Known from movies

Main News (2008)
as herself – Anchor

Morning Express with Robin Meade (2005)
as herself – Deputy anchor / Segue

Raising America (2013)
as Herself – Anchor (2013)

HLN News Now (2010)
as herself – Anchor



Christi Paul is an American journalist and author, who rose to prominence for being a news anchor on HLN Network during the week and CNN Network on weekends.

Early life and family

Christi Ruth Paul was born on January 1, 1969 in Bellevue, Ohio, USA, to Roger and Ann Paul. She and her brother, Danny Paul, grew up in Bellevue and remained in Ohio until they finished college. Her middle name came from her paternal and maternal grandmothers, both named Ruth. Little else is known about her childhood years except that she entered and won beauty pageants, including ‘Miss Mansfield’, ‘Miss Greater Cleveland’ in 1991-92, and third place in the ‘Miss Ohio’ competition in 1993.

Education

After graduating from a local high school in Bellevue in 1987, she graduated in 1993 with a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of Toledo; she was an intern at Entertainment Tonight at CBS. Christi was recognized as an “Outstanding Alumna” and received an honorary doctorate when she delivered a speech to the 2014-2015 graduates of the University of Toledo.

Career

After her studies and internship, she could not immediately start working for broadcasting. She did odd jobs in Cleveland, such as assisting magicians at shows, hosting car shows, and even singing at sporting events.

First steps

It wasn’t until she was offered a job as a news anchor, reporter, and photographer at WDTV, a CBS-affiliated TV station in Clarksburg, West Virginia, that she was able to use her college education. Her steady work in broadcast journalism earned her about $12,000 a year.

Later, Christi moved to Boise, Idaho to accompany her first husband, and worked as a news correspondent for KTVB. When her marriage fell apart, she accepted a job at KNXV in Phoenix, Arizona, then transferred to KTVK, a Phoenix CNN-affiliated TV station, where she became a news anchor, consumer correspondent, and weather girl.

Further success

In 2003, she joined HLN (then CNN Headline News), a CNN cable news channel whose main focus was to provide all-day live news, but later relaunched with a new programming concept adding morning shows and true crime. shows. In 2013, she joined the CNN network as a news correspondent and anchor while still working at HLN.

Reporting tragic events, such as missing children, drove her to it create the TV program, “Find Our Children”, in 2010, to spread awareness about these children and seek help from viewers in their search for them. It started as a segment on CNN’s online site, then it aired twice a week on two networks such as HLN and TruTV.

With the help of the show, they were able to locate quite a few missing children.

Christi became a popular news anchor by covering major national news events, including several presidential elections and the historic inauguration of Barack Obama in Washington DC. She was given an exclusive interview with Vice President Joe Biden in 2013, discussing domestic violence and Obamacare. She extensively covered news of terrible tragedies such as the $70 billion devastation from Hurricane Sandy, the deadliest hurricane in 2012, and the most violent mass shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut in 2012, the Orlando Pulse nightclub in 2016 , and the Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 2020.

Today, she still hosts news for HLN as one of the network’s weekday news anchors, and CNN’s “New Day” TV show as a weekend news anchor.

Private life

Christi married her second husband Peter Wurm, a chemical engineer, on June 21, 2002, at a beach resort in Kauai, Hawaii. She met him a year after filing for divorce from her previous abusive husband. She always believed in second chances in love, and now she has been married for 18 years and has three daughters. If we are to believe her Instagram posts, then her relationship is Go strong and she has a happy family. She has been constantly posting about her unending happiness to have Peter as a husband.

Previous relationship

When she was still starting her career in broadcast journalism, she met Rob Koebel, another news reporter, and dated him for a while. When Rob was hired for a job in Boise in 1996, he decided he couldn’t leave Christi in West Virginia, so he proposed to her. That time she was also offered her dream job in Cleveland, but she chose him. While planning their wedding, she had seen him lose his temper, but for which he would apologize profusely.

After their marriage, his temper escalated and the abuse began. A few years into marriage, she was ready to call it quits, but his parents intervened and underwent marriage counseling.

Posted by Christie Paul on Friday December 20, 2019

Things went well for a year, but the abuse started again. After four years, she decided to leave him for good, and was advised not to tell him until she was already far gone, as this is usually the most dangerous time in an abusive situation. In October 2000, while back in Ohio with her parents, she filed for divorce.

