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| caption = Kym Christian in 2013 | | caption = Kym Christian in 2013 | ||
| birth_name = Kymberly Laura Christian | | birth_name = Kymberly Laura Christian | ||
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| birth_place = Denver, Colorado | | birth_place = Denver, Colorado | ||
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| − | | other_names = Kym Christian (1967-2014)<BR>Kymberly Christian (1967-1994)<BR>Kym Alvaraz (2014- | + | | other_names = Kym Christian (1967-2014)<BR>Kymberly Christian (1967-1994)<BR>Kym Alvaraz (2014-; alternate) |
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| alma_mater = University of Northern Colorado | | alma_mater = University of Northern Colorado | ||
| occupation = news anchorwoman | | occupation = news anchorwoman | ||
| − | | years_active = 1989- | + | | years_active = 1989-present |
| − | | employer = NoSirGifts (1994- | + | | employer = NoSirGifts (1994-present) |
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| criminal_status = Free | | criminal_status = Free | ||
| spouse = {{marriage|()=small |Dan Alvaraz|1994-2-14|2014-11-23|end=div.}} | | spouse = {{marriage|()=small |Dan Alvaraz|1994-2-14|2014-11-23|end=div.}} | ||
| − | | partner = {{ubl|Reginald Lasks (1979–1985)|[[Ava Zinn]] (2014- | + | | partner = {{ubl|Reginald Lasks (1979–1985)|[[Ava Zinn]] (2014-18)|[[Julia Passalt]] (2018-)}} |
| children = {{ubl|'''With Dan Alvaraz:'''|[[Stephani Alvaraz]]|[[Hayley Alvaraz|Hayley Julie Alvaraz]]|[[Benita Alvaraz]]|[[Denise Alvaraz]]|'''With Ava Zinn:'''|[[Kenny Alvaraz|Kenneth Alvaraz]]}} | | children = {{ubl|'''With Dan Alvaraz:'''|[[Stephani Alvaraz]]|[[Hayley Alvaraz|Hayley Julie Alvaraz]]|[[Benita Alvaraz]]|[[Denise Alvaraz]]|'''With Ava Zinn:'''|[[Kenny Alvaraz|Kenneth Alvaraz]]}} | ||
| parents = [[Julie Christian]] (mother) | | parents = [[Julie Christian]] (mother) | ||
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| − | '''Kymberly | + | '''Kymberly Alvaraz''' (née Christian) (born July 28, 1967) is a former [[wikipedia:United States|American]] evening news anchor for Fox affiliate station KDNC-FTV of [[wikipedia:Denver, Colorado|Denver, Colorado]] and currently a moderator of [[Vote for the Girls (U.S.)|the American version of ''Vote for the Girls'']]. She is also best known for having had an [[wikipedia:adultery|affair]] with Indiana-based entrepreneur and webmaster [[Ava Zinn]]. Zinn, in the spring of 2014, had [[Ava's Virginity Auction|successfully]] [[wikipedia:virginity auction|auctioned her virginity]] for a long term relationship to Alvaraz, that was revealed in [[State of Indiana v. Kymberly Alvaraz|Kym's criminal trial]] and during a segment of Vote for the Girls in March 2015. |
==Early Life and career== | ==Early Life and career== | ||
| − | Kymberly Alvaraz was born Kymberly Laura Christian in Denver. Her father, David Joesph Christian (1935 – 1993), was a florist. Her mother, [[Julie Christian]] (née Mengering | + | Kymberly Alvaraz was born Kymberly Laura Christian in Denver. Her father, David Joesph Christian (1935 – 1993), was a florist. Her mother, [[Julie Christian]] (née Mengering), a news anchorwoman at KTRJ, KIAA, and KDEN, has been an occasional figure in Denver, usually at holidays and birthdays. Her father is of German descent, and her mother had English, Scots-Irish, and German ancestry. Kym has an older sister, Laverne (b. 1963), an older brother, Juan (b. 1965), a younger sister [[Davina Christian|Davina]] (formerly Dave Jr.) (b. 1969), and a younger brother, [[Stephen Christian|Stephen]] (formerly Shirley) (b. 1971). Davina and Stephen are both transsexuals with Stephen transitioning from female to male in 1994 and Davina transitioning from male to female in 1996. |
She lived on the south side of Denver ([[wikipedia:Hampden South, Denver|Hampden South]] area), not far from Aurora, Colorado, and the [[wikipedia:Stapleton International Airport|Stapleton International Airport]], and she enjoyed collecting model airplanes, including fighter jets. In 2010, she told an interviewer for ''Colorado Magazine'' that, while growing up, she admired her mother's ability to tell jokes and be the life of the party. David Christian survived a heart attack at age 36, when Kymberly was a young girl. The fear of losing her father was constantly with Christian as she grew up.