Brianna Keilar has a new show and she does not like seaweed
As a kid she had dreams of being a fighter pilot, and now Brianna Keilar is getting ready for takeoff with a new show at CNN.
Keilar is one of three anchors — alongside Boris Sanchez and Jim Sciutto — taking the helm of “CNN News Central,” the new 1 to 4 p.m. programming block making its debut on the network on April 17. CNN says the show will have the feel of its coverage on special election nights and will serve as the “core hub of the network’s best-in-class newsgathering operation during the day.”
Keilar, who had been on the early bird shift until late last year before the revamped show, “CNN This Morning” was launched, says she digs afternoon anchoring duties: “I really like it, especially as a Washington person, because so much is happening, and it feels like the news is alive and everything’s moving.”
—- What did you want to be when you were a kid? I wanted to be a fighter pilot — mid [1980s] I wanted to be a fighter pilot because I saw ‘Top Gun.’ By the time I was in high school, I didn’t realize this, but I actually looked back on some scholarship application… it said that I wanted to be a news anchor. Now I don’t know if I understood what news anchor versus reporter was. By the time I got to college, I was majoring in psychology and mass communications. I was sort of torn between being a psychologist and doing news, and I ended up interning at a television news station and loving it. It was like being struck by lightning, and so that’s what I was going to at least try to do.
Favorite hobby: I really like cooking. And I’m trying to get back into golf, which is something that I’ve done since I was a kid but has fallen by the wayside since I’ve had children. And I think it’s time that I get back out there.
— I have a fear of: Seaweed wrapping around my foot when I’m swimming in the ocean. It’s an intense fear and it’s lifelong: ‘What is that? Is that seaweed? Is that a fish? Is that Jaws?’ I actually do love the ocean … But weirdly I’m grossed out by very little. I’m here to kill a spider. I’m here to get dirty with my kids. Very little grosses me out, but that for some reason just really does a number on me.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 98 | August 25, 2023 12:19 AM
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I watched some of the show. Different vibe with them walking around.
Brianna has lost a few pounds.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | April 18, 2023 12:32 AM
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[quote]Favorite hobby: I really like cooking.
No kidding.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | April 19, 2023 3:58 AM
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Brianna was the first one to start democrat bashing/repug praising when the new guy took over
by Anonymous | reply 8 | April 19, 2023 4:02 AM
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R8 - That is a little extreme.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | April 19, 2023 4:07 AM
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R6 - Aside from slimmer, how so? She looks more refreshed. Getting up early seemed to be taxing her.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | April 19, 2023 4:09 AM
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R8 is right, though. It was like she had a personality change or something. I used to like her shows but I won’t watch her, or anyone else for that matter, on CNN now.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | April 19, 2023 4:10 AM
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I was wondering about that R8. I haven’t watched CNN since 2016, but like clips of her I saw here. Disappointed, but not surprised to hear she’s flipped to whatever “side” her employer requires. News as entertainment, anchors just playing a role.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | April 19, 2023 4:27 AM
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I watched her pre-Trump and she could be tough on Democrats. She has been aggressive about the lies of Trump and the lies of Fox because they are off the charts bad.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | April 19, 2023 4:31 AM
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Discussion about the Supreme Court and mifepristone today.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 14 | April 19, 2023 6:51 PM
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[quote] Brianna looks different
She was unattractive on the outside, but more importantly, she was repulsive on the inside. I doubt she has changed the latter.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | April 19, 2023 9:00 PM
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She's lucky to have survived the reorg.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | April 19, 2023 9:36 PM
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R15 How was she repulsive?
by Anonymous | reply 17 | April 19, 2023 10:15 PM
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Once I thought she had lettuce in her teeth, but it was green icing.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | April 19, 2023 10:45 PM
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R16- She’s smart and well liked. She also has been with CNN a long time.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | April 20, 2023 2:37 AM
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I'm sure that counts for a lot, R19.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | April 20, 2023 2:52 AM
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R20- I think it counts for a good deal.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | April 20, 2023 3:29 AM
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I suppose the Brianna Keilar threads are long gone.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | April 20, 2023 3:48 AM
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That picture in the OP.... she's huge now. Gained a TON of weight.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | April 20, 2023 3:50 AM
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Woah! Hello Candy Crowley!
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 26 | April 20, 2023 3:51 AM
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R25 - She’s lost some weight recently.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | April 20, 2023 4:53 AM
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What a wooden delivery in the flower piece. Average anchor on a good day.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | April 21, 2023 6:41 PM
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R29- I did not think it was wooden.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | April 21, 2023 6:44 PM
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Well, then you're pretty fangurling.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | April 21, 2023 6:58 PM
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R31 - She is anything but wooden. Her voice is well modulated.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | April 22, 2023 1:00 AM
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R32, ignore says you've said that twice. And several other sad acts of misguided chivalry, Douglas Breen.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | April 22, 2023 1:13 AM
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R28, is that an episode of 2 Fat Chicks?
