{"id":56862,"date":"2025-05-12T06:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T11:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=56862"},"modified":"2025-04-30T12:41:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T17:41:29","slug":"what-happened-to-connie-chung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/what-happened-to-connie-chung\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happened to Connie Chung?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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But first, her trajectory to the top.\u00a0 The glass ceiling Connie obliterated was thick and two-paned.\u00a0 She so embodied the American dream that thousands of Generation Y Asian girls bear her name. Not only was she a driven woman in the very real Ron Burgundy era of broadcast news, but also the daughter of Chinese immigrants.\u00a0 Connie<\/a> implies the secret of her success was simply not giving a damn about anyone\u2019s taunts.\u00a0 Walter Cronkite was a supportive influence.\u00a0 Also, shocking to no one, Bryant Gumbel is a diva.<\/p>\n

And how did she end up with a more sophisticated Jerry Springer<\/a>?\u00a0 Connie promises he\u2019s actually quite an intellectual.\u00a0 Well as it turns out, when he wasn\u2019t determining America\u2019s paternity for our amusement, Maury was a suave (and married) anchor in DC in 1969.\u00a0 She was the copy girl. When they met again in California in 1977, she was a single newswoman running in Hollywood circles\u2026.with Ryan O\u2019Neal, and one of the Eagles\u2026you get the idea.<\/p>\n

Time had passed and the tables had turned.\u00a0 Maury started getting called Mr. Chung.\u00a0 He loved her so much at the age of 56 he decided to start his second family.\u00a0 For those keeping score, Connie was 49.\u00a0 Dan Rather\u2019s final temper tantrum got her the axe in 2005.\u00a0 Serendipitously, she exchanged said red-faced fit for the analogous wails of an adopted newborn a mere two weeks later.\u00a0 When one door closes, another opens.\u00a0 She\u2019s been there ever since.\u00a0 With nothing more to prove, she has persevered in our hearts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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