beat took her to the streets of Austin covering live breaking news, politics, education, health, and human-interest stories.
Neville’s first job after graduation was in New Orleans as a reporter/anchor for WWL. In 1988 she moved back to Texas for a one-year stint as a reporter for Houston's KHOU-TV. Neville returned to New Orleans as an anchor/reporter for WVUE.
In 1991 she landed the host spot on Extreme Close-Up, a one-on-one celebrity interview show that she co-produced for E! Entertainment TV. During three years with the program she logged over 200 interviews with stars from Will Smith to Tom Cruise to Sharon Stone, becoming the nation’s first high-profile black female entertainment reporter. During this period she also covered live entertainment events for the network and occasionally filled in as host on their signature show Talk Soup. In 1994 she beat out over 1,000 hopefuls to launch and anchor Extra for Warner Brothers studios, becoming the first African-American woman to host a nationally syndicated entertainment news magazine program. Neville remained with Extra until 1996 when the program was revamped. In 1997, she teamed up with sportscaster Fred Roggin to host The Arthel & Fred Show, a syndicated daytime entertainment news program that lasted only one season. A year later, Neville left Los Angeles for New York and became a senior correspondent on the Fox Network’s syndicated news magazine Fox Files, and at Fox News Channel as an anchor, correspondent, host of Celebrity Spotlight, and weekly contributor on The O’Reilly Factor.
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