Demetria kalodimos marriage

  • Verlon Thompson is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and troubadour from Binger, Oklahoma.
  • Kalodimos and Thompson have been married for 10 years, an unlikely couple Thompson describes as “the pig farmer and the opera singer.”.
  • Sophisticated Chicago-born TV anchor Demetria Kalodimos ends up marrying a successful songwriter named Verlon Thompson.

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    Demetria Kalodimos: 5 things to know

    Former Channel 4 anchor Demetria Kalodimos lit up the internet by suing her old bosses Tuesday, accusing them of age and gender discrimination.

    If you're new to town, here are five things to know about Kalodimos and her 33 years of delivering the news in Nashville.

    1. A great Greek bartender

    Kalodimos, a Greek native of suburban Chicago, often shows up for the annual Nashville Greek Festival. In fact, Kalodimos has been spotted at the beer and wine table pouring drinks for festivalgoers and chatting them up.

    2. Award-winning journalist

    Kalodimos has scored 16 national Emmys, three national Investigative Reporters and Editors Awards, two Edward R. Murrow Awards for investigative reporting, three National Headliner Awards, two American Women in Radio and TV Awards, AP Broadcaster of the Year in 1997, and she's a 2016 inductee into the Tennessee Journalism Hall of Fame.

    3. Demetria the documentarian

    4. Her husband the songwriter

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    Demetria Kalodimos

    American television news presenter

    Demetria Kalodimos is a television news presenter based in Nashville, Tennessee. She was formerly an anchor for WSMV-TV, an NBC affiliate based in Nashville, Tennessee,[2][3] where she appeared on weeknight broadcasts at 6 and 10 p.m.[1]

    Biography

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    Life and education

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    Kalodimos grew up in Morton Grove, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.[3] She earned her bachelor's degree in music education from Illinois Wesleyan University, where she lived in Dodds Hall, in 1981. She later earned a master of science degree in journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.[1] In the early 1990s Kalodimos was part of a lawsuit involving a contractor she hired to build a home. The contractor eventually filed for bankruptcy.[4] In the late 1990s she went through a well-publicized divorce and faced sensational allegations regarding her behavior.[5]

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    Demetria Kalodimos' love story: 'The pig farmer and the opera singer'

    Demetria Kalodimos made the first move, and it was awkward.

    In a music club hallway, a nervous Kalodimos chatted up her crush, country singer/songwriter Verlon Thompson, who said little. It ended with a proposition from the beloved Emmy-winning news anchor –

    Hey, how about we take a walk someday or get a bowl of soup?

    Uh, soup?

    Kalodimos and Thompson busted out laughing nearly 20 years later.

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    “I thought a soup date would be really safe,” Kalodimos said, smiling. “It’s not a whole dinner or lunch.”

    It worked. Kalodimos and Thompson have been married for 10 years, an unlikely couple Thompson describes as “the pig farmer and the opera singer.”

    “We are from totally different geographical places, but ... as you live together and grow tillsammans, we’re very much alike in a lot of different ways,” Kalodimos said, sitting with Thompson in their gorgeous ru