40 Most Notorious TV Personalities: Then and Now

Janice Villagran

Janice Villagran is a Mexican-American journalist and weather presenter. She started off her broadcasting career working as a forecaster and as a guest on several game shows.

Soon she became very popular amongst her viewers as she was what everyone called "beauty with brains." Now, she works as a reporter and an on-air host at Estrella TV network as well as I Testigo TV. She's also a part of En Vivo USA, an entertainment show.

Jake Tapper

He is an American journalist, author, and cartoonist. He started his career by working for a bunch of democratic politicians. He was also a freelance writer for a while before he began his journalism career. From 1998 to 2000, he was a senior writer for the Washington City Paper.

In 2001, Jake Tapper hosted the talk show Take Five on CNN News. From 2003 to 2010, he worked at ABC News. After that, he left ABC for CNN in 2012 and still continues to work there as Chief Washington Correspondent.

Jennifer Lahmers

Jennifer Lahmers is an American television news reporter and news anchor. She landed her first job in journalism as a reporter at WBBJ-TV in Jackson, Tennessee right after graduation. She also anchored the weekend news at that station.

In 2007, she joined Fox CT in Hartford, Connecticut as a reporter. Again from 2012 until 2014, she was an on-air personality at Back9Network, a golf cable television network. She co-anchored Good Day Wake Up on Fox 5 WNYW in New York City. Finally, she joined Extra as a correspondent in 2019.

Matt Lauer

He was an American news anchor. He started off his television career as a producer of the noon newscast for WOWK-TV in Huntington, West Virginia. In 1992, Matt Lauer joined NBC where he became co-anchor of the early weekday news show - Today in New York - on the network's New York flagship station, WNBC.

He continued to work for NBC from 1992 to 2017. In November 2017, his contract with NBC was terminated due to misconduct and allegations of inappropriate behavior.

Susan Li

Susan Li is a TV journalist. She began her career at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as an associate producer and freelance reporter. In 2006, she joined Bloomberg Television as a host.

In 2014, she started working at CNBC Asia as a co-anchor of Asia Squawk Box and later joined some of CNBC's sister networks, such as CNBC Europe and CNBC US. Lastly, in 2018, Susan Li joined Fox Business Network as a correspondent.