Sally Jessy Raphael is an American talk show host with an estimated net worth of $14.5 million. She is best known for her eponymous talk show program Sally. She is 5’9″ and weighs 138 pounds. Sally Jessy Raphael was born on February 25, 1935 in Easton, Pennsylvania. Raphael spent a lot of time in Puerto Rico as her father was in the rum exporting business. She attended Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Puerto Rico, but graduated with a BFA from Columbia University. At first Raphael aspired to become an actress but settled on going into broadcasting.
After graduating Raphael landed a job as a news correspondent covering Central America for the Associated Press and the United Press International, thanks in part to her ability to speak English and Spanish fluently. Raphael has admitted that she was not immediately successful in broadcasting. BY the early 1980s she had worked at 24 stations and had been fired from 18 of them.
Sally Jessy Raphael got her first big break in the early 1980s when she was hired to do a call-in advice radio show. By the late 1980s she was featured on the “Making of a Martyr” episode on The Equalizer.
Raphael is best known for hosting the long-running daytime talk show Sally (originally called The Sally Jessy Raphael Show). Her show ran in first-run syndication from October 17, 1983 to 2002. In 1989 Pahael won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show.
Sally Jessy Raphael in known for her trademark oversized red eyeglasses. Her show’s producers thought she should get rid of them, but her fans loved the look on her.
In recent years Raphael hosted the daily internet radio show Sally Jessy Raphael on Talknet. The show was accessible via internet and is broadcasted on XM Satellite Radio’s America’s Talk channel. The show ended July 4, 2008.
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