When Shawn Elizabeth Killinger was born, she was born under the sign of Scorpio. She is a 40-year-old journalist and TV personality who is best known for her work as a newscaster and anchor for QVC.
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Shawn Killinger, Salary and Net Worth:
For more than two decades, Shawn Killinger has worked as a TV anchor, newscaster, and host. His net worth is more than $1 million. Her salary at QVC is expected to be at least $80,000 a year.
She also made money by appearing on a reality TV game show.
Childhood, Nationality, and Ethnicity
Shawn Killinger grew raised in her hometown of Detroit; her nationality is American, and she is of white Caucasian ethnicity. Shawn went to Mexico City with her family when she was 11 years old, where she resided for four years. During that time, she learned Spanish and became fluent in it.
Background in Education
She attended the International American School Foundation before transferring to Penn State University, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Marketing. Shawn Killinger went through Europe before becoming a TV personality, and she lived in Geneva, Switzerland, where she worked at the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Labor Organization (ILO) (ILO).
Beginnings of a Career
After she came back to the United States, Shawn got a job as a reporter and set assistant at the CBS Network. She worked on shows like “CBS 60 Minutes” and “CBS Evening News With Dan Rather,” as well as the late-night talk show “Late Show With David Letterman.” She also worked on “Foreign Desk.”
After that, she worked as a general assignment reporter for WUHF-TV, a Fox-affiliated TV station that was licensed to Rochester, New York State, and she worked there for a while after. When Shawn was a news anchor at WKMG-TV, a CBS-affiliated station in both Orlando, Florida, and Albany, New York, he was one of the hosts of the CBS Channel 6 morning news show.
QVC and Ascend to Prominence
Shawn’s big break came in 2005 when she was picked as one of 16 finalists for the NBC network’s reality TV game show “The Apprentice: Martha Stewart.”
Despite being sent home in the third week because Martha didn’t like her slogan “fake it until you make it,” Shawn was a huge success. She was employed by QVC, one of the top American flagship shopping channels, two years later. She is still employed there as the host of a four-hour live program.
Social media presence:
This 39-year-old American TV personality is also active on various popular social media platforms, including Instagram, where her official account @shawnkillingerqvc has about 68,000 admirers and followers. She was also highly active on Twitter until 2015 when she had over 10,000 followers.
Physical Appearance and Vital Statistics
Long blonde hair
Dark brown eyes
Height – 5ft 5ins (1.65m)
Weight – 111lbs (50kgs)
Vital Statistics – 33-24-33
Personal life: Joe Carretta, husband, residence
Shawn Killing has a husband. Joe Carretta, a skilled consultant, and businessman is her husband and the executive director of the Sunrise Senior Living firm. They met on an internet dating site called eHarmony and quickly got emotionally attached. The couple married on April 13, 2013, and currently reside in West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Miscarriage, Children, and Cancer
As of now, the couple doesn’t have any children. Shawn had a miscarriage in the fifth month of her pregnancy in 2014 and hasn’t been pregnant since.
But she did adopt Joe’s two children from his first marriage. In 2017, they also took in a girl named Jagger Jude. Following the miscarriage, there were some suspicions that it was caused by kidney cancer, but this was never proven to be the case.
Volunteering for Charities
Shawn Killinger, a well-known TV personality, is also known for her charitable work, with which she collaborates with a variety of organizations. She began working with the Make-A-Wish Foundation in 2008 and has been the charity’s ‘Wish Granter’ ever since, fulfilling the wishes of children suffering from various life-threatening illnesses.
Controversies
After a disagreement with designer Isaac Mizrahi on whether the Moon is a star or a planet in January 2015, Shawn Killinger was publicly ridiculed. It was revealed to them after a brief conversation that the Moon is a natural satellite of the Earth. An anonymous petition on the ‘Pissed Consumer’ website in June of that year, requesting that she be removed from her job as a presenter, claiming that she was a “egomaniacal” “Shawnie Sue” character, was filed in response to her appearance on the show. Although the petition received 24,000 views and 2,000 comments, no action was taken as a result of the petition..