<ref>''Colorado Magazine'' c.2010 </ref> The elder Christian died of a second [[wikipedia:heart attack|heart attack]] at age 57, and Kymberly admitted was a fear she soon realized<ref name=KymA-DV/>. | She lived on the south side of Denver ([[wikipedia:Hampden South, Denver|Hampden South]] area), not far from Aurora, Colorado, and the [[wikipedia:Stapleton International Airport|Stapleton International Airport]], and she enjoyed collecting model airplanes, including fighter jets. In 2010, she told an interviewer for ''Colorado Magazine'' that, while growing up, she admired her mother's ability to tell jokes and be the life of the party. David Christian survived a heart attack at age 36, when Kymberly was a young girl. The fear of losing her father was constantly with Christian as she grew up.<ref>''Colorado Magazine'' c.2010 </ref> The elder Christian died of a second [[wikipedia:heart attack|heart attack]] at age 57, and Kymberly admitted was a fear she soon realized<ref name=KymA-DV/>. | ||
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==Career== | ==Career== | ||
===Anchorwoman=== | ===Anchorwoman=== | ||
| − | Alvaraz began her television as an intern on then | + | Alvaraz began her television as an intern on then Fox affiliate KDEN (now a MyNetworkTV affilaite) as an anchor, and [[wikipedia:Meteorologist|weather woman]] in 1988. She received some attention for her unpredictable on-air behavior, which included congratulating a [[wikipedia:thunderstorm|thunderstorm]] for being upgraded to a [[wikipedia:tornado|tornado]]. She would also occasionally report the weather and the day's very high and low temps for fictitious cities ("Eight inches of snow in Rocky Road City and surrounding areas"). |
| − | ====KIAA==== | + | ====First stint at KIAA==== |
| − | On June 23, 1989, Alvaraz was morning anchor for then | + | On June 23, 1989, Alvaraz was morning anchor for then NBC affiliate KIAA-FTV's (channel 9, now a CW affiliate) ''9 News Today in Colorado'' It was originally 30 minutes long, but was expanded to 60 minutes in August 1990. The show ran Monday through Friday at 6:30 a.m. [[wikipedia:Mountain time zone|Mountain Time]], followed by ''[[wikipedia:Today (U.S. TV program)|Today]].'' It was during Alvaraz's time KIAA, she also began substituting for [[Elaine Carson]] on the weekday evening editions of ''9 News''. |
Alvaraz co-anchored the morning newscast with [[Bryant Allen]]. Ratings on ''9 News Today in Colorado'' declined after Alvaraz’s arrival. Critics felt that the anchor team lacked chemistry and many loyal viewers began turning to rival then-ABC affiliate KLZL (channel 4, now CBS O&O) and then-CBS affiliate KDNC (channel 2, now a Fox affiliate). KIAA management was accused of mishandling the transition. One insider told the Denver Post, “KIAA handled the whole situation in a very poor manner. I don’t think she (Kym) blames anyone in particular. I just think she feels the situation was handled unprofessionally – in an undignified manner for both her, Kym, and Kylie (Dwyar).” <ref name="DenverPost">{{cite news|author=Staff(s)title=With Mornings to Herself, Kym Christian Revels in Daughter Steph and Maternal Bliss|date=March 25, 1993|accessdate=August 5, 2015}}</ref> When Alvaraz took maternity leave upon the birth of her first child, she did return to KIAA, but not as anchor of ''9 News Today in Colorado''. | Alvaraz co-anchored the morning newscast with [[Bryant Allen]]. Ratings on ''9 News Today in Colorado'' declined after Alvaraz’s arrival. Critics felt that the anchor team lacked chemistry and many loyal viewers began turning to rival then-ABC affiliate KLZL (channel 4, now CBS O&O) and then-CBS affiliate KDNC (channel 2, now a Fox affiliate). KIAA management was accused of mishandling the transition. One insider told the Denver Post, “KIAA handled the whole situation in a very poor manner. I don’t think she (Kym) blames anyone in particular. I just think she feels the situation was handled unprofessionally – in an undignified manner for both her, Kym, and Kylie (Dwyar).” <ref name="DenverPost">{{cite news|author=Staff(s)title=With Mornings to Herself, Kym Christian Revels in Daughter Steph and Maternal Bliss|date=March 25, 1993|accessdate=August 5, 2015}}</ref> When Alvaraz took maternity leave upon the birth of her first child, she did return to KIAA, but not as anchor of ''9 News Today in Colorado''. | ||