Charity/Advocacy

One Love Foundation

Christi is a member of the National Advisory Board for the One Love Foundation. It was erected in honor of University of Virginia lacrosse player Yeardley Love, who was beaten to death in her apartment in 2010 by her boyfriend, also a UV men’s lacrosse player.

The foundation spreads awareness about abuse and provides support to the victims.

Girl Talk Inc.

She is a supporter of Girl Talk Inc., a peer-to-peer mentoring organization, in which high school students would help and teach high school students how to deal with bullying in school and develop self-confidence.

Healthcare for children

Volunteering as a Baby Buddy is a weekly thing for Christi, if she can find some time in her busy schedule. She hugs babies and supports families where their babies are confined to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), at the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.

Interesting facts

1. She received the illustrious Hope Award from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children in 2012 for her continued support in spreading awareness about missing children through her TV show, “Find Our Children.”
2. In 2012, she wrote a book, ‘Love Isn’t Supposed to Hurt’, in which she shared the emotional and verbal abuse she experienced from her former husband. She never mentioned his name and mentioned him in the book Justin. It was immediately included in Amazon’s Top 20 Books when it was published.
3. Her former husband had been arrested for urinating in front of an Apple Store; Rob was so drunk that he even resisted arrest. He later said it was caused by the release of his ex-wife’s book because although his name was not mentioned, all of their colleagues knew who it was.
4. Christi recorded two songs entitled “Wake Up In It” and “Free”, which can be downloaded from iTunes. Both songs were related to her ordeal through abuse and were released to accompany her book.
5. Singing has always been an outlet for Christi. She sang national anthems at sporting events, including the Cleveland Cavaliers Games, and shared the stage with other popular singers, including David Foster and Richard Marx.

We’re here for you this morning @MorningExp @HLNTV and Lea smiles at you through her 😷
How are you today? Everyone okay? pic.twitter.com/SoxerWCdtO

— Christi Paul (@Christi_Paul) April 7, 2020

Appearance

She is 1.60 m tall and weighs about 54 kg. She is white with blond hair and blue eyes.

Net value

authoritative sources estimates Christi’s net worth as of June 2020 to be around $1.5 million, mostly from her salaries as a news correspondent for several years and her current job as a TV news anchor on HLN and CNN shows. She earns about $90,000 in a year on average.

General information

First and last name	Christie Paul
Profession	Journalist, photographer, author, talk show host, newsreader
Education	University of Toledo
Nationality	American

Family

Performance

TV shows

Dr. Drew On Call, Morning Express with Robin Meade, New Day, CNN Newsroom

Links to social profiles

Facts

#	Fact
1	Fan of the NFL’s Cleveland Browns.
2	Gave birth to her third daughter on September 2, 2009.
3	Mother of three daughters.
4	Serves on the board of Safe Kids Georgia and is an ambassador for the Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation. Recently named “Outstanding Alumna” by the University of Toledo Department of Communications.
5	Performed the national anthem for the Atlanta Braves vs. Florida Marlins on Wednesday, June 6, 2007.
6	Reporter and weekday news anchor for HLN. Joined CNN in April 2003 as a weekend anchor.
7	Former Miss Mansfield (Ohio); Miss Greater Cleveland, 1991-1992; was third runner-up of Miss Ohio 1993.
8	Holds a BA in broadcast journalism from the University of Toledo in Ohio.
9	Previously worked for KTVK, affiliate of CNN in Phoenix, Arizona, where she was a presenter and consumer reporter, and KNXV, affiliate of ABC, in Phoenix as a news anchor and weather reader. She was also an anchor, reporter and producer for NBC affiliate KTVB in Boise, Idaho. Got her start in journalism in Clarksburg, West Virginia, as a news anchor, editor, photographer, and reporter at WDTV.

Movies

Yourself

Title	Year	Status	Character
New day	2015-2016	TV serials	Herself – Host / Herself – Anchor
Lifestyle magazine	2013	Documentary about the TV series	herself
Dr. Drew on call	2013	TV serials	Himself – co-host
raising America	2013	TV serials	Herself – Anchor (2013)
HLN News now	2010	TV serials	Self – Anchor
Head news	2008	TV serials	Self – Anchor
Morning Express with Robin Meade	2005	TV serials	Himself – Substitute Anchor/Segue

Source: IMDb, Wikipedia