Linda Ellerbee
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Linda Ellerbee (born
Linda Jane Smith in
Bryan, Texas,
USA,
August 15,
1944) is an outspoken journalist who is most famously known for several jobs at
NBC News, including
Washington (DC) correspondent, and reporter and co-anchor of
NBC News Overnight. She has also served as a reporter for the morning television programs
The Today Show and
Good Morning America. More recently she has been hosting
Nick News, a "kid's issues" television program on
Nickelodeon.
Ellerbee had become overweight in the 1980s, and lost over 50 pounds in the mid-1990s in a highly-publicized eating regimen. She also survived breast cancer around the same time. She's still alive and is releasing a new book and is doing the mandatory book tour.