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AJ Hammer Profile |
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Birth Date: October 31, 1966
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Birth Place: White Plains, New York, USA
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Birth Name: Andrew Goldberg
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Biography |
A. J. Hammer is a television and radio personality who, as
of now, hosts CNN Headline News evening show, Showbiz
Tonight.
From 2001 to 2005, Hammer hosted Court TV's Hollywood Heat,
a program focusing on crime and justice in the entertainment
business. He also hosted several programs on Sirius
Satellite Radio.
Hammer also was a correspondent for several programs
including: the daily morning program Good Day New York, the
entertainment news program Extra and E! channel's News Live.
During most of the 1990s, he was a host of VH1's Top 10
Countdown.
Hammer is a 1984 graduate of White Plains High School, White
Plains, New York. He graduated with a degree in philosophy
from the University of Hartford in 1988. He was involved
with the Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity. AEPi is the only
official Jewish fraternity in America.
Hammer began his broadcasting career at the age of 15, at
WNBC radio in New York City. While in college he worked at
WTIC-FM (Hartford, Connecticut). He later worked for WPLJ
radio and Z-100 (WHTZ) radio, both in New York City.
Hammer appears as a model in the book Heartthrob: A Hundred
Years of Beautiful Men (in which he is described as
possessing "almost-too-good-looking-for-words
attractiveness") and the October 1999 issue of Gym magazine.
He also appears in The Mane Thing, a book by stylist Kevin
Mancuso.
Hammer also was the spokesperson for Milton Bradley's
promotional tour of the Planet Hollywood board game. |
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since January 19, 2009