June Holt is the mother of Lester Holt Jr, and the wife of Lester Holt Sr. Lester Don Holt Jr. is an American journalist and news anchor for NBC Nightly News and Dateline NBC during the weekdays.
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Background
June was born to Jamaican parents, and she gave birth to Lester Holt on March 8, 1959, on Hamilton Air Force Base, Marin County, California. June's parents were born in the Caribbean island of Jamaica. June's father, Canute DeRozario, was one of 14 children of an Indo-Jamaican father from Calcutta, India, and a white Jamaican mother from England. Her mother, May, was born in Jamaica but was raised in Harlem, New York.
Son's Career
As a TV newsperson, Lester Holt started when Holt was a teenager and got a television job as a reporter in New York City in 1981. Afterward, he started to work for WBBM for over 14 years, and he started to work at NBC in the year 2000 when he became their reporter.
In few years, he got the job on the shows like Dateline, Lester Holt Live, and MSNBC. He started to anchor the NBC Nightly News at the weekend of 2007. In the year 2015, he got the place of Brian Williams when he was working as a weekday anchor of NBC Nightly News, and this makes him the first lead anchor of the broadcast network for the nightly newscast, which is an African-American. He is also an actor who appears as a TV journalist at Primal Fear and The Fugitive.
Lester Holt was born in 1959 in the city of San Francisco. He is known as the leading television news anchor in the night. The father was in the US Air force, and while growing up, the family had to move a lot. June Holt, his mother, was working as a regional planner. Holt started to be interested in broadcasting when he was still too young, and he was making announcements on the public address system while in high school and was working on the radio when he was still in college. He attended California State University, but he dropped out.
From his biography, Lester Holt is a registered Republican, and he was the first black to be a presidential debate moderator since 1992. He was the one to moderate Trump and Clinton debate. Lester is not known to talk too much about his race, and he only says that everyone is aware that he is black and he is the person that June Holt and Lester Holt had raised, and there is no need to apologize about it.
However, he is not the person to pull a race card to get what he wants. When it comes to how he asks questions, he says that he uses professionalism and fairness, and Holt does not want anyone to label him as a black guy. Lester Holt got married in the year 1982. He is a husband to Carol, and the two have two children Cameron and Stefan. His yearly salary is 1.5 million, and his net worth is 10 million dollars. In his spare time, Lester Holt plays the bass guitar. He is a religious person, and he attends Manhattan Church of Christ in New York. It is not known where his wedding took place. His son Stefan is also an anchor.
Last Modified: Aug 16, 2021
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