A wide variety of CNN talent has filled in for Kate Bolduan on her maternity leave for CNN International’s State of America. This week, Canadian correspondent Paula Newton will fill in; next week, senior Congressional correspondent Manu Raju has been tapped to anchor for the week; and for the following week, CNN analyst John Avlon wil make a return to hosting the program, as announced by Bolduan’s executive producer, Jason Morrell.
And then, after Avlon — Bolduan returns from maternity leave on April 9 to take over hosting duties of CNN Domestic’s At This Hour and CNN International’s State of America.
Categories: CNN
Either Fox News (surprisingly to some) is the most generous with maternity leave.
Or it is left up to the mother.
To wit:
ABC’s Sara Haines – 11 or 12 weeks leave
FNC’s Abby Huntsman – 19 weeks
CNN’s Kate Bolduan – 16 weeks
Hopefully Kate returns without the baggage attributed to her before she went on leave…e.g., reports of being rude, explosive, snapping at people on set and just being overbearing.
https://cnncommentary.com/2017/12/19/staff-couldnt-be-happier-that-kate-bolduan-is-on-maternity-leave-report/
Do NOT put her back on AIR unless u want TRP’s to completely nosedive. She was such an annoying person to watch on TV that i actually thought she got fired for such BS performance n producers finally had it with her. Her coming back is heart breaking, let her be in the back office pls
Neo V I couldn’t disagree more. She has a great personality for TV: as much of a cliche as it might be, she seems “like a real person.” Very forthright when the situation calls for it.
I missed her!