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Michelle Charlesworth

On September 8, 2011, Charlesworth moderated a symposium at Pace University entitled, “How Media Images of Disaster are Shaped — and Shape Us.” The event marked the 10th anniversary of the events of 9/11.

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Personal and Family Life

Charlesworth married her husband, Steve Livingstone, on September 13, 2003, after three years of dating. The couple spent their honeymoon in Greece, visiting Athens, Santorini, and Mykonos. She gave birth to her first child, a daughter, Isabelle Marlene, on October 16, 2006. She had her second child, a son, Jack James, on September 29, 2009. In a Facebook post in 2017, she discussed what has made her marriage a happy one: “...it is not just the bricks, it's the mortar. In other words, who were [sic] are together is what makes the magic. It is what happens in the space between us: laughter, forgiveness, kindness, help, compassion, listening, child rearing, cooking, dancing and remembering.”

She is a very social person who loves to spend time with her family and friends. During her free time she enjoys activities such as tennis, visiting the beach (with adequate protection from the sun), and cooking and consuming Italian food. She especially enjoys eating her husband's smoked ribs in homemade BBQ sauce. According to her Twitter posts, she loves Elton John's music, and has a dog named Preshos. She has visited Israel six times, and took her family with her on her last visit in 2017. She and her family currently live in New Jersey.

In 2005, the New York Post reported that Charlesworth was stalked by a disturbed fan, Jose Riofrio. She took out a restraining order against him after he had sent threatening letters containing photos and began waiting for her outside the WABC-TV studios. A security guard who was a former NYPD officer recognized Riofrio from the photos and detained him until police arrived.

In 2012, Charlesworth was saved by an NYPD officer from another overzealous fan. She acknowledged her rescuer, Officer Billy Irwin, in a Facebook post in 2018.

Social Media Life

Charlesworth is very active on social media. She joined Twitter in 2011, and currently has over 33,000 followers. She posts almost daily on Facebook, and has over 60,000 followers and 61,000 likes on her primary Facebook page, and 17,000 followers on her secondary Facebook page. She frequently enjoys posting pictures of her children and her adventures with her family. She often responds to posts by fans. She has over 21,000 followers on Instagram, and has posted over 2,100 pictures for her fans.

Net worth

Charlesworth has had a very successful career in television journalism, and is rumored to earn over $400,000 annually. She is currently estimated to be worth approximately $5 million dollars.

Awards

In 2002, Charlesworth received the Gold Triangle Award from the American Academy of Dermatology for her reports about her own experience with skin cancer. She was also the subject of an article that same year in the ADD publication, Dermatology Insights.

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Quick Facts
Birth Date: 7 Jun, 1970
Age: 49 yrs
Occupations: Journalist
Presenter
Citizenship: United States of America
Education: Duke University
Gender: Female
Description: American journalist
Twitter Id: Mcharlesworth7
Net Worth 2021: 1 million
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Last Modified: Jun 26 2020
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