What is the value and net salary of Ginger Zee?
Ginger Zee is an American television personality that has a net worth of $ 2.5 million and an annual salary of $ 500 thousand. Ginger achieved public fame while working as the Head of Meteorology for ABC News.
Youth
Zee was born on January 13, 1981 in Orange, California and was named Ginger Renee Zuidgeest. He was named the ginger character from the popular event “Gilligan’s Island.” Parents Dawn and Robert Zuidgeest moved their families to Michigan before Zee’s first birthday. His parents finally separated and his mother remarried Carl Craft. The marriage resulted in Zee to get two step siblings, Adrianna and Elaina.
Zee attended school at Rockford High School in Rockford, Michigan and graduated in 1999. He then went to Valparaiso University where he received a bachelor’s degree in meteorology. He had developed interest in the weather when he watched the rainy round at Lake Michigan at the age of eight years. After completing his title, he directed his gaze to become a television meteorologist, with the ultimate goal of working on “The Today Show” at the age of 30 years.
Career
After completing his university studies, Zee took a number of entry-level television meteorological work throughout the country and began to leave with Psudeonym Ginger Zee rather than his full name. He worked in Flint, Michigan, Merrillville, Indiana, Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Birmingham, Alabama. In 2006, he got a job at WMAQ in Chicago, Illinois, a station owned and operated by NBC. During his time at WMAQ from 2006 to 2011, Zee was asked to fill as a guest meteorologist in the weekend edition “The Today Show,” thus fulfilling his initial career goals.
In November 2011, Zee rose in his career by joining “Good Morning American Weekend.” The national advantage of this program helps Zee gain further experience and increase public awareness about him. He also sometimes will appear in other ABC programs such as “Nightline” and “ABC World News Tonight.”
His time as a weekend meteorologist was successful because he was asked to become the head of the meteorology for the weekly “Good Morning America” in December 2013. He also became a weather editor for ABC News after Sam Champion, a former editor, joined the weather channel.
Outside of his work in meteorology, Zee has also made a number of public appearances on various television shows in reality. In 2015, he competed in the episode “Celebrity Jeopardy!” Against Celebs Bellamy Young and Josh Gad. In March 2016, it was announced that Zee would be a contestant in the 22nd season “Dancing With the Stars.” He was paired with a professional dancer Valentin Chmerkovskiy and the couple finally reached third place.
Personal life
In August 2013, Zee was engaged to Benjamin Colonomos, a WNBC personality known as Ben Aaron. They were married in June 2014 and then had their first child together, a son named Adrian, in December 2015. In August 2017, Zee announced that she was pregnant with her second child. In February 2018, the couple welcomed their second son, Miles, to the world. The family lives in Manhattan.