Don Lemon is an American television journalist best known for hosting CNN from 2014 until 2023.
He was born on March 1, 1966. In his early career as a journalist, Lemon hosted weekend news shows on regional television stations in Alabama and Pennsylvania.
Lemon was an NBC news journalist who covered shows including Today and NBC Nightly News.
He began working for CNN in 2006 as a journalist and went on to become well-known as the host of Don Lemon Tonight from 2014 to 2022.
Before being fired from CNN in 2023, he most recently co-hosted CNN This Morning with Kaitlan Collins and Poppy Harlow.
Lemon has also won three regional Emmy Awards, an Edward R. Murrow Award, and a national Emmy Award.
Don Lemon Father: Who is Don Lemon’s dad?
His father was a well-known lawyer who participated in a case that successfully contested Baton Rouge’s segregated public transit system. He goes by the name of Wilmon Lee Richardson.