Julie Moran Biography

Fast Facts

• Won America's Junior Miss beauty pageant in 1980 while she was a college student
• Graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Georgia with a degree in Broadcast Journalism
• Started out as an intern at WCTV-TV in Tallahassee, Florida, where she reported on football games
• Quote: "(On hosting "Wide World of Sports"): "Some people used to think I didn't know anything because of my looks․ Very quickly that notion was dispelled․""
• Joined "Entertainment Tonight" in New York in 1994 and moved to their Los Angeles headquarters one year later
• Was the anchor of ABC's "Wide World of Sports," where she was the show's first female host
• Best known as the weekend anchor and senior correspondent of "Entertainment Tonight․"
• Co-hosted the Academy Awards pre-show for ABC in 2001
• While at "Entertainment Television" she hosted the weekly segment "ET One to One with Julie Moran," in which she interviewed celebrities and visited film sets