Glenn Beck

@Ceo of Theblaze, Career and Childhood

Glenn Beck is an American television and radio host, political critic, author, television network producer, media celebrity, and businessman

Feb 10, 1964

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Biography

Personal Details

  • Birthday: February 10, 1964
  • Nationality: American
  • Famous: Ceo of Theblaze, College Dropouts, Yale University, Media Personalities, TV Anchors, Radio Jockeys, Writers, ESTP
  • Spouses: Tania Colonna (m. 2000), Claire Beck (m. 1983–1994)
  • Known as: Glenn Lee Beck
  • Childrens: Cheyenne Beck, Hannah Beck, Mary Beck, Raphe Beck
  • Universities:
    • Yale University
    • Sehome High School (1982)
    • Yale University

Glenn Beck born at

Everett

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Birth Place

Beck first got married to Claire in 1983 and the couple had two daughters together: Mary and Hannah. The marriage went through much turbulence and the couple got divorced in 1994 and Beck became increasingly suicidal.

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Personal Life

After joining Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), he stopped drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana—a habit of 15 years.

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Personal Life

He got married for the second time to Tania in 1999. The couple had two children together: Raphe, their adopted son, and Cheyenne. They both joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at the time of their wedding.

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Personal Life

Glenn Beck was born in Everett, Washington, to William Beck and Mary Clara. He was one of the three children born to the couple. When Beck was only 15 years old, his mother died in a drowning accident.

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Childhood & Early Life

After his mother’s death, he moved in with his father in Bellingham, Washington, and attended the Sehome High School. Since Beck was always interested in radio, he started working at KAYK in Provo, Utah, after graduating from high school.

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Childhood & Early Life

Beck was not very comfortable with his life in Utah, which is why in 1983 he moved to Washington and started working at WPGC. Over the next decade, he moved across the country, trying to be a radio personality in cities like Seattle, Louisville, Houston, etc.

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Career

In 1985, he was hired as the lead DJ for the morning-drive radio broadcast by WRKA in Kentucky; his show was called ‘Captain Beck and the A-Team’. The show was about light-hearted comments, practical jokes and impressions.

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He was recruited by Phoenix Top-40 station KOY0FM in 1987, after he got into a dispute with WRKA. He was a co-host at the ‘morning zoo’ program, and when on one occasion he took a practical joke too far, he was asked to leave the job.

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Beck and Pat Gray were hired by WKCI-FM, a Top-40 radio station in Connecticut in 1992. WKCI expressed regret after the duo ridiculed a Chinese-American caller on air, which is why Beck’s contract with them was not renewed later.

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Amidst his suicidal tendencies and alcoholism, Beck found a way to deal with the aggravated issues of his life and took a theology class at Yale University in 1996, while he was working for a New Haven area radio station.

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Career

The Hollywood Reporter named Beck on its Digital Power Fifty list in 2012.

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Awards & Achievements