Patrick Abner & Thomas Roberts

Thomas Albert Roberts (born October 5, 1972) is an American television journalist who, since April 2010, has served as a news anchor for MSNBC, a cable-news channel. He currently anchors MSNBC Live with Thomas Roberts weekdays from 1-3pm ET with Frances Rivera. Previously he was anchor of Way Too Early and a contributor to Morning Joe. He is also an NBC News correspondent and is a fill-in news anchor on Today. He has been in a relationship with Patrick D. Abner since 2000. On June 25, 2011, one day after same-sex marriage in New York was legalized, Roberts announced his engagement to Abner on his Twitter page. The couple was married on September 29, 2012.

Born Thomas Albert Roberts, he grew up in a Roman Catholic family in Towson, Maryland, and attended Catholic schools there, graduating from Calvert Hall College High School. In 1994, Roberts graduated from Western Maryland College (now McDaniel College) with a major in communication and a minor in journalism.

After college, his first job was reporting for a small cable station in Westminster, Maryland. He then moved to San Diego, California, and worked as a writer and field producer for NBC affiliate KNSD before relocating to Lincoln, Nebraska, where he worked as a general-assignment reporter with ABC affiliate KLKN-TV.

Roberts went on to become a nightly news anchor and investigative reporter for Fox affiliate WFTX-TV in Fort Myers, Florida, and later for WAVY-TV, an NBC affiliate in Portsmouth, Virginia, which serves the Hampton Roads area. At WAVY-TV, he co-anchored an afternoon newscast and was also the station's investigative and consumer correspondent. During his early career, he also was a correspondent for CBS News and prior to that the syndicated entertainment programs Entertainment Tonight and The Insider.


Photo credit Ryan Scherb / From Left: Thomas Roberts, Gavin Newsom, and Patrick Abner
Thomas Roberts is an American television journalist who, since April 2010, has served as a news anchor for MSNBC, a cable-news channel.  He currently anchors MSNBC Live with Thomas Roberts weekdays from 1-3pm ET with Frances Rivera. He has been in a relationship with Patrick D. Abner since 2000. On June 25, 2011, one day after same-sex marriage in New York was legalized, Roberts announced his engagement to Abner on his Twitter page. The couple was married on September 29, 2012.

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Roberts_%28television_journalist%29


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