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Julie Chen is acceptable to footwear disconnected different circular of Big Brother! The 53-year-old tv property has been hosting the CBS world contention since its debut successful 2000, and season 25, which volition besides watercourse connected Paramount+, premieres connected Aug, 2. During the off-season, she was a co-anchor connected The Early News from 2002 to 2010 and the moderator connected The Talk from 2010 to 2018. Her Big Brother gig, however, has brought her a legion of fans dissimilar immoderate other.
Right earlier Big Brother‘s play 25 premiere was acceptable to air, Julie took to Instagram to stock aggregate gorgeous smiling photos of herself. She wore a achromatic formal with lone 1 sleeveless conception and a multi-colored floral people arsenic she hinted astatine her excitement successful the caption. “It’s TIME #BB25 🎉🎉,” it read.
Les Moonves and Julie Chen joined successful 2004 soon aft his divorcement from his archetypal woman was finalized.
Four years into presenting the iconic series, which originated arsenic a Dutch show, Julie wed then CBS CEO Les Moonves. The mates are inactive going from spot to strength. Find retired each astir Les, below.
Les hails from Brooklyn
Born connected October 6, 1949, Les grew up successful Brooklyn, New York successful a Jewish household with 3 siblings. He graduated from Bucknell University, wherever helium took courses successful pre-med and Spanish. In 1971, helium decided to alteration lanes and dive into acting.
He tried acting astatine first, appearing successful tiny tv roles
After college, Les acceptable his sights connected play and yet graduated from the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre. He archetypal landed a tiny relation successful Barbary Coast and followed up with parts in Cannon and The Six Million Dollar Man. When helium wasn’t satisfied with being successful beforehand of the camera, helium turned his efforts to moving down the scenes.
Les got his commencement producing made-for-TV movies
In 1985, Les recovered a location astatine Lorimar Television, wherever helium was successful complaint of the company’s movies and miniseries. In 1990, helium was made the president of Lorimar, serving the station for 3 years. After Warner Bros. acquired Lorimar, Le became the President and CEO of Warner Bros. Television successful 1993.
He brought ‘Friends’ and ‘ER’ to your surviving room
Les Moonves and Julie Chen weathered the intersexual harassment accusations against him together. (Invision/AP/Shutterstock)
While helium was President and CEO of Warner Bros. Television, Les gave the greenish airy to Friends and ER, among different highly palmy programs during that era. He near Warner Bros. to judge the presumption of president of CBS Entertainment successful 1995. When helium took implicit for CBS, helium was featured connected the screen of New York magazine, being called “Mr. TV” successful a radical hug with Jennifer Aniston, Teri Hatcher and George Clooney.
Les began dating Julie portion his divorcement was inactive pending
Les joined Nancy Wiesenfeld successful 1978 and they welcomed 3 children together. In 2003, they filed for divorce, though they were already surviving apart. Around that time, Les and Julie began a romance. 13 days aft the divorcement was finalized connected December 10, 2004, Les and Julie got joined successful Acapulco. He and Julie gave commencement to their lone kid together, a lad named Charlie, successful 2009.
He stepped down from CBS amid intersexual harassment allegations
In July 2018, The New Yorker published an nonfiction by Ronan Farrow wherever six women accused him of harassment and intimidation. The pursuing September, six much women came retired to impeach him of intersexual misconduct. While helium denied each the allegations, Les stepped down arsenic CBS CEO connected September 9, 2018.
In a caller interview, Julie said she inactive stands by her man, and adjacent went into item astir wherefore she utilized her joined sanction to motion disconnected from Big Brother during a unrecorded occurrence successful 2018, soon aft helium resigned. “When his sanction was getting dragged done the mud, I thought this is the clip to marque my basal and to fto the satellite cognize who I am,” she told Deadline. “And it was a motion of enactment for my husband. I cognize him. And helium is simply a bully man.”
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