Allison Gollust Biography – Allison Gollust Wiki
Allison Gollust is the executive vice president and chief marketing officer at CNN Worldwide. She is a longtime public relations specialist who has spent her career working in television. She got her start as a news anchor, reporter, and producer in Denver before moving to the Big Apple and hitting it big with NBC News, according to her bio on CNN. She began at the network’s corporate communications office in 1996 and in 1997, she was named senior publicist for “Today.” Before her work at CNN, Ms. Gollust served as Andrew Cuomo’s communications director in 2012.
As Zucker was promoted to NBC Entertainment’s president, Gollust continued to climb the corporate ladder in the network’s public relations department. “With successive promotions, Gollust added responsibility for communications efforts supporting NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC and the Weather Channel, and signature programs including NBC Nightly News, Dateline and Meet the Press,” her CNN bio states. She rose to become NBC Universal’s executive vice president of corporate communications but left around the same time Zucker did when Comcast purchased the network.
She briefly left the TV world behind in 2012 for a stint as former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s communications director. In a statement at the time, the disgraced politician called her “a consummate professional who has a wealth of experience in communications and management.” After four months, Zucker tapped Gollust to become CNN’s senior vice president of communications at CNN, about a month after he became president of CNN Worldwide. That October, she was promoted to chief marketing officer at CNN and later became an executive vice president at the network.
Allison Gollust Age
As of 2022, she is 49 years.
Allison Gollust Husband
Before she started her relationship with Zucker, she was previously married to William Hult, public records show. Hult, who goes by Billy Hult, is currently the president of Tradeweb Markets, an international financial services firm, according to the company’s website. The couple filed for divorce in 2015 and the case was settled in 2017, according to court records. They share two children together.
Allison Gollust Children
With her ex-husband Bill Hunt, the two share two children, two daughters, Olivia and Ava.
Allison Gollust – Jeff Zucker Relationship
Zucker, announced he was retiring from CNN network Wednesday morning, January 2, 2022, after he failed to disclose his relationship with Gollust to CNN and said it came to light during the station’s probe into Chris Cuomo. According to New York Post, Gollust claimed she and Zucker had long been friends but their relationship changed amid the pandemic — a claim CNN insiders termed as a “bold-faced lie.”
Gollust began working with Zucker when the two were at NBC News in the 1990s. While Zucker was executive producer of Today, Gollust was promoted as the show’s lead publicist. They continued to work together throughout their professional career and for years, television insiders suspected their friendship was a lot more than they were letting on. Soledad O’Brien, a former CNN anchor, wrote on Twitter Wednesday Gollust and Zucker’s relationship was “an open secret.”
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