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21 hours ago
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David Muir Reveals What He's Really Wearing Under the Anchor News Desk, and It's Not What You Think (Exclusive)
David Muir opened up to PEOPLE about his life on and off camera The television anchor admitted he wears jeans during his news casts "I don't try to take myself too seriously," says MuirDavid Muir is sharing some behind-the-scenes details about World News Tonight. Going on his eleventh year helming the ABC program, Muir, 51, opened up to PEOPLE about his life on and off camera — including his attire for news casts. "I generally have jeans on from the waist down," he admits. "So the first thing that we try to do is make sure my jeans aren't showing... I really don't try to take myself too seriously but I always just joke, 'Don't tell anyone about the jeans and the boots!'" The anchor also admits to double-checking the date with his floor director Michelle before going on the air. "Because the news is hitting us at lightning speed, I literally will say just before we come on, 'It's great to have you Shelly on a Tuesday night?' And she says, 'Yes, David, it's Tuesday,'" he says with a laugh. Off camera, Muir enjoys spending time in nature with his dog, Axel. "I'd say my most comfortable element is being outside, covered in mud like this weekend," he tells PEOPLE following a Memorial Day weekend trip to his hometown in upstate New York. "It was pouring rain and I loved every second of it." "I have a German short-haired pointer, and for him, the biggest event of the weekend was discovering there was a beaver who had begun to build a dam inside the little boathouse," he shares. "So I spent more time at nightfall standing on the dock with the dog who was waiting for a glimpse of this beaver coming out of the boathouse than I did doing anything else." "When you're out there on the lake, smelling the same air that you smelled when you were on your BMX bike back when you were a kid, there's something really fueling about that and connected about it. You just feel like you're home again," Muir adds. "I couldn't have been happier." ! The news anchor also addressed the many thirst edits of him on TikTok. "People will forward TikTok videos, but only because they are laughing out loud at them and making fun of me and saying, 'When did you become Daddy?' So I don't know whether that happens when you hit 50 or what, but I'll take it as a compliment, I think," he jokes. "Anyone who works with me knows that I am so uncomfortable even having to put on the tux. So the fact that I survive those events is still a surprise to me without looking like a total nerd." Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Muir recently reported live from Vatican City as Cardinal Robert Prevost became the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church. Among his many accomplishments, the journalist helped set an all-time record of $9 million in donations raised for the World Food Program through his reporting on climate change from South Sudan and Madagascar. He was also named to the 2025 Time 100 list, honored with a tribute by his friend and mentor Diane Sawyer. Read the original article on People
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4 days ago
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'Facts Matter': Lester Holt Signs Off As ‘NBC Nightly News' Anchor
'It has been an honor to lead this program and an honor to be welcomed into your homes,' Lester Holt signed off in his final time as anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News this evening. 'I'm so grateful for your trust around here. Facts matter, words matter, journalism matters, and you matter.' In a news packed show leading with tornados in the South, Elon Musk's DOGE exit and drug use reports, Sean 'Diddy' Combs sex-trafficking trial, wildfires in Canada, and Taylor Swift finally buying back her music, Holt's departure was one of the biggest stories of all More from Deadline Trump Sued By PBS To Stop $500M Funding Cut Diddy Pardon: Donald Trump "Certainly" Would Consider Clemency For Sean Combs As Old Pal Faces Sex-Trafficking Trial & Life Behind Bars Taylor Swift Buys Back Her Music Catalog 6 Years After It Was Sold To Scooter Braun Holt, 66, announced earlier this year that he would be stepping down as anchor, after ten years in the spot. However, Holt isn't disappearing from the Comcast-owned NBC. He will remain with the network in a full-time role hosting Dateline. Today, it was that role at the news magazine series that got a shout-out from Holt. 'I'll see you on Dateline, in the meantime, please continue to take care of yourself, and each other,' he said as Nightly News staffs came on to the set to share the farewell with the anchor and offer Holt a round of applause. 