by Anonymous | reply 35 | April 22, 2023 7:11 AM
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Brianna is probably happy that she did not have to do the AM show with Lemon.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | April 25, 2023 3:45 AM
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She must be stress eating these days.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | April 25, 2023 12:58 PM
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R37 - She clearly stress ate during the pandemic.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | April 25, 2023 5:44 PM
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She’s light years better than Kate Bolduan who always looks like she just finished crying her eyes out in her cubicle moments before going on the air.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | April 26, 2023 1:16 AM
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Brianna is a beautiful woman. She can get as fat as Elizabeth Taylor and will still be beautiful. I enjoyed her morning show with John Berman. He is so generous with his co-hosts, I don't understand why CNN doesn't give him his own show. Brianna, John, and Christine Romans seem to be the nicest people at CNN.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | April 26, 2023 2:04 AM
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R41- I like John Berman too. I also think he and Brianna worked well together. But he lives in NY and she lives in DC. Having them in separate cities did not work for the show. Also, I don’t think Brianna liked working early mornings.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | April 26, 2023 2:15 AM
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Brianna shouldn't try to lose too much weight. She's more effective as the no nonsense fat chick. The extra weight actually works to her benefit.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | April 26, 2023 5:58 AM
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I like the hairstyle Brianna has settled on.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | April 26, 2023 5:37 PM
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Jim, Boris, and Brianna had a segment today where they sat down - scandalous.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | April 27, 2023 1:25 AM
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NO SITTING is obviously the new rule at CNN. Poor Brianna and Kate and all the femmes who have to wear heels. Screw it, ladies, start wearing Skechers.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | April 27, 2023 3:28 PM
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I want Boris Sanchez shirtless for two days each week.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | April 27, 2023 11:48 PM
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Do we know if Boris is slutty or horny by chance?
by Anonymous | reply 49 | April 27, 2023 11:50 PM
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R47 Griner has cheekbones similar to Don Lemon. They could be siblings.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | April 28, 2023 1:40 AM
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Brianna and Brooke Baldwin competed in a quiz show when CNN was during their 80s show back in 2016.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 52 | April 28, 2023 4:56 AM
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R52 That was fun when CNN would do their version of Jeopardy. Anderson Cooper was host; Jake Tapper and John Berman -- one or the other was always the winner!
by Anonymous | reply 53 | April 28, 2023 3:02 PM
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R53 - They should do more of those.
Anderson loves playing game show host.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | April 28, 2023 5:28 PM
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She looked stunning in pink at the WHCD.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | May 1, 2023 4:42 AM
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Picture of Jim, Brianna, and Boris.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 57 | May 1, 2023 7:56 PM
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Brianna would have been a better choice for this townhall thing. Maybe she had the good sense to say no.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | May 11, 2023 2:01 AM
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[R59] I agree, Brianna would have been a much better choice. For that matter, so would Acosta, King, Berman, Tapper, almost anyone. But from what I’ve read, Trump not only requested Carlson protege Collins, he insisted.
No competent journalist was ever going to get that assignment.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | May 16, 2023 12:14 PM
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What are these slacks called?
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 64 | June 1, 2023 10:14 PM
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Brianna is wearing a large very colorful belt today.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | June 15, 2023 6:40 PM
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Today was about the missing Titanic tourist ship.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 67 | June 20, 2023 1:45 AM
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Those big chunky legs hurt my eyes. Even dressed in all black (which she always is these days) she looks huge. Ugh.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | June 20, 2023 2:19 AM
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R68 - She is not in all black today.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | June 20, 2023 6:28 PM
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Brianna, Jim, and Boris react to the story about the janitor who ruined 20 years of research by unplugging a freezer.
Brianna said she gets mad when someone leaves her freezer door open.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 72 | July 2, 2023 4:12 AM
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She's roomy in the hips and would make an excellent skin suit.
by Anonymous | reply 74 | July 4, 2023 9:20 PM
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How much does her show’s budget allow for Spanx?
by Anonymous | reply 75 | July 4, 2023 11:20 PM
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Today it’s about the cocaine in the WH.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 76 | July 5, 2023 11:55 PM
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Wow, fattie's got Ozempic! Looking... just plump now.
by Anonymous | reply 80 | July 7, 2023 2:29 AM
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Today talking about the wild meeting in the last days of the Trump admin.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 81 | July 7, 2023 7:12 PM
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On Aretha Franklin’s estate fight.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 82 | July 12, 2023 7:06 PM
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She lit into Michael Waltz (R-FL) today.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 83 | July 14, 2023 1:10 AM
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Is Boris still doing this news show? Because if Boris is on I am going to find a way to watch him and his cute catipillar eyebrows.
by Anonymous | reply 84 | July 14, 2023 1:57 AM
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Brianna and Boris work better together than either does with Jim.
by Anonymous | reply 86 | July 22, 2023 8:43 PM
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Slow news day yesterday before the indictment.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 87 | August 2, 2023 10:17 PM
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Brianna is slimmer than Katelyn.
by Anonymous | reply 90 | August 4, 2023 11:19 PM
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R92 Brianna definitively is slimmer than Katelyn Polantz.
by Anonymous | reply 93 | August 5, 2023 1:22 AM
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I think she might be pregnant.
by Anonymous | reply 97 | August 24, 2023 10:57 PM
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