Ashleigh Banfield was born on December 29, 1967 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada as Ashleigh Dennistoun Banfield. Ashleigh Banfield is a Canadian-American journalist who works for CNN and hosts the legal news program Legal View with Ashleigh Banfield. She previously hosted Early Start and the 11 a.m. hour of CNN Newsroom.
In 2009, she earned a Journalism Law School fellowship from Loyola Law School in California.
Also, she completed the Canadian Securities Course.
News anchor KDFW FOX 4, Dallas; associate producer ABC World News Tonight; weekend evening news anchor CFRN, Edmonton;
Over the course of her career, Banfield has covered breaking news from across the country and around the globe. Prior to joining ABC News, she anchored and hosted three programs on TruTV (formerly Court TV), including a daily legal news program "Banfield and Ford: Courtside;" the weekly evening show "Hollywood Heat;" and the successful prime time special series that she created and co-produced, "Disorder in the Court."
Banfield covered the terrorist attacks of September 11th for NBC News, reporting live from the World Trade Center in New York City, work which earned her Emmy Award recognition. After eight consecutive days at Ground Zero, Banfield departed for Islamabad, Pakistan to begin covering the War on Terror.
She also anchored several prime time series on MSNBC, including "A Region In Conflict" and "Ashleigh Banfield: On Location." She hosted these programs from locations around the globe, covering breaking news stories that included the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the conflict in Israel, and the abduction of Elizabeth Smart in Salt Lake City.
As a correspondent for NBC News from 2000-2004, Banfield reported for "The Today Show," "NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw," and "Dateline." As an anchor at MSNBC, she covered the crash of the Concorde on location in France, the 2000 presidential election, and the 2000 Summer Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia.
Her most noted interviews include Yasser Arafat, Israeli Prime Ministers Ehud Barak and Shimon Peres, Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, members of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, Saudi Prince Al Faisal, Laura Bush, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Martha Stewart, John McCain, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jane Fonda, Ben Stiller, Rosie O'Donnell, Donald Trump, and Hugh Grant.
Prior to joining MSNBC, Banfield served as the evening news anchor for KDFW-TV, the FOX affiliate in Dallas. While there, she received her first Emmy Award for "Best News Anchor" for her coverage on "Cadet Killers" and a Texas Associated Press Award for the series "To Serve and Survive." Prior to that, Banfield worked at Canada's CICT-TV, as a producer from 1992-93 and from 1993-95 as their evening news anchor and business correspondent. In 1994, Banfield earned two IRIS awards for the "Best News Documentary" and "Best of Festival" categories, where she chronicled the life of a homeless man.
Before, and during, her tenure at CICT-TV, Banfield freelanced as an associate producer for ABC's "World News Tonight," where she covered the 1991 Bush/Gorbachev Summit in Russia and the 1992 Clinton/Yeltsin Summit in Vancouver.
In 1988, Banfield began her career at CJBN in Kenora, Ontario, Canada as a photographer, researcher, and reporter and then later moved to Winnipeg's CKY station as a researcher/reporter for their evening news. From 1989 to 1991, she served as weekend evening news anchor at CFRN in Edmonton, Alberta.
Quotations:
"I'm not sure Americans are hesitant to do this again - to fight another war, because it looked to them like a courageous and terrific endeavor." Ashleigh Banfield
"Very few people are fortunate enough to walk through countries like Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia, and I had seen them all. I had spoken to many on the street." Ashleigh Banfield
"The hardest thing is that I never do anything the same way twice, and when I'm on the air, I'm very unscripted, and I'm very comfortable in that role. So me being scripted is not a comfortable place for me." Ashleigh Banfield
"We didn't see what happened after mortars landed, only the puff of smoke. There were horrors that were completely left out of this war. So was this journalism? Or was this coverage?" Ashleigh Banfield
"I thought they were sassy, and I tend to be a little sassy." Ashleigh Banfield
As a TV journalist she looks sexy and hot, her blond hair, styled glasses and perfect body measurements makes her goddess in front of the screen. Her body measurements are 36-27-36 which is very much perfect and every man's dream. Ashleigh looks tall with her 5.8feet height and her hot pair of legs looks smoking hot in a one piece outfit. In her many bikini photos shoot she looks an exotic TV personality with sleek legs and pretty feet. Her body looks more attractive in bikini. People who regularly follow her in her TV shows describe her as "Banging Hot".
Along with her personal life she has a great professional life, she lives with her family in a luxurious house. Her exact salary has not revealed yet but according to the sources her net worth is about $ 3 Million (Approx.). It shows how hard working she is and always looking to create something with her style and appearances. In her professional career she has never backed from any challenges and has never been fired from any companies.
Since she has been very popular in states and also in Canada she can found active in the social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook. People are following her tweets and also commenting in her status and information's. As a journalist her work is to be updated and also keep people around her updated and informed. She can be easily found in her social accounts and her other information's can be found in Wiki and IMDb.
Quotes from others about the person
“Ashleigh Banfield: Where have you been? No, I am not some fan commenting on your appearance. You were one of the most respected, most intelligent broadcast journalists around until you just, poof, disappeared.”
— Commentator on The Huffington Post, 1-17-08
She got married to the famous financer of real estate named Howard Gould; he also owned the company carbon credit trading. They have two sons: Jay Fischer Gould and Ridley Banfield Gould.
This couple had a typical movie-like love story right from their first day of meeting when Ashleigh and Howard met in a park while the strings of their dogs’ leash got entangled with each other and as if it was their fate to meet in this way. This incidence took place near Central Park of New York when both of them came to talking terms while sorting out the leash tangles and it was like a love at first site for them. Ashleigh Banfield was an anchor for MSNBC while Mr. Howard Gould was a financier of real estate from New York. It was beginning, after which they started dating each other and got married in 2004.
Ever since their affair, they had been in the news, till they finally celebrated their marriage. Their wedding was a grand event which took place on 85 ft. Yacht named Grace Anne II. The couple made sure that they had one of the best weddings with all the events planned by the couple themselves with the best arrangements, designers, and themes. Howard’s love for his wife was to this extent that even the wedding reception held in a resort where Ashleigh spent most of her childhood. Howard was the only man in Ashleigh’s life who never had a boyfriend, before she met him. Howard has always been a loyal husband. They live more like best friends and never had any divorce. Both Ashleigh and Howard complement each other as a couple and today even after a decade of their marriage, they are living together as a happy family in Connecticut, USA.
