Drew Grant is an American journalist, former writer and editor of The New York Observer, founder of Drew Grant Media, and co-host of “Movie Trivia Schmoedown”. She is also known as the ex-wife of Emmy-winning reporter and MSNBC’s anchor, Ari Melber.

Early life

Drew Grant was born in Park Slope, New York City, USA, on May 25, 1984. She graduated from Oberlin College in 2006 with a Bachelor of Arts. There is no information about her family, parents or siblings.

Early career

After graduation, she started working at 236.com, a comedy web portal of “Huffington Post”, as an editorial assistant for the Pop Culture section.

She left the job to join “Jossip Initiatives”, a company owned by David Hauslaib and founded in 2003. In addition to Jossip.com, the company also owned portals such as queerty.com and stereohyped.com. She worked for this company for a year and a half.

She then switched to Nerve.com, an online magazine about relationships and sex. The portal went offline in 2008 and Grant had been working there for less than a year. Then she joined another website dedicated to pop culture, Crushable.com. All of these jobs honed her skills as a writer and gained her experience as a pop culture and celebrity journalist.

Emerging career

Her previous experience at various web portals and her rising reputation as a writer gave her the opportunity to work at “Media Group”, the famous conglomerate that owns several media companies – the subsidiaries range from television to internet and radio. The opportunity this presented to Drew would help her pave her way as a successful journalist.

Her reputation as a good writer continued to rise and in 2011 Drew was offered her dream job as Arts & Entertainment Editor for the prestigious “The New York Observer”, owned by Jared Kushner. The prominent magazine focuses on diverse topics related to New York such as politics, culture and real estate. Grant immediately accepted this job offer.

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First published in 1987, “The New York Observer” is known as the newspaper in which “Sex and The City” creator Candace Bushnell published her columns. Today, “The New York Observer” has stopped publishing print publications and has become “Observer” since 2016, an online web portal based on the same topics as the original newspaper.

Drew Grant’s last article published for “Observer” was “We Have to Go Back to the Island: Rewatching ‘Lost’, Season 1, Part 1”, on January 6, 2017. It is unknown why she quit working on the newspaper. Grant’s articles often focused on TV shows and pop culture in general, and can still be found today the archive of the website.

During Drew’s time there, she also founded a website called tvDownload, a blog where she wrote reviews of TV shows and series, but she stopped publishing articles on this site in 2015.

After quitting her job at the “Observer”, Grant joined “RealClearLife” as a writer, today called InsideHook.com, a portal dedicated to lifestyle news and luxury. After leaving this job, she joined Ranker in 2018 also as a writer. This website is dedicated to entertainment, sports, celebrities, and others, often displaying lists and polls for readers to participate in and voice their opinions on various topics.

internet projects

Today, Drew is one of the co-hosts of “Movie Trivia Schmoedown”, a network dedicated to movie trivia, where participants compete against each other to test their movie knowledge. Drew has also created a YouTube channel by the name VIDEO DRIVE, to which she shares video reactions. It is unknown if she continues to write on a portal web or magazine.

Private life

Marriage and Divorce: 2013 – 2017.

Drew Grant met Ari Melber in 2010 at a party, started dating in 2011, and in 2013, Melber proposed to Grant. They got married that year 2013 but their marriage only lasted till 2017 when they filed for divorce.

In 2013, New York Times published an article about the importance of personal relationships and how technology disrupts that. In this article, Ari Melber made a short guest comment about how he was improving his life and relationship with Drew Grant, his fiancé at the moment, by separating from technology. “No screens after 11 p.m.,” he says of the couple’s agreement to stop using a mobile device after a certain hour. He also noted, “We noticed that the evenings were more relaxed and we slept better,” in reference to the improvement in sleep hours for him and Drew.

Ari Melber and his wife Drew Grant. They divorced in 2017.

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In addition to being a journalist and broadcaster for MSNBC, Ari Melber is also an attorney and legal analyst for NBC News. His show “The Beat with Ari Melber”, is one of the most watched shows with an audience of nearly two million, becoming the most watched MSNBC show ever in the 6:00 pm time slot.

Ari Melber has not been married since his divorce.

New Friend – 2017

After her divorce from Ari Melber, Drew began dating Richard Alexander. They often posted pictures of themselves together on Instagram, but as of 2020 it is unknown if they are still together. Drew has not been married since her divorce.

Net value

Drew Grant’s net worth as of 2020 is estimated to be over $500,000, as a result of her extensive work as a journalist and writer. We hope that she can continue to increase her fortune with her new projects.

Physical Characteristics

Drew Grant has a slim build, fair skin, brown eyes, and her ethnicity is white. Her weight and stature is unknown. She has natural brown hair, which she used to style at shoulder length, but nowadays she has tried a different look and cut her hair very short and styled it with curls. She keeps her natural hair color.

Interesting facts

• Drew was born in New York, worked there all her life and still lives in the city.
• Drew met several celebrities during her time as “Observer” editor. One of them was the famous actor Tom Hanks.
• Grant shared several photos of a little girl named Angie on instagram, and she’s said it’s her “daughter,” even though Angie’s real mother is Elise Garrido. Even then, Drew also considers Angie to be her daughter.
• Grant is a fan of movies and TV shows, a fact that helped her create content for “Observer” when she worked there.