Ashleigh Banfield : Personal Life
Ashleigh is the native of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. As a child, she was named as Ashleigh Dennistoun Banfield. Ashleigh attended Balmoral Hall School and graduated from there in the year 1985. Later, she went on to join the Queen’s University and in 1988, she got graduated from there with a Bachelor’s of Arts degree in political science and French. She also attended the University of the British Columbia.
She then continued the language education in the year 1992 in Advanced French Studies Program. Later in 2009, she received Journalism Law School Fellowship from the Loyola Law School located in California.
Ashleigh Banfield : Professional Life
At the beginning of her career, Banfield started working in the year 1988 at the CJBN-TV located in Kenora, Ontario. Later that year, she joined CKY-TV in the Winnipeg. She then moved to CFRN-TV in Edmonton for anchoring the weekend news. She remained there form 1989 till 1992.
She was then hired by the CICT-TV in 1992 and there, she began to work as a producer until the next year. After that, she began to serve as a news anchor as well as a business correspondent from 1993 till 1995. While she was at the CICT-TV, she also worked as a freelance Associate Producer for the World News Tonight that airs on ABC. In addition to that, she has also worked for KDFW-TV located in Dallas where she won an Emmy Award.
Later in early 2000, Ashleigh moved to the MSNBC. She joined the CNN in the year 2011 as a co-anchor of the network’s morning show called Early Start. Currently, she is working as the hosts of the legal news program called Legal View with Ashleigh Banfield
Ashleigh Banfield : Net Worth and Salary
Banfield is a married woman. She got married to Howard Gould who is a real estate financier and he has also founded Carbon Credit Trading Company Equator Environmental. The couple met each other in the year 2002 and got wed in the wooden yacht at Royal Lake of The Woods Yacht Club in Canada. They got divorced after few year and recently Banfield married boyfriend Chris Haynor.
They have two sons together. Their first son named Fischer Gould was born in 2005 and second son named Ridley Banfield Gould was born in the year 2007.
Apart from that, Her net worth and salary are estimated $3 million. Banfield has won the two Iris Awards in the year 1994 which is really appreciable in categories of the Best News Documentary and the Best of Festival.
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Ashleigh Banfield : Social Media
Ashleigh was also a backup singer for a band called The Rusty River Rafters as well as a member of the bar band. On 24th October 2008, she became the naturalized U. S. Citizen. She has interviewed many high personalities such as Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres and Ehud Barack, Yasser Arafat, Iraqi deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz, Hezbollah Leader Hassan Nasrallah, Laura Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Martha Stewart, Hillary Clinton, Sarah Jessica Parker, Hugh Grant, and many more.
She is now at the age of 46 but she still managed to look beautiful and hot. She is also active on social networking sites and to know more about her, we can also follow her on her Twitter account and Facebook.
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