Arthel Neville

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Arthel Neville (born 20 October 1962 in New Orleans, Louisiana), is a television personality. She began her career while a junior at the University of Texas at Austin. As the first black woman reporter at KVUE-TV, her general assignment beat took her to the streets of Austin covering live breaking news, politics, education, health and human-interest stories. Arthel also spend several years in the early to mid 90s at WVUE in New Orleans as an anchor and entertainment reporter. Later, she worked at Fox News Channel as an anchor and correspondent, and at CNN, where she hosted Talk Back Live With Arthel Neville, among other on-air duties.

Arthel's experience extends outside of hard news into the world of entertainment and celebrities. She hosted and co-produced a one-on-one celebrity interview show on E! Entertainment Television. She also launched Extra for Warner Brothers studios, becoming the first African-American female to host a nationally syndicated entertainment news magazine program. In 1994, she co-hosted the Miss Universe pageant in Manila, Philippines with Entertainment Tonight's Bob Goen.

Arthel later hosted of Celebrity Hobbies on DIY Network and served as a corresspondent for the short-lived revival of the syndicated newsmagazine A Current Affair in 2005 until that program's cancellation in October of that year. In March 2006, it was announced that she would be joining the Fox News produced syndicated newsmagazine Geraldo at Large as a West-Coast correspondent[link].

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