Ashleigh Banfield Bio, Age, Height, Husband, Salary, Net Worth, CNN News

Ashleigh Banfield Biography

Ashleigh Banfield (Full Name: Ashleigh Dennistoun Banfield) is a preeminent Canadian-American journalist who hosts a nightly American television news program called Banfield on NewsNation. She has also served at MSNBC, where she hosted MSNBC Investigates. Moreover, Ashleigh has served at NBC News and became a host of HomePage alongside Mika Brzezinski and Gina Gaston.

Ashleigh Banfield Age

Banfield was born on 29th December 1967, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. She is 56 years old.

Ashleigh Height

Banfield stands at a height of 5 feet 10 inches tall.

Ashleigh Banfield Family

She is the daughter of Suzanne Elizabeth (Holland) who is the mother. Her father is called John Alexander Banfield. Moreover, she is a Canadian by birth and became an American citizen on October 24, 2008, by naturalization.

Ashleigh Banfield Husband

Banfield got married to her first husband Howard Gould, a real estate financier in 2004. Additionally, Howard founded the carbon credit trading company Equator Environmental. The couple had two sons and are now divorced.

She later got married to her second husband Chris Haynor on December 29, 2017. She also got married on her fiftieth birthday at the Hermitage Club ski lodge in Wilmington, Vermont. Chris Haynor and Banfield dated for three years before getting married.

Ashleigh Banfield Education

Banfield studied at Balmoral Hall School, and in 1988. She also received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and French from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. In addition, she continued her studies in French at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, British Columbia. Later, she graduated in 1992.

Ashleigh Banfield Salary

She receives an average salary of $80,325 per year.

Ashleigh Banfield Net Worth

Banfield has an estimated net worth of $ 3 million. She credits her income which is mainly attributed to her successful career as a news journalist.

Ashleigh Ashleigh Career

She also started working at CourtTV in 2005 as the co-host of a show titled Banfield & Ford: Courtside. In 2012, she joined CNN. She began working at CNN as a co-anchor of a show named Early Start. Banfield has also worked as a host of shows like ‘Legal View with Ashleigh Banfield’.

She also worked as a host of shows like ‘Legal View with Ashleigh Banfield and ‘Early Start’ on CNN. She also served as a freelance associate producer for World News Tonight on ABC network.

She started her television career in 1988 at CJBN-TV in Kenora, Ontario, and at CKY-TV in Winnipeg later that year. Between 1989 and 1992, Banfield anchored the weekend news for CFRN-TV in Edmonton. In addition, Ashleigh worked at CICT-TV in Calgary, as a producer from 1992 to 1993 and as an evening news anchor and business correspondent from 1993 to 1995.

She joined CourtTV as the co-host of the trial coverage show Banfield & Ford: Courtside weekdays from 1 to 3 PM ET with Jack Ford in 2015. Starting June 1, 2009, She also took over as host of the truTV series Open Court weekdays from 9 to 11 a.m. ET.

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