Laurie Dhue
| Laurie Dhue | |
|---|---|
| Born |
February 10, 1969 Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Education |
The Westminster Schools (1986) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill B.S. Political Science (1990) |
| Occupation | Television journalist |
| Spouse(s) | Thomas Calcoate (divorced) Joe Schrank (engaged) |
| Relatives | Bob Dhue, former president of World Championship Wrestling (father) |
Laurie Walker Dhue (born February 10, 1969) is an American television journalist. Until April 2015, Dhue hosted episodes of TheBlaze's investigative journalism news magazine For the Record, and presented highlights of evening news on TheBlaze.com TV. Previously she was a Fox News Channel anchor from 2000–08, reporting for the television show Geraldo at Large and the host of Fox Report Weekend.
Although born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, she grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. Her mother is Hutton Dhue, and her father, Bob Dhue, was a former vice president of wrestling operations for World Championship Wrestling. Dhue graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science with a concentration in dramatic arts.
Before joining the Fox News Channel in 2000, she worked for MSNBC as host of its Special Edition. She started at MSNBC in April 1999 as the anchor of Newsfront. She worked at CNN from 1990-99, where she served as anchor for weekend programs, such as CNN Saturday, CNN Sunday, World View, and The World Today.
She interned as a weekend morning anchor for WSB-TV in Atlanta and did the occasional weekend edition of Today for NBC. She hosted the highly rated Fox Report weekend edition and appeared weekly on the number-one cable program The O'Reilly Factor. She also reported for Geraldo at Large, On the Record with Greta Van Susteren, and The Fox Report with Shepard Smith. Dhue served as the voice of the official Fox News Radio launch in 2004 and anchored evening news updates for several years. Most recently, she has made appearances once again on Fox News's Geraldo at Large, first as a guest discussing her victory over alcoholism and subsequently as a reporter and round-table panelist.
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