Chris Cuomo Trivia | 61 facts about the journalist

Chris Cuomo is an American television journalist who was fired from CNN for role in fighting brother’s sexual harassment scandal.

Let’s dive into some trivia and facts about his life and career thus far.

1. His full name is Christopher Charles Cuomo
2. He was born August 9, 1970
3. Charles Cuomo is an American television journalist
4. He is best known as the former presenter of Cuomo Prime Time
5. It was a weeknight news analysis show on CNN
6. He has previously been the ABC News chief law and justice correspondent and the co-anchor for ABC’s 20/20
7. Subsequently, he was one of two co-anchors of the weekday edition of New Day, a three-hour morning news show, until May 2018
8. Cuomo is the brother of Andrew Cuomo, who was the 56th Governor of New York from 2011 to 2021
9. He is also the son of Mario Cuomo, who served as the 52nd Governor of New York from 1983 until 1994
10. On November 30, 2021, Cuomo was suspended indefinitely by CNN
11. Following reports that he assisted in the defense against the sexual harassment allegations that led to Andrew Cuomo’s resignation
12. On December 4, 2021, he was fired by CNN as a result of those reports
13. Cuomo was born in the New York City borough of Queens
14. He is the youngest child of Mario Cuomo, the former governor of New York, and Matilda Cuomo (née Raffa), and the brother of Andrew Cuomo, the former Governor of New York
15. His parents were both of Italian descent
16. His paternal grandparents were from Nocera Inferiore and Tramonti in the Campania region of southern Italy
17. While his maternal grandparents were from Sicily
18. Cuomo was educated at Immaculate Conception School in Jamaica, Queens, and at The Albany Academy, a private university preparatory day school in Albany, New York
19. Followed by Yale University, where he earned an undergraduate degree, and the Fordham University School of Law
20. There he earned his Juris Doctor in 1995
21. He is a licensed attorney
22. Cuomo’s early career in journalism included appearances related to social and political issues on CNBC, MSNBC, and CNN
23. He was a correspondent and political policy analyst for Fox News and Fox Broadcast Network’s Fox Files
24. There he covered a wide range of stories focusing on controversial social issues
25. At ABC and as co-anchor of 20/20, his year-long coverage of heroin addiction revealed the extent to which it was affecting suburban families
26. His other work has included coverage of the Haiti earthquake, child custody, bullying, and homeless teens
27. Policy changes followed his undercover look at for-profit school recruiters, including an industry-wide cleanup
28. Cuomo’s tip from a BMW owner led to a recall of over 150,000 affected models
29. From September 2006 to December 2009, he was the news anchor for Good Morning America
30. He was the primary reporter on breaking news stories, both in the U.S. and around the world, including dozens of assignments in some 10 countries
31. He covered the war on terrorism, embedded on multiple occasions in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iraq
32. There his convoy was hit by an IED
33. In the U.S., he covered the Virginia Tech shooting, the 2009 Fort Hood shooting, and the Pennsylvania Amish school shootings
34. He did live broadcasts of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the Sago Mine collapse, and the Minneapolis bridge collapse in August 2007
35. He anchored morning and evening coverage
36. During his time at ABC, he had a website, “Cuomo on the Case,” as well as two weekly digital programs: The Real Deal and Focus on Faith
37. He also appeared with Father Edward Beck on ABC News Now, the network’s 24-hour digital outlet
38. In February 2013, Cuomo moved to CNN to co-host its morning show
39. He made his debut on CNN as field anchor on the February 8, 2013, episode of Piers Morgan Tonight, covering the February 2013 nor’easter
40. In March 2018, while serving as the co-anchor of CNN’s morning show New Day, it was announced that Cuomo would move to prime time to host Cuomo Prime Time
41. In October 2017, sister network HLN premiered a new documentary series hosted by the anchor, Inside with Chris Cuomo, which focused on “stories affecting real people, in real towns and cities across America”
42. In September 2018, he began hosting a two-hour weekday radio show “Let’s Get After It” on the P.O.T.U.S. channel on SiriusXM
43. In September 2021, Cuomo’s former boss Shelley Ross accused him of sexual harassment in a New York Times op-ed
44. Stopping short of asking him to be fired from CNN, she said she would “like to see him journalistically repent”
45. Cuomo admitted to the incident and apologized in a statement: “As Shelley acknowledges, our interaction was not sexual in nature. It happened 16 years ago in a public setting when she was a top executive at ABC. I apologized to her then, and I meant it”
46. Cuomo has received multiple Emmy Award nominations
47. His Good Morning America profile of the 12-year-old poet Mattie Stepanek was recognized with a News Emmy
48. Making Cuomo one of the youngest correspondents to receive a News Emmy in network news history
49. He has been awarded Polk and Peabody Awards for team coverage
50. His work has been recognized in the areas of breaking news, business news, and legal news, with the Edward R. Murrow Award for breaking news coverage
51. The 2005 Gerald Loeb Award for Television Deadline business reporting for “Money for Nothing?”
52. And the American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award for investigating juvenile justice
53. In 2001, Cuomo married Gotham magazine editor Cristina Greeven in a Roman Catholic ceremony in Southampton, New York
54. They reside in Manhattan with their three children
55. Cuomo also owns a home in Southampton
56. On August 13, 2019, in Shelter Island, New York, Cuomo threatened to throw a heckler down a flight of stairs at a bar, and chastised him with profanity-laced insults after the man called him Fredo, in reference to the fictional character from The Godfather novel and films
57. Cuomo told the man that the use of the name “Fredo” was tantamount to “the n-word” for Italian-Americans, which caused debate on Twitter about the assertion
58. Cuomo addressed the incident publicly, tweeting his appreciation to his supporters but acknowledging that he “should be better than what [he] oppose[s]”
59. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Cuomo announced on March 31, 2020 that he had been diagnosed with COVID-19
60. During his quarantine, he broadcast his usual weekday program from his home
61. Cuomo later said he had a hallucination of his dead father, former New York Governor Mario Cuomo, as a result of symptoms from the virus