4. Meredith Vieira – Net worth: $40 million
The female news anchor is well known for replacing the original host of the U.S. version of ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire’.
Prior to that, Meredith Vieira, born on December 30, 1953, was the original moderator of the ABC talk show The View, from 1997 to 2006.
Meredith Vieira began her career in television in 1975, as a news announcer for WORC radio in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Her career initially gained recognition after she became a reporter for CBS in Chicago and a correspondent for ’60 Minutes’.
From 2006 to 2011, the American journalist, talk show and game show host co-hosted the NBC’s ‘Today’.
In 2014, she debuted her new program called ‘The Meredith Vieira Show’.