Former CNN Correspondent Brooke Baldwin Is Making Her Reality TV Debut
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Former CNN correspondent Brooke Baldwin is the host of Netflix's newest reality show, The Trust: A Game of Greed.
On January 10, the first four episodes of The Trust will be available to stream on Netflix, and new episodes will air weekly over a three-week period, with twelve episodes total.
"In this game, everyone starts as winners and they can all leave as winners—if they choose to share," the streaming platform states in its synopsis of the greed-centric show.
The gist: Eleven strangers come together to play a game where they can all split evenly $250,000 (a.k.a. a quarter of a million dollars). But will the players each take their fair share, or will they take a risk and try to get more money?
Taking her anchor skills to the world of reality TV, Brooke will take viewers along for the ride to see if contestants of The Trust will come out on top together—or if greed will tear them apart.
Whether you're unfamiliar with Brooke's previous work or just need a refresher on the TV personality, here's everything you need to know about Brooke Baldwin.
How old is Brooke Baldwin?
Brooke was born on July 12, 1979 and is 44 years old, per IMDb.
She’s from Atlanta.
Brooke was born in Atlanta, Georgia.
When she published her book, Huddle: How Women Unlock Their Collective Power, she held her first and only in-person book signing, which featured a Q&A and reading, in her hometown.
She shared the news to her Instagram page, writing: "ATL peeps: SAVE THE DATE! My first and only in-person book signing *and* Q&A *and* reading of @huddlethebook is happening in Atlanta, my hometown. August 10… 5-7:30pm. Details to come. There will be max capacity so… get on it. 👊🏼 Proceeds to benefit Atlanta’s AAPI community. Cannot wait to see and hug y’all! 🍑."
She went to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Brooke received a double bachelor's degree in journalism and Spanish from the university, and studied at the Universidad Ibero Americana in Mexico City, per CNN.
Brooke's broadcast journalism career began with local news.
Her first news broadcasting position was at WVR in Charlottesville, Virginia, according to CNN. She also served as the morning anchor at WOWK in Charleston/Huntington, West Virginia, where she reported on the Sago Mine collapse and Martha Stewart's release from prison, per CNN. Brooke then served as a lead reporter for WTTG's 10 p.m. newscast in Washington, D.C. before making her way to CNN in 2008.
Brooke worked at CNN from 2008 to 2021.
During her tenure at the global news organization, Brooked covered the mass shootings at Virgina Tech and the West Nickel Mines School, an Amish schoolhouse in Pennsylvania, according to her CNN profile.
She also created and hosted CNN's Digital series "American Woman," which highlighted the stories of women who have broken barriers in their industries and made it their mission to help others do the same.
At CNN, she was on air in the news room for two hours and was often sent into the field to break the biggest stories across the US and around the world. She even played a crucial role in the 2016 Presidential election, per her CNN profile.
In 2014, Brooke was nominated for an Emmy for her coverage of the NYC chokehold death protests. A year later, in 2015, she hosted a town hall with 40 people about gun violience in D.C., and the interview earned her team a Peabody Award finalist nomination, according to her IMDb bio.
Throughout her decade-plus career at CNN, Brooke reported from all around the world, including Europe, Africa, the Middle East. She even traveled to the Persian Gulf with the U.S. Navy to report on the "War on Terror," per CNN.
Brooke left CNN after 13 years with the network.
Brooke shared her departure from CNN in February 2021. She broke the news on air before starting her two-hour-long weekday afternoon edition of CNN Newsroom.
"Before we get going, I want to start with some personal news, I will be leaving CNN in April," she said before detailing her journey through the news industry. During that broadcast, Brooke also shared that it was her dream to become a "full-time CNN correspondent" and told CNN viewers that she was "so grateful for your loyalty and passion."
Upon quitting, she admitted in her announcement that she didn't have a job lined up, and that she was feeling pretty vulnerable. However, Brooke shared that she had spent the past two years writing her book, Huddle, which was published on April 6, 2021.
Huddle: How Women Unlock Their Collective Power
amazon.com
$15.00
She said that her goal was to focus on "amplifying the lives of extraordinary Americans and putting my passion for storytelling to good use," and that alongside the release of her book, there was "more I need to do outside of the walls of this place."
In a 2021 interview on the Ms. Magazine podcast, the former anchor spoke up about how she had to fight for women's stories in such a male-dominated outlet. "The most influential anchors on our network, the highest-paid, are men. My bosses, my executives, are men. The person who oversees CNN Dayside is a man, and my executive producer for 10 years is a man. So I’ve been surrounded by a lot of men,” she said, per the NY Post.
She filed for a divorce from her husband in 2023.
Brooke and British film producer James Fletcher got married in May 2018 at Liberty Farms in New York, a year after getting engaged, according to The Sun. They dated two years prior to their engagement and allegedly met at a holiday party, the outlet reported.
In February 2023, Brooke announced that she and Fletcher were divorcing in a statement on Instagram. "After nearly five years of marriage, with love and respect, James and I have decided to go our separate ways,” she said. "Our time together has been some of the most precious, defining, and awakening years of my life. I wish him nothing but the best as he begins this new chapter.”
"It's never easy to end a relationship with someone you love, but that does not always mean ending it is the wrong thing to do," she continued. "There is nothing scandalous or salacious about this decision. We are simply two people who tried our best to make our union work, but ultimately realized our individual paths were taking us on different journeys and the healthiest thing for both of us is to honor that."
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