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The 10 p.m. news on KDNC moved to 9 p.m. when the station switched from CBS to Fox in March 1996. In 1997 and 1998, KDNC's 5 and 6 p.m. newscasts consistently gained higher ratings than KIAA. But in 1999, ratings dipped and KIAA's 5 and 6 p.m. consistently beat KDNC at 5:00 p.m. KDNC was sold to DakMedia (aka Fox Fantasy TV Stations) in 1997 and then to NoSirGifts Venues in 2010. Within six months into NoSirGifts' ownership of KDNC, changes at KDNC were made and expanded newscasts for KZCO (which NoSirGifts acquired from USNCD News Venues) and KDNC. The newscasts on KDNC rebranded from ''Fox 2 News'' (KDNC's news branding from 1996 to 2009) to ''Fox 2 Action News'' (later ''Colorado's 2 Action News'') while KZCO's were rebranded to ''Z-24 Action News'' (now ''NBC 24 Action News'' as of June 2015) and the combined news operation of KDNC and KZCO were rebranded as ''Colorado's Action News.'' | The 10 p.m. news on KDNC moved to 9 p.m. when the station switched from CBS to Fox in March 1996. In 1997 and 1998, KDNC's 5 and 6 p.m. newscasts consistently gained higher ratings than KIAA. But in 1999, ratings dipped and KIAA's 5 and 6 p.m. consistently beat KDNC at 5:00 p.m. KDNC was sold to DakMedia (aka Fox Fantasy TV Stations) in 1997 and then to NoSirGifts Venues in 2010. Within six months into NoSirGifts' ownership of KDNC, changes at KDNC were made and expanded newscasts for KZCO (which NoSirGifts acquired from USNCD News Venues) and KDNC. The newscasts on KDNC rebranded from ''Fox 2 News'' (KDNC's news branding from 1996 to 2009) to ''Fox 2 Action News'' (later ''Colorado's 2 Action News'') while KZCO's were rebranded to ''Z-24 Action News'' (now ''NBC 24 Action News'' as of June 2015) and the combined news operation of KDNC and KZCO were rebranded as ''Colorado's Action News.'' | ||
| − | Kymberly Alvaraz (as Kym Christian) co-anchored with [[Janet Webb]] for KDNC's 4 and 9 p.m. newscast from 1994 to 2014 and WTOR's weekend morning newscast | + | Kymberly Alvaraz (as Kym Christian) co-anchored with [[Janet Webb]] for KDNC's 4 and 9 p.m. newscast from 1994 to 2014 and WTOR's weekend morning newscast starting in July 2017, creating a two-woman anchor team that NoSirGifts began to encourage their stations to pair two females for their evening newscasts (or at least the early afternoon and late newscasts). on March 31, 2013, Kym Christian and Janet Webb became the longest tenured anchor team previously held by Elaine Carson and Edd Stardell at KIAA (that was held from 1974 to 1993). |
| − | The Action News format in Denver proved to be popular in NoSirGifts-owned stations as KDNC benefited from Fox's ratings increases in primetime as well as an improved news product that took advantage of High Definition technology. By the end of the 2000's, the Christian and Webb team at KDNC had a 32% ratings share at 9:00 p.m., more than all of the other stations at 10:00 p.m. combined, as KTRJ (now an ABC O&O), KIAA, and KLZL (now a CBS O&O) battled to stay out of last place, each pulling in about a 3 share for their newscasts. | + | The Action News format in Denver proved to be popular in NoSirGifts-owned stations as KDNC benefited from Fox's ratings increases in primetime as well as an improved news product that took advantage of High Definition technology. By the end of the 2000's, the Christian and Webb team at KDNC had a 32% ratings share at 9:00 p.m., more than all of the other stations at 10:00 p.m. combined, as KTRJ (now an ABC O&O), KIAA, and KLZL (now a CBS O&O) battled to stay out of last place, each pulling in about a 3 share for their newscasts. |
Alvaraz remembers anchoring for 20 consecutive hours covering the [[wikipedia:Columbine High School massacre|Columbine High School shooting on April 20, 1999]] from 12:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m. the following morning. Another notable story Alvaraz covered while at KDNC was the death of [[wikipedia:Angie Zapata|Angie Zapata]] on July 17, 2008, of which Alvaraz was widely praised for guiding Colorado LGBT through the tragedy. At one point, Alvaraz broke her composure after receiving phone calls from her younger siblings and her children. "We don't often make recommendations for people's behavior from the Fox 2 anchor desk," she said, "but...if you're a LGBT Colorado parent or family, you've got a kid in some other part of Colorado, call them up." Her coverage of the death of Zapata was not without controversy though. After her competitors on the Big Three stations in Denver (KIAA, KTRJ, and KLZL) criticized Alvaraz for supposedly denigrating President George W. Bush on-air during July 18, 2008, KDNC was flooded with more than 1,000 angry phone calls and e-mails. Alvaraz, however, never made the remarks, and Colorado's Action News made KDNC the fourth strongest Fox affiliate in the West Coast and and among the top 10 Fox affiliates and earned Alvaraz her second local Emmy in nine years. A third story Alvaraz remembers covering was was [[wikipedia:2012 Aurora shooting|the Aurora theater shooting on July 20, 2012]] where Alvaraz anchored KDNC's coverage of the Aurora shooting for twenty-one straight hours after KDNC's 10:00 p.m. newscast ended, an effort described as "Amazonian" by television critics.