Gretchen Carlson

Gretchen Elizabeth Carlson ( born June 21, 1966 in Anoka, Minnesota) is an American television presenter and former Miss America.

Life and work

Carlson, who is of Swedish descent, grew up in Minnesota. She attended Anoka High School, which she left with a degree in 1984. First she attracted public attention as a participant of beauty contest Miss Minnesota, they could decide for themselves. Following this success, she was elected in 1989 to Miss America. 1990 acquired Carlson, who had also temporarily studying at the UK's University of Oxford, a degree in the professional organization theory at Stanford University. In the 1990s she married sports agent Casey Close.

In 2000, Carlson was given a job as a correspondent at CBS News. In 2002 she was there co-host of the Saturday Early Show (along with Russ Mitchell). Since September 2006, Carlson is the co-host of the show Fox & Friends in the U.S. cable channel Fox News program. The program that she presents along with Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade, is currently the most successful pro rata basis information broadcast in the American breakfast television. In this capacity, Carlson has that pronounced agrees with the majority of the presenters of Fox News conservative viewpoints, repeatedly attracted criticism. In particular, a tendentious moderation style she is often accused to put in a bad light in favor of the Republican Party and the desire "left" politicians: They characterized, for example, once the Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy because of his opposition to the Iraq war in an interview with the Bush adviser Dan Bartlett as an "enemy of the United States," which would be " on the home front " against the United States ( " hostile enemy [ of the United States] [ ... ] right here on the home front" ).