Eva Pilgrim | |
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Born | Seoul, South Korea | August 30, 1982
Education | Airport High School, West Columbia, South Carolina The University of South Carolina University of Florida [1] |
Occupation(s) | News reporter and anchor |
Spouse | Ed Herrigon |
Children | 1 |
Family | Sherry Pilgrim |
Eva Pilgrim (born August 30, 1982) is a South Korean-born American broadcast journalist who previously co-anchored the ABC afternoon news program GMA3: What You Need to Know with DeMarco Morgan. [2] [3] In 2025, she was named as the new host of the syndicated-newsmagazine Inside Edition .
Pilgrim was born in Seoul, South Korea to a Korean mother and a Caucasian American father. She described growing up: "There weren't that many half-Asian women on television when I was a little girl. I grew up in a town where everybody looked so very different from me, so for me seeing those women on TV, it wasn't just, 'Oh, I can do that job,' but, 'Oh, women like me exist in other places than where I live.'" [4]
After attending the University of Florida, Pilgrim worked at television stations in Bluefield, West Virginia, Columbia, South Carolina, and Charlotte, North Carolina. [5] She was later an anchor/reporter at WXIN-TV in Indianapolis, Indiana, before moving on to WPVI-TV in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In January 2016, she joined ABC News. In 2023, she and DeMarco Morgan became co-anchors of GMA3: What You Need to Know .
On July 7, 2025, it was announced Pilgrim would succeed Deborah Norville as host of Inside Edition , beginning with the thirty-eighth season. [6] [7] [8]