Ben Aaron
Career[edit]
Aaron started his journalism career on radio in 1999 at 18 years old working for Radio Disney.[10] After a brief stint hosting a radio show in Tucson, Arizona, he moved to Los Angeles and landed an on-air television hosting job for Daybreak OC, an Orange County-based morning lifestyle/news show serving all of Los Angeles. From there he went to KSWB in San Diego continuing his work as a features reporter until WNBC in New York picked him up. He has worked for NBCUniversal at WNBC as their host of New York Live.[10] There he received three consecutive Emmy Awards for "Best Features Reporter". He was a co-host of the nationally syndicated television program, Crazy Talk as well as being a correspondent for Extra.[11][12] In September 2017, Aaron began co-hosting Pickler & Ben, a syndicated talk show, with country star Kellie Pickler.[13] After that talk show's cancellation in summer 2019, he returned to New York, staying employed by Pickler & Ben distributor Scripps as a morning features reporter for their newly acquired New York station, WPIX-TV at the start of 2020.[3]
Personal life[edit]
In August 2013, Aaron became engaged to ABC News Chief Meteorologist Ginger Zee.[14] The couple wed on June 7, 2014.[15] Their son Adrian Benjamin Colonomos was born in December 2015.[16] in Petoskey, Michigan.[17] On August 14, 2017, Zee announced on Good Morning America that she was pregnant with the couple's second child. On February 9, 2018, she gave birth to a boy, named Miles Macklin.[16] The family lives in Rockland County, New York.