Shawn Killinger is an American television anchor, reporter, and newscaster who works as a national show host for QVC, the e-commerce and television shopping behemoth. She has been promoting products on QVC since 2007, and she also has her own blog on their website. She has been on a number of weekly segments, promoting a wide range of products in the fashion, cosmetics, and accessories categories. She is recognized for her spontaneity and is said to be able to shoot for three to four hours without using a teleprompter. She is defined as a warrior shopper and hope spreader on her QVC profile page. She goes into greater depth about her achievements on Instagram: a QVC TV personality, a former ‘Apprentice,’ a word acrobat, a travel savant, a brilliant over-analyzer, a spiritual gangster, and a crazy-cool adoptive mommy She worked as a set assistant for the ‘CBS Evening News,’ ‘Late Show with David Letterman,’ and CBS’ ’60 Minutes’ prior to her prominence on ‘The Apprentice: Martha Stewart’ and QVC. She has been a ‘Wish Grantor’ with the ‘Make-A-Wish Foundation’ since 2008, fulfilling the wishes of children with life-threatening illnesses, and she considers it the most important thing in her life.
The Ascension to Stardom
Shawn Killinger went to New York City in 1997 after finishing her college studies and was one of the few applicants chosen for the famous CBS Page Program. She worked as a set assistant for Dan Rather on the ‘CBS Evening News’ for two years, and afterwards assisted with seating audience members at the ‘Late Show with David Letterman.’ She rose through the ranks of the CBS News ‘Foreign Desk’ program’s Assistant Producer.
She subsequently decided to work as an anchor-reporter in front of the camera, and she worked for Fox and CBS stations in Florida and New York. She worked as a local and network newscaster for a decade before becoming the morning anchor and entertainment show for an affiliate in Orlando, Florida. She was a cast member on Martha Stewart’s version of ‘Apprentice,’ where she was fired for the third time because the host didn’t like her tagline, ‘Fake it till you make it,’ which later became a craze in pop culture.
She later teamed up with Martha Stewart to promote her QVC clothing business. She joined QVC as a host in 2007 and has been entertaining millions of viewers ever since, resulting in millions of dollars in sales for the firm.
Scandals & Controversies
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On June 27, 2016, a petition was sent to the consumer advocacy website ‘Pissed Consumer,’ asking for the ‘egomaniacal’ ‘Shawnie Sue’ character to be removed as the show’s host. Even while not everyone agreed with the initial poster, the petition received 24k views and nearly 200 comments.
Personal Experiences of Shawn Killinger
Shawn Elizabeth Killinger was born in Detroit, Michigan, on November 2, 1979. She used to dance and act in the community theater when she was a kid. Her family moved to Mexico City when she was 11 years old because of her father’s job. During her four years there, she learned fluent in Spanish and enrolled in the International American School Foundation. She later earned a marketing degree from Penn State University in State College. She matriculated at the International Labor Organization (ILO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland, as a “interested wanderlust traveler.”
She is married to Joe Carettta, a consultant she met on a dating service. She is usually very candid with her readers about her life and experiences, including the couple’s inability to have a child. However, after she failed to clarify the cause for her protracted absence from her shows in 2014, speculations began to circulate. She eventually revealed her tragic miscarriage while five months pregnant with her daughter in a moving Facebook post. Joe’s former marriage gave her two stepsons, and the pair adopted a baby daughter named Jagger Jude in June 2017.
Killinger, who claims on her Facebook profile that domestic problems aren’t her strong point, must have had a difficult time as a new mother, as she took a long time to share her joy with her fans, claiming that she hadn’t washed in three days and reeked of baby detergent.
Estimated Net Worth
Shawn Killinger’s net worth is believed to be $3 million. Her earnings are primarily derived from her work as a television anchor, newscaster, and host, which she has done for several years.