Carson Jones Daly is an American TV host, a celebrity on the radio, a writer, and a celebrity on television. Before 2002, Daly was a VJ for MTV’s Total Request Live and a DJ for the 106.7 KROQ-FM radio station in Southern California. Daly joined NBC in 2002, where he began hosting and producing the late-night talk show Last Call with Carson Daly, and occasionally hosting special event programming for NBC, such as the fireworks show Macy’s Fourth of July, and executive producing New Year’s Eve with Carson Daly from Times Square beginning 2003.
Since then, Daly has been involved in more prominent roles at NBC, such as becoming host to its 2011 reality music competition The Voice, and joining NBC’s morning show Today as a social media correspondent in 2013, with his role gradually becoming a co-host in subsequent years.
Daly was also a radio DJ. Formerly a nighttime host on Los Angeles radio station KROQ-FM, he started hosting Mornings on his sister station KAMP-FM with Carson Daly starting in 2010. Daly also hosts a weekly top 30 countdown show with Carson Daly, created through Westwood One by Entercom and. It airs on the CHR / AC radio stations on Saturday and Sunday mornings in a 3-4 hour format.
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Carson Daly: Early Life, Education, Family
Daly was born on 22 June 1973 in Santa Monica, California. Pattie Daly Caruso, son of Coachella Valley TV personality and Jim “J.D.” Daly, a car salesman. His mother’s from Fayetteville, N.C. When Carson was a child his father died of bladder cancer and his mother married Richard Caruso.
Daly attended Santa Monica High School before graduating in 1991 and was a member of the golf team at the academy. He attended Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and dropped out to pursue a career in golf pro. He is of Irish origin and served on local “Proposition 3-17” with Guinness to make Saint Patrick’s Day an official holiday. Daly served as a radio intern for Jimmy Kimmel. He began his radio career at Desert College and as an intern at the former KCMJ FM (now KKUU) under the name “Kid Carson”.
Carson Daly: Career and achievements
Daly started his broadcasting career at the San Jose, California radio station KOME. At KOME’s sister station KROQ in Los Angeles Daly was then assigned the 6-10 PM time slot. It was during Daly’s time at KROQ that MTV recruited Daly to serve as a VJ during MTV’s “Motel California” summer beach house program. At the end of the summer, MTV hired Daly as a permanent VJ, a position that required Daly to relocate to New York. Daly had started hosting MTV Live once in New York.
From 1998 until 2003, Daly hosted MTV’s TRL. TRL originated from two shows hosted by Daly, “Total Request” and “MTV Life”. The role of Daly as host of the famous live show included announcing the day’s top ten videos and interviewing celebrity guests. The last Call debuted in 2002, with Carson Daly. The series was filmed on the same set as Saturday Night Live before it relocated to Los Angeles in the year 2005. Beginning in 2003-2004, Daly began hosting a New Year’s Eve special with Carson Daly for NBC, New Year’s Eve.
Daly began presenting and executive-producing the reality music show The Voice of NBC in 2011. Carson Daly stars in the first episode of My Name Is Earl, in a short but crucial role. Carson Daly also played a minor part in Chappelle’s Show with Dave Chappelle.
Daly is a founding member of an independent record label, with Jonathan Rifkind, Jonathan B. Davis, and Bam Margera, 456 Company & Culture, which issued the compilations “Viva La Bands.”
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Carson Daly: Personal life and wife
Tara Reid met Daly in March 2000 on the Total Request Live set, and they started dating. They shared an apartment proposed on 29 October in New York City and Daly. Reid and Daly broke off their engagement in June 2001.
In 2013, Daly became engaged with the food blogger Siri Pinter. Actor Mark Pinter is her father. The pair married in a small ceremony on 23 December 2015. The pair have four kids. Recently, they welcomed their fourth child during the coronavirus outbreak and updated on 27 March 2020. Daly is Roman Catholic. Daly’s struggle with a generalized anxiety disorder has opened up.
Carson Daly: Net Worth and social media
The California-born TV host has $40 million net worth. In addition, his main source of income is his career as a host on television and radio.
Likewise, talking about his social media availability, he is available on Instagram by the name carsondaly. He has 506k followers on Instagram.
Carson Daly: Body measurements
Daly is a handsome man with a sporty and proportional frame. Additionally, he is 1.88 m tall and weighs nearly 73kgs. However, Daly’s body measurements are not available.