'And I'll do the same,' he added as the show cut to a look-back at Holt's NBC Nightly News anchor debut in 2015 to today. (Read Holt's full goodbye below) On Monday, Tom Llamas will debut as anchor, and he also will take the title of managing editor. When he returned to NBC News in 2021, there was speculation that he would be in line to succeed Holt, as Llamas had been weekend anchor on ABC News' World News Tonight. In his new role, Llamas will continue anchoring the streaming newscast Top Story for NBC News Now. With clips of sit-downs with the likes of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, meeting Pope Leo XIV and showing off his impressive bass playing skills, Friday morning saw Holt feted on The Today Show. 'Class act' Holt, as Savannah Guthrie called him, told the morning show that part of leaving Nightly News had to do with him thinking lately of 'what's the back part of my career going to look like?' 'The time seemed to be right' for him to transition to a new role on-air, Holt told Today. In a vastly shifting media landscape, NBC Nightly News for the most part has been in second place to ABC's World News Tonight with David Muir. Having said that, the Peacock network has touted instances, like during the Olympics, where it has beat its rival. Although evening news audiences aren't what they once were, they are still significant for linear television and typically outperform most cable news programming. ABC's World News Tonight with David Muir at times is the most watched show of the week in all of broadcast television. In the first quarter, it averaged 8.13 million viewers, compared to 6.6 million for Nightly News and 4.59 million for CBS Evening News. In the 25-54 demo, World News Tonight averaged 1.16 million viewers, compared to 983,000 for NBC Nightly News, and 657,000 for CBS Evening News. There is a bit of a risk for networks in shifting anchors, as evening news viewership habits tend not to budge much unless there is a major change. CBS Evening News switched up its anchors earlier this year in a switch that leaned in to 60 Minutes style correspondent storytelling, with John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois succeeding Norah O'Donnell. But the newscast has been down year-to-year. As part of the NBC Nightly News transition, spots ran Friday during the show for Llamas' anchor debut on June 2. Unlike when Holt took over for the scandal plagued Brian Williams, this change of anchors has the advantage of being a smooth handover. Read Lester Holt's full NBC Nightly News farewell here: Before we go tonight, a word about me. You may recall the announcement back some months ago that I would be leaving my post here at Nightly News in order to expand my role as host of Dateline. Well, today is that day. After 10 years, this is my last Nightly News broadcast as anchor. It has been an honor to lead this program and an honor to be welcomed into your homes. I'm so grateful for your trust around here. Facts matter, words matter, journalism matters, and you matter. Over the last decade, we have shared some dark and harrowing days and nights from our country, the pandemic, mass shootings, natural disasters, each testing our resilience and our compassion. That's why I often like to leave you with something to smile about, moments that reassure and connect us. I'll miss our evenings together, and I will miss the team that puts it all together, my dear friends and my colleagues. But for now, I just want to say thank you to my incredibly supportive and patient family and all of you. NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas premieres Monday, and I wish Tom great success. I'll see you on Dateline. In the meantime, please continue to take care of yourself, and each other. And I'll do the same. Best of Deadline 'Poker Face' Season 2 Guest Stars: From Katie Holmes To Simon Hellberg 2025-26 Awards Season Calendar: Dates For Tonys, Emmys, Oscars & More Everything We Know About Netflix's 'The Thursday Murder Club' So Far
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4 days ago
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ABC's David Muir Pulls Back the Curtain on His Life Off Camera and How He Feels About His 'Daddy' Status (Exclusive)
David Muir helms the news desk of ABC's World News Tonight and has been the show's lead anchor since 2014 Though he's been on television for years, Muir is opening up to PEOPLE about the other side of his life that fans don't get to see on screen He shares details about how he spends his days and what he really thinks about his devoted online fan baseDavid Muir is more than what meets the eye. Yes, he's the most-watched news anchor in America, helming the news desk of ABC's World News Tonight since 2014. He's covered dozens of worldly events, from the killing of Osama bin Laden to reporting live from Vatican City as Cardinal Robert Prevost became the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church. He's also helped set an all-time record of $9 million in donations raised for the World Food Program through his reporting on climate change from South Sudan and Madagascar. And most recently, he was named to the 2025 Time 100 list, honored with a tribute by his friend and mentor Diane Sawyer. But despite all of his accomplishments and lengthy tenure in journalism, Muir, 51, says he's still most himself in a setting far from the newsroom. "I'd say my most comfortable element