Shepherd Smith: marriage, boyfriend, career, and interesting quotes!

Updated On March 18, 2024 | Published By: shahid | In Career , Relationship , Sexuality

Shepherd Smith is an American broadcaster who worked for Fox News and CNBC. He left CNBC in November 2022. Shepherd came out as gay in 2017 and is now dating a man. Read on to learn about his relationship history and interesting quotes.

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Shepherd Smith and his career

Shepherd Smith started his career with local TV in Florida. He was placed in Miami and Orlando. Shepherd started working for Fox News in 1996 and has been part of a lot of shows on the channel. He has reported on several important and breaking news such as the death of Lady Diana, the impeachment of Bill Clinton, the death of Michael Jackson, Hurricane Katrina, etc.

Shepherd’s show, The Fox Report with Shepard Smith was in the top three in 2003. He hosted Shepherd Smith’s reporting show. On 11 October 2019, he announced that him leaving Fox News. He was upset with the lies spread intentionally on the channel’s shows.

Shepherd joined CNBC in July 2020. He was doing The News with Shepard Smith. But this show was canceled in November 2022 and led to the exit of Shepherd from CNBC.

Is Shepherd gay?

Shepherd had married his classmate at the University of Mississippi, Virginia Donald in 1987. But after six years of togetherness, the two split in 1993. They had no children together.

There was no news about his personal life. But he was secretly dating Giovanni Graziano, an American production assistant since 2012. And in 2017, Shepherd came out as gay.

It was when he was talking about Roger Ailes, Fox News Chief, whom people accused of sexual harassment of female employees, using homophobic and racist slurs. Shepherd said:

“He treated me with respect, just respect,”

When asked whether Roger bullied him about his sexuality, Shepherd said:

“That’s not true. He was as nice as he could be to me. I loved him like a father,”

Shepherd’s name was repeatedly in the Power 50 list of Out Magazine. Shepherd’s boyfriend is 23 years younger to him. Regarding their relationship, Shepherd had said:

‘We live a very normal life and go to dinner and go to games and see his family and see my family.’

Shepherd’s interesting quotes

Here are some of his interesting quotes on air:

“When I hear people say that Fox News is right-wing, I know that’s not true, because I’m the one doing the news. It’s my show, and there’s no place for opinion on my show. It’s uninteresting to me.”
“Oh, I don’t talk about God.”
“I love mass transportation.”
“I’m not a liberal elite who was educated in the northeast, for example, I’m just a kid from Mississippi.”

“I come from a place where we feel like we’re not represented in the national media.”
“Opine all you like, but if you’re going to opine, begin with the truth and go from there. It’s that deviation from that that has caused me the greatest concern.”
“We don’t communicate in full sentences anyway. We don’t need all those words.”
“In New York, I like it when you can get bagels at 3 in the morning.”
“I’ve always been fascinated by weather.”
“Interviewing politicians and movie stars, you know what you’ll get. I like the people-stories better.”
“I take the subway to work.”
“I think there’s a certain sense of grounding that comes from not being a rich kid from a media-elite school.”
“I enjoy reporting on triumph over tragedy.”

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