Al Roker is one of the most popular and richest TV Show Host who was born on August 20, 1954 in Queens, New York State, United States. Television presenter who joined NBC’s Today Show as a weatherman in 1996. In 2009, he began co-hosting the Weather Channel show Wake Up with Al.
He has been interviewed by David Letterman on a number of occasions.
Roker worked as a weather anchor for CBS affiliate WHEN-TV (now WTVH) in Syracuse, New York from 1974 until 1976, while he was enrolled at SUNY Oswego. During his time in Oswego, he also DJ’d at the campus radio station, WNYO. Following the completion of his studies, Roker moved to Washington, D.C. and took a weathercasting position at independent station WTTG, then owned by Metromedia, remaining there for much of the next two years.
Al Roker was born in Queens, New York, the son of Isabel, of Jamaican descent, and Albert Lincoln Roker Sr., a bus driver of Bahamian descent. Roker initially wanted to be a cartoonist. He was raised Catholic (in the faith of his mother) and graduated from Xavier High School in Manhattan. He worked on several projects as a member of the school’s Cartooning & Illustration Club. He attended the State University of New York at Oswego where he received a B.A. in communications in 1976.
He married Alice Bell on December 22, 1984 and after their divorce in 1994, he married Deborah Roberts on September 16, 1995. He has a son named Nicholas and a daughter named Leila.