is being outside, covered in mud like this weekend," he tells PEOPLE in an interview on May 27, following his Memorial Day weekend trip to his hometown in upstate New York. "It was pouring rain and I loved every second of it." It's a side that Muir doesn't always get to show off when he's reporting the news — but one that continuously makes him feel whole and reconnected to his roots. "I have a German short-haired pointer, and for him, the biggest event of the weekend was discovering there was a beaver who had begun to build a dam inside the little boathouse," he says. "So I spent more time at nightfall standing on the dock with the dog who was waiting for a glimpse of this beaver coming out of the boathouse than I did doing anything else." "When you're out there on the lake, smelling the same air that you smelled when you were on your BMX bike back when you were a kid, there's something really fueling about that and connected about it. You just feel like you're home again," he adds. "I couldn't have been happier." Looking back on his roots, it's no surprise that Muir was destined to be where he is today, especially since he grew up idolizing anchors that came before him. "I was a nerd who felt this gravitational pull to the news, starting back when I was 12 years old," he says. "I remember being outside, playing with the rest of the kids in the neighborhood and being the only kid who would go inside when the local news came on, and then watching Peter Jennings, who I thought was sort of the James Bond of the evening news, the globetrotter." To Muir, Jennings represented an "opportunity to get out there beyond your backyard and see the world." It was an idea that Muir found enticing. "There was always this incredible pull," he says. is now available in the Apple App Store! Download it now for the most binge-worthy celeb content, exclusive video clips, astrology updates and more! After realizing he wanted to pursue journalism, Muir says he started "writing letters to the local reporters in my town." When they responded with offers for internships, he leapt at the opportunity. "I began interning, carrying all the equipment — and back then the equipment was huge and heavy — and I'd jump into the back of the cruiser and I was honestly the happiest kid," he recalls. "Most kids were looking forward to summer vacation and I couldn't wait to get into the back seat of that cruiser all over again." "All these years later, I look back on that as a defining moment in my life," he adds. "I dove headfirst and I was just lucky enough to have people around me who weren't turned off by the kid intern." After graduating from Ithaca College with a degree in journalism, Muir's career took off as he started working at local news stations in Syracuse and Boston. In 2003, he joined ABC News as an anchor of World News Now and has remained there ever since, working his way up the ranks before succeeding Sawyer on World News Tonight in September 2014. The PEOPLE Puzzler crossword is here! How quickly can you solve it? Play now! Still, Muir can't believe his fate. "It's funny because [Sawyer] would tell you, and has told me, 'I'm not your mentor. I'm your friend. I'm your colleague. We're both reporters.' And I still remember the first morning I reported to that studio in Times Square, sitting next to Diane Sawyer. And I remember looking at her and I couldn't believe she was sitting in the chair next to me." Now going on his eleventh year at World News Tonight, Muir believes audiences truly know who he is at his core — but he does have one (or two!) secrets to divulge. "I generally have jeans on from the waist down," he admits of his attire for newscasts. "So the first thing that we try to do is make sure my jeans aren't showing... I really don't try to take myself too seriously but I always just joke, 'Don't tell anyone about the jeans and the boots!'" He also admits to double-checking the date with his floor director Michelle before going on the air. "Because the news is hitting us at lightning speed, I literally will say just before we come on, 'It's great to have you Shelly on a Tuesday night?' And she says, 'Yes, David, it's Tuesday,'" he says with a laugh. When asked about his devoted fanbase — particularly those who share thirst edits on TikTok (there's even a Tumblr Page called "Gimme Gimme Muir") — Muir can't help but laugh and take it in stride. "People will forward TikTok videos, but only because they are laughing out loud at them and making fun of me and saying, 'When did you become Daddy?' So I don't know whether that happens when you hit 50 or what, but I'll take it as a compliment, I think," he jokes. "Anyone who works with me knows that I am so uncomfortable even having to put on the tux. So the fact that I survive those events is still a surprise to me without looking like a total nerd." "So maybe it's lost on me, but I guess Daddy's better than the alternative," he adds with a laugh. Despite the online interest, he says it's actually his dog, Axel, that his fans may love more than him. "I love when people come up to me and interact because I feel like if they're going to be with me every night on the news, they do know me and they have every right to come up and sort of check in with me," he says. "But I have a dog walker who has been with me for six years now. And so I love the stories of even when the dog walker is out in public, people will say, 'Is that David Muir's dog?' It kind of puts it all in perspective. The dog is always the most important." "I think [he's] more [famous]," he says of his pup's fame. "He deserves to be. And he has no idea which makes it even more special." Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. With so many boxes checked off in his life, what's next for Muir? He has one simple answer. "I think it's really important to continue to try being better," he says. "The moment you stop learning, the moment you're no longer curious, the moment you don't believe you can be better than you were a night ago or a week ago, is probably a time to sort of check yourself." "I still feel like I'm that kid racing into that local newsroom all those years ago," he continues. "I love this job. I love the people that I interview and get to meet, and I think that journalism is more important than ever." World News Tonight with David Muir airs weeknights at 6:30 p.m. ET on ABC. Read the original article on People
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27-05-2025
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Ken Dilanian To Serve As MSNBC's Justice Correspondent And Erielle Reshef To Join Network As National Correspondent
Ken Dilanian will be part of the MSNBC team as the network prepares for its spinoff from Comcast, while Erielle Reshef will join as national correspondent and fill-in anchor. MSNBC President Rebecca Kutler announced the latest staffing this morning. More from Deadline NPR And Colorado Public Radio Stations Sue Donald Trump Over Executive Order To Cease Federal Funding Donald Trump Posts All-Caps Memorial Day Message Attacking "USA Hating Judges" And "Scum" Who Are "Trying To Destroy Our Country" Donald Trump Threatens New Tariffs On Apple And The European Union Dilanian has been NBC News justice and intelligence correspondent since 2023, primarily reporting on the Justice Department. He's covered justice and national security issues for the past nine years, and has recently broken stories including one on the work habits of FBI director Kash Patel and another on the exodus of lawyers in the DOJ's Civil Rights Division. Before joining NBC News, he covered the intelligence community for the Associated Press and the Los Angeles Times, and he previously worked at USA Today and the Philadelphia Inquirer. Reshef, who will be based in New York, has been national correspondent at ABC News since 2017. She served as fill-in anchor on Good Morning America and World News Tonight with David Muir, among other shows. She led coverage from the Dominican Republic on the disappearance of a University of Pittsburgh student, and reported from Pittsburgh on the Tree Of Life Synagogue massacre. She reported from the UK on the terror attacks on the London Bridge and the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester. She previously was an anchor at KOCO 5 News in Oklahoma City, her hometown. The network will be spun off later this year along with other cable networks into a new company called Versant. Scott Matthews was hired as MSNBC's senior vice president of newsgathering, tasked with building a news division as NBC News no longer will be a sister network. Versant will focus on four market segments, including political news and opinion, business news and personal finance, golf and sports, and genre entertainment. Best of Deadline 'Poker Face' Season 2 Guest Stars: From Katie Holmes To Simon Hellberg Everything We Know About Amazon's 'Verity' Movie So Far Everything We Know About 'The Testaments,' Sequel Series To 'The Handmaid's Tale' So Far
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19-05-2025
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David Muir surprises Disney CEO Bob Iger while at Ithaca College commencement
ITHACA, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — It's graduation season, and Ithaca College's Commencement was filled with a surprise. Former Chief Executive Officer at ABC, current The Walt Disney Company CEO, and 1973 Ithaca Alum Bob Iger was welcomed at graduation to receive a Doctor of Letters. What everyone else didn't know was who would be presenting it — another Ithaca graduate, and Syracuse native, David Muir, of ABC's 'World News Tonight' and '20/20.' The 'tightly held surprise,' as the college describes it, drew much applause from the audience. 'My visit here today is driven by two things,' said Muir at the May 18 ceremony. 'Obviously the energy of all of you in this room, your families who love you and have helped you get to this moment. And I'm here obviously for my friend and mentor, fellow Ithaca College alum Bob Iger. Iger thanked his 'dear friend and colleague' for helping make the day even more special, describing it as a full-circle moment. Photos courtesy of Simon Wheeler Photography Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
