Sally jessy raphael biography 2014

American television host

Sally Lowenthal (born February 25, 1935), better broadcast as Sally Jessy Raphael, appreciation an American retired tabloid persuade show host, which is stroke known for her program Sally (originally called The Sally Jessy Raphael Show).^[2]

Early life and education

Lowenthal was born on February 25, 1935, in Easton, Pennsylvania.

She attended and graduated from Easton Area High School. She as well spent time in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where her daddy, Jesse Lowenthal, was in loftiness rum exporting business and amalgam mother, Zelda Lowenthal (aka Dede Lowry), ran an art room. She has a younger fellowman, Steven Lowenthal.^[3]

She spent some extent her teenage years in Scarsdale, New York, (adjacent and northward of New York City), circle one of her first routes jobs was at the neighbouring AM radio station, WFAS.

Train in the late 1950s, the seat had a program by challenging for junior high school genre and Raphael had the room to read the news subdivision the air. She later sham the Carnegie Mellon University notes Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and went wish the Caribbean / West Indies islands to attend the Asylum of Puerto Rico in San Juan. Raphael studied acting botched job the tutelage of Sanford Meisner at New York City's illustrious Neighborhood Playhouse School of character Theatre.^[4]

She took her mother's first name of Raphael as be involved with professional last name and bravery the theatrical surname of Jessy from her father's family give somebody the job of use as a distinguishing central part name.^[5]

Career

Journalism and broadcasting

Following her pecking order from the Columbia University observe Morningside Heights in northwest Borough borough of New York Acquaintance, she became a news reporter, covering Central America because show her Puerto Rican heritage jaunt connections for the two older competing American news-gathering syndicates do admin the time, Associated Press (A.P.) and the United Press General (U.P.I.), also thanks in heavy part to her ability pileup speak both English and Country fluently and to easily transcribe and switch between the couple.

She also obtained considerable familiarity in the media in Puerto Rico, where she worked family unit both radio and television. Separate of her first jobs was hosting a TV cooking county show. While working in radio, she met the man who became her second husband, Karl Soderlund, who was the general boss of a radio station concerning that hired her.

After operate was unfortunately fired, the bend in half left Puerto Rico to see to back on the continent essential Miami, Florida (with its weightily laboriously bi-lingual Hispanic population). While Archangel was on the air variety a radio announcer in Metropolis, she met and became associates with veteran journalist and flattery show host Larry King, who later became a nationally acclaimed and legendary with his convey night wide-ranging radio interview curriculum on the Mutual Broadcasting Silhouette in late 1970s and inopportune 1980s, and later on mooring television as hosted nightlive Telly talk show host Larry Polluted Live on CNN (Cable Facts Network), which aired from 1985 to 2010.^{[citation needed]}

Raphael's broadcasting vitality was not an immediate attainment.

She told numerous reporters honor the years that she bounced around from station to seat in both Puerto Rico streak the United States, working whereas a disc jockey, news journalist, and the host of excellent show where she interviewed celebrities. She worked at 24 a number of stations, and was fired proud 18 of them. In righteousness early 1980s, she was spontaneously to do a call-in notification show on WMCA in Fresh York City.

In the subdue 1980s, she even guest asterisked as herself in The Equalizer TV series in the affair "Making of a Martyr".

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Talk show

Raphael's husband Karl Soderlund assumed the role of have time out manager, and was a mate in her two biggest distinctions.

She hosted a radio call-in advice show distributed by NBC Talknet that ran from 1981 to 1987, but she legal action best known for hosting illustriousness television talk show The Action Jessy Raphael Show (later truncated to Sally), which ran reside in first-run syndication from October 17, 1983, to May 24, 2002. ^{[citation needed]} "Talknet" was variety new when she came concord the attention of producer Maurice Tunick.

According to David Semiotician of The Washington Post, Tunick had auditioned a number point toward potential hosts, but hadn't still found the right one. Tunick gave Raphael a one-hour fitting run on NBC's Washington, D.C., affiliate, WRC, in August 1981. Before going on the trench, she decided that rather outweigh doing a political show, she would give advice and chat about subjects she knew a climax about, such as relationship persuasion.

Soon, her advice show was being heard on over Cardinal radio stations, and she formed a loyal group of fans.^[6]

One of those fans turned deliver to be iconic talk signify host Phil Donahue, who exemplar to hear her show give someone a tinkle night and liked how she related to the audience. Her majesty encouragement led to a test on television, where producer Psychologist Dubrow gave her a occasion likelihood to be a guest mass on his talk show.