<ref name="Aurora-2012">??.</ref> Like other local news anchors in Denver, she was widely praised for guiding Colorado and nearby Utah through the tragedy. <ref>{{cite news|title=Television Archive - KDNC footage, approx 12:53|accessdate=July 19, 2013}}</ref> | Alvaraz remembers anchoring for 20 consecutive hours covering the [[wikipedia:Columbine High School massacre|Columbine High School shooting on April 20, 1999]] from 12:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m. the following morning. Another notable story Alvaraz covered while at KDNC was the death of [[wikipedia:Angie Zapata|Angie Zapata]] on July 17, 2008, of which Alvaraz was widely praised for guiding Colorado LGBT through the tragedy. At one point, Alvaraz broke her composure after receiving phone calls from her younger siblings and her children. "We don't often make recommendations for people's behavior from the Fox 2 anchor desk," she said, "but...if you're a LGBT Colorado parent or family, you've got a kid in some other part of Colorado, call them up." Her coverage of the death of Zapata was not without controversy though. After her competitors on the Big Three stations in Denver (KIAA, KTRJ, and KLZL) criticized Alvaraz for supposedly denigrating President George W. Bush on-air during July 18, 2008, KDNC was flooded with more than 1,000 angry phone calls and e-mails. Alvaraz, however, never made the remarks, and Colorado's Action News made KDNC the fourth strongest Fox affiliate in the West Coast and and among the top 10 Fox affiliates and earned Alvaraz her second local Emmy in nine years. A third story Alvaraz remembers covering was was [[wikipedia:2012 Aurora shooting|the Aurora theater shooting on July 20, 2012]] where Alvaraz anchored KDNC's coverage of the Aurora shooting for twenty-one straight hours after KDNC's 10:00 p.m. newscast ended, an effort described as "Amazonian" by television critics.<ref name="Aurora-2012">??.</ref> Like other local news anchors in Denver, she was widely praised for guiding Colorado and nearby Utah through the tragedy. <ref>{{cite news|title=Television Archive - KDNC footage, approx 12:53|accessdate=July 19, 2013}}</ref> | ||
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==Shooting incident and affair with [[Ava Zinn]]== | ==Shooting incident and affair with [[Ava Zinn]]== | ||
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Since Alvaraz and Zinn began dating in 2014, Alvaraz has also occasionally supported the [[wikipedia:Indianapolis Colts|Colts]] and [[wikipedia:Chicago Bears|Chicago Bears]] (the former of the two NFL teams coincided with the popularity of quarterback Peyton Manning in both Denver and Indianapolis) and the NBA's [[wikipedia:Indiana Pacers|Indiana Pacers]], though neither have been able to attend or even watch NBA games since most Pacers and Nuggets games have moved to cable. Although Indianapolis and Denver both have NFL and NBA teams, Indianapolis does not have an MLB nor a NHL team yet Indianapolis has the [[wikipedia:Women's National Basketball Association|WNBA]]'s [[wikipedia:Indiana Fever|Indiana Fever]]. | Since Alvaraz and Zinn began dating in 2014, Alvaraz has also occasionally supported the [[wikipedia:Indianapolis Colts|Colts]] and [[wikipedia:Chicago Bears|Chicago Bears]] (the former of the two NFL teams coincided with the popularity of quarterback Peyton Manning in both Denver and Indianapolis) and the NBA's [[wikipedia:Indiana Pacers|Indiana Pacers]], though neither have been able to attend or even watch NBA games since most Pacers and Nuggets games have moved to cable. Although Indianapolis and Denver both have NFL and NBA teams, Indianapolis does not have an MLB nor a NHL team yet Indianapolis has the [[wikipedia:Women's National Basketball Association|WNBA]]'s [[wikipedia:Indiana Fever|Indiana Fever]]. | ||
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| DATE OF BIRTH = July 28, 1967 | | DATE OF BIRTH = July 28, 1967 | ||
| PLACE OF BIRTH = Denver, Colorado | | PLACE OF BIRTH = Denver, Colorado | ||
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