Ben Aaron

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Ben Aaron
Born
Benjamin Aron Colonomos [1]

(1981-09-10) September 10, 1981 (age 41)
New York, US
Education Emerson College
Years active1999–present
Known forCo-host for Crazy Talk and Pickler & Ben
Spouse
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(m. 2014)​
Children2

Benjamin Aron Colonomos (born September 10, 1981) is a New York City-based media personality formerly for NBCUniversal's LXTV and WNBC's New York Live, and for the nationally syndicated Crazy Talk television series. From 2017 to 2019, he co-hosted the nationally syndicated TV talk show Pickler & Ben with country artist Kellie Pickler. [2] As of the start of 2020, he is a features reporter for the PIX11 Morning News on WPIX-TV in New York. [3]

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Early life and education

Benjamin Aron Colonomos [4] was born on September 10, 1981, [5] in New York to Janis Yudelson Salerno and Mark Colonomos of Jewish heritage. [6] [7] [8] He grew up in Piermont, New York [9] and graduated from Emerson College, in Boston, Massachusetts. [5]

Career

Aaron started his journalism career on radio in 1999 at 18 years old working for Radio Disney. [10] After a brief stint hosting a radio show in Tucson, Arizona, he moved to Los Angeles and landed an on-air television hosting job for Daybreak OC, an Orange County-based morning lifestyle/news show serving all of Los Angeles. From there he went to KSWB in San Diego continuing his work as a features reporter until WNBC in New York picked him up. He has worked for NBCUniversal at WNBC as their host of New York Live. [10] There he received three consecutive Emmy Awards for "Best Features Reporter". He was a co-host of the nationally syndicated television program, Crazy Talk as well as being a correspondent for Extra . [11] [12] In September 2017, Aaron began co-hosting Pickler & Ben , a syndicated talk show, with country star Kellie Pickler. [13] After that talk show's cancellation in summer 2019, he returned to New York, staying employed by Pickler & Ben distributor Scripps as a morning features reporter for their newly acquired New York station, WPIX-TV at the start of 2020. [3]

Personal life

In August 2013, Aaron became engaged to ABC News Chief Meteorologist Ginger Zee. [14] The couple wed on June 7, 2014. [15] Their son Adrian Benjamin Colonomos was born in December 2015. [16] in Petoskey, Michigan. [17] On August 14, 2017, Zee announced on Good Morning America that she was pregnant with the couple's second child. On February 9, 2018, she gave birth to a boy, named Miles Macklin. [16] The family lives in Rockland County, New York.

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  8. ↑ Ben Aaron Meets Amish Mary YouTube. 17 June 2013
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