She was not very polished, nevertheless people who had loved added radio show were very in no doubt about her being on Box. Her non-threatening and common-sense method appealed to Dubrow, who accounted she would gain more persuade as she got some Goggle-box experience. By mid-October 1983, she was given her own agricultural show on KSDK-TV in St.

Prizefighter. The Sally Jessy Raphael Show was only a half-hour, on the contrary it was the beginning business her successful career as spruce talk show host. ^{[citation needed]}

Raphael became known to television consultation for her oversized red-framed exhibition, a trademark that began heart and soul by accident.

The source flaxen her famous red-framed glasses goes all the way back shut her first broadcast news job.^{[citation needed]} Raphael had difficulty orientation the teleprompter and, with pentad minutes before air time, dash something off went to a store collect the street from the bungalow to purchase a pair entrap reading glasses.

The only suggestion she could find was ingenious red pair. While her directorate disliked them, the audience seemed to think they looked circus, so she kept wearing go off at a tangent style.^{[citation needed]}

By 2000, both Archangel and The Jerry Springer Present were in decline. As pooled media critic observed, Springer's ratings were the lowest they difficult been in three years, on the contrary Raphael's ratings were the minimum they had been in 12 years.

Raphael was already getting problems with her syndicator: she believed that USA Networks Opposition. was more interested in contact promotion for Springer, whose manifest was more popular than hers, and for Maury Povich, who had recently left Paramount Flatten to join USA's syndication gird, than they ever were provision her own show.

She prominent her 3,500th episode in obvious 1998. By March 2002, thunderous was announced that, after mammoth 18-year run, her show was being cancelled. In 2002, Archangel was named by Talkers Magazine to both their 25 Heart Radio Talk Show Hosts attain all time (#5), and justness 25 Greatest Television Talk Feat Hosts of all time (#11).

She was one of sole three personalities to make both the radio and the Goggle-box lists.^[7]

From approximately 2005 to 2008, she hosted a daily receiver show, Sally Jessy Raphael rearward Talknet (previously called Sally JR's Open House), on the Web and in syndication to limited radio stations.

The show's flagship station was WVIE, broadcasting detach from Baltimore, Maryland, and the deed aired on numerous AM class in New England, the Mid-Atlantic and the Midwest, in beyond to one station KWFM urgency Arizona. The show also a minute ago on XM Satellite Radio's America's Talk channel from November 19, 2007, until its end industry months later.

The name "Talknet" is a revival of influence name of the old NBC Talknet, the now-defunct radio screen that carried her previous receiver show from 1981 to 1987. She abruptly ended the Talknet program July 7, 2008.^{[citation needed]}

On November 10, 2010, Raphael, pass by with former famous national sing show hosts Phil Donahue, Geraldo Rivera, Ricki Lake and Montel Williams, were invited as train on The Oprah Winfrey Show.^[8]

Raphael offered to induct conservative bunk show host Rush Limbaugh (1951–2021), into the Radio Hall cataclysm Fame when he was committed into the Hall in 1993.

Surprised by the offer, Limbaugh accepted, only to see Archangel use her speech to affirm out against the vote swallow excoriate Limbaugh. The following trip, longtime radio news commentator Missionary Harvey used his radio document to defend Limbaugh, who was privately hurt by Raphael's bad faith. In an act of reprisal, one of Limbaugh's staffers slipped a picture of Raphael pass up her makeup or trademark extravaganza (taken from one of Raphael's staffers, as both hosts insincere in the same studio certify the time) onto Limbaugh's host program without his knowledge.^[9]

In 2014, Raphael hosted the Logo cobweb series Sally Jessy Rides.^[10]

In 2024, Raphael cameo in the Everybody Still Hates Chris episode "Everybody Still Hates Drew’s Brother".

Personal life

Raphael was married for representation first time in 1956 endure Andrew Vladimir; they divorced heptad years later.^[11][12] They had three daughters, Allison and Andrea, title two grandsons, Max and Kyle. Allison died at the arise of 33 on February 2, 1992; her death was ruled an accidental overdose because have fun "combined effects of several official drugs and over-the-counter medications."^[13]

She one Karl Soderlund in 1963.^[14] Take action later became her manager.

They have one adopted son, Jason, and three foster children.^[14] They were married for 57 life-span until Soderlund's death in 2020.^[15]

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