| Personal Information Summary | |
|---|---|
| Name | Karen Hepp |
| Birthday / How old is Karen Hepp Age / Date of Birth | November 3, 1969. As of 2024, she is around 55 years old. |
| Wedding & Marriage / Husband / Dating / Boyfriend | Married. Check the full bio for relationship details. |
| Who is Karen Hepp’s husband? | Hepp married her husband Brian Sullivan on June 4, 2005. |
| Children / No. of Kids | 3 |
| Ethnicity / Origin / Heritage / Race | White |
| Nationality | American |
Introduction :
Karen Hepp has had a long, successful career, spanning more than two decades, as an anchor & reporter. She is now an anchor for Good Day Philadelphia.
Personal Life, Parents and Family Details :
- Karen was born on November 3, 1969, to parents Lucy and Robert W. Hepp, in Charlestown, Pennsylvania. She was raised in the same town.
- Hepp’s parents were real estate agents at Prudential Fox & Roach, Realtors in Malvern, Pennsylvania.
- Karen married her husband, Brian Sullivan, on June 4, 2005, at the St. John Neumann Roman Catholic Church in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
- Brian is a Pennsylvania State University alumni & an insurance executive at Sullivan & Company, which was founded by his father, Joseph Sullivan.
- Karen’s mother-in-law, Maureen Sullivan, also works at Prudential Fox and Roach like her parents but at the Bryn Mawr office.
- The couple lives in Philadelphia with her husband and their three sons: Quinn, Macklin and Kellen.
- Karen and her husband have a clear passion for sports, particularly those associated with Philadelphia-based teams, as evidenced by their children’s names: Jeremy, named after the former Eagles wide receiver; Quinn, named in honor of former Notre Dame quarterback Brady Quinn; and Kellen, named after former NFL player Kellen Winslow Sr. In addition to being an avid sports fan, Karen enjoys running, hiking, and spectating from the sidelines of soccer fields.
Education : Qualifications, High School & College Info
- Karen attended the Agnes Irwin School, an all girls college preparatory day school in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
- She took AP Physics, AP Chemistry and AP Biology before graduating in 1989.
- After graduating high school in 1989, she pursued a Bachelor of Arts in Broadcast Journalism at New York University in Manhattan, New York.
- Karen graduated with the class of 1993.
Interesting Facts and Trivia :
- Karen named her three sons after professional football players.
- She is very sporty and enjoys yoga, rollerblading, and running.
- For part of college, she pursued medical sciences before switching to journalism.
- Karen had first met her husband, Brian, at the New Jersey shore.
- In 2019, Hepp filed a massive lawsuit against Facebook, Reddit, and few other online companies. She alleged that a picture of her was being used for “illicit purposes” on many dating apps, erectile dysfunction pills ads, and even a pornography site!
TV Career, Job, Salary and Net Worth :
- Hepp’s first job after college was from 1994 to 1995 as an anchor for WMGC-TV, a company in Birmingham, New York.
- She then worked as a reporter for WROC-8 from 1995 to 1996 in Rochester, New York. From 1996 to 1997, she moved to Hartford, Connecticut, to work for the same company.
- In 1997, Karen moved to be a reporter at the NBC affiliate, WVIT-TV, in New Britain, Connecticut. She stayed there until 2002.
- Over the course of the next 8 years, Karen continued working for NBC in several capacities, many of which overlapped in terms of time frame:
- Reporter at WCAU-TV in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from 1997 to 2002
- Anchor at NBC Universal in Manhattan, New York from 1998 to 2003
- Anchor at WNBC in Manhattan, New York from 2002 to 2003
- Anchor at WNBC-TV in Manhattan, New York from 2004 to 2005
- From January 2004 to February 2009, Hepp worked as an anchor at Fox-owned WNYW-TV in Manhattan, New York. In January 2005, she became the anchor of Good Day New York.
- She then moved back to Philadephia, Pennsylvania, in November 2010, where she still lives and works as an anchor for Good Day Philadelphia on WTXF-TV.
- Member of the American Federation of Radio and Television Artists.
Karen Hepp Measurements :
- Eye Color : Blue
- Haircut / Hair Color : Blonde
- How tall is Karen Hepp Height : 5′6″
- Feet / Legs / Boots / Shoe Size : No confirmed information is available.
- Pregnant? : Currently, she is not expecting a baby.
