# Keltie Knight

Keltie Colleen Knight (born January 28, 1982) is a three-time Emmy Award-winning Canadian television personality, podcast host, New York Times bestselling author, and former professional dancer.
Formerly, she was the weekend co-host and correspondent for the syndicated show The Insider, and she was the fill-in anchor and correspondent for Entertainment Tonight. She is now the Co-Host of E! News. She has interviewed the biggest names in the world including Oprah, Kim Kardashian, Meryl Streep, David and Victoria Beckham, Ed Sheeran, Tom Hanks, and more.
Knight is the co-creator, co-executive producer, and co-host of music gameshow SUPERFAN. On August 9, 2023, the show premiered in primetime on CBS.
Knight danced professionally for The Radio City Rockettes and both the New Jersey Nets and the New York Knicks. She has also performed at award shows for several artists, including Taylor Swift. Knight has also been featured in numerous music videos as a dancer before becoming a TV presenter.
In 2015 Knight co-founded The LadyGang podcast with co-hosts Becca Tobin and Jac Vanek. The podcast has over 100 million downloads and spawned the E! television series "LADYGANG TV". The brand has had several successful collaborations and endeavors including sold out live podcast tours, a clothing collaboration with Express, and a New York Times Best Selling book.

## Early life

Knight was born in Edmonton, Alberta, on January 28, 1982; she was raised in Sherwood Park. At an early age she took up dance lessons in a variety of different dance fields and competed throughout Canada in dance competitions. At the age of 8, she undertook her first worldwide competition.
Her dancing career started before she finished high school, which eventually led Knight to the United States, where she accepted her first professional dancing job.

## Career

Knight started her dancing career in the United States as a specialist dancer and was featured on music videos and as part of a number of professional dance teams. In 2003, Knight became a professional cheerleader for the NBA team the New Jersey Nets for a period of two years. She remained as a cheerleader in the NBA and also was a cheerleader for the New York Knicks dancing with them until 2007. During this period, she also appeared on Saturday Night Live as a dancer in 2006.
Her music video dancing led her to perform with John Legend, Gym Class Heroes and Fergie from 2007 onwards. In 2009, she was featured on the cover of Dance Spirit Magazine. She danced for a number of music artists from 2007 onwards, including Taylor Swift. Knight was interviewed on a VMA after show in 2010 discussing Swift's recovery, following Kanye West's controversial appearance on stage with Swift while she was receiving her award at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. Prior to this, she danced for Beyoncé and other artists. She also spent 6 seasons as a Radio City Rockette.
She performed as a dancer in the movies Enchanted in 2007 and Footloose in 2011.
In 2010, Knight began to become more focused on presenting. She became the host of a Live Nation online music series, where she regularly interviewed musicians and attended music festivals across the US as a TV presenter. After working with Live Nation, Knight became an on-air correspondent in 2012 for the syndicated show, The Insider. As a correspondent, she covered numerous red carpet events. In 2013, she covered the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards and the 56th Annual Grammy Awards in 2014 for Insider. Other events she has covered have included The Vanity Fair Oscar Party, The Independent Spirit Awards, The People's Choice Awards, and The American Music Awards
After a number of years as a correspondent, Knight became a weekend co-host for The Insider show. At the Palm Springs International Film Festival in 2014, Knight interviewed Julia Roberts, Tom Hanks and also Bradley Cooper. In early 2014, Knight interviewed Jennifer Lawrence regarding her appearance in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. In early 2014, she also interviewed Miley Cyrus regarding her Bangerz Tour. After the release of Adam Levine's fragrance, Knight interviewed Levine on The Insider. In 2015, she had a cameo role in the movie Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! where she played a Times reporter. Since 2015 Keltie has hosted the "Thanksgiving Day Parade Live on CBS" with Entertainment Tonight co-host Kevin Frazier Keltie was a preliminary judge at the 2016 Miss USA Pageant. After The Insider ended production on September 8, 2017, she joined Entertainment Tonight.
Since December 2015, Keltie has co-hosted the female-centric podcast series LadyGang with Becca Tobin and Jac Vanek. The podcast was nominated in the People's Choice Awards for Pop Podcast of 2018.
On October 28, 2018, LadyGang TV premiered on E! with Knight, Jac Vanek, and Becca Tobin serving as hosts and executive producers. Guests on the show included Sabrina Carpenter and Ed Sheeran.
In 2023, it was announced that "Superfan" a primetime music gameshow would premiere on CBS. Knight serves as co-creator, co-executive producer and co-host of the series with CBS Mornings anchor and former footballer Nate Burleson. The quiz searches America for the biggest fan of various artists.
In March of 2024, less than two years after joining E! News as a chief correspondent, Keltie was promoted to co-host alongside Justin Sylvester. E! News airs at 11:00pm Monday through Thursday.

## Fashion

As a presenter, Knight's outfits have been regularly featured in various fashion magazines. Following her appearance at The Grammy Awards, she was featured in the Netherlands edition of Vogue. She was also featured in the Netherlands edition of Elle magazine for the dress she wore at the People's Choice Awards.
She has also been featured in the Spanish edition of Glamour, along with BELLO, People, Vogue Italia, Marie Claire, and New York magazine. She's been featured in Vogue, Vogue Australia, Elle Decor, Fashion Magazine, and the New York Times.

## Personal life

Knight lives in Los Angeles, California with her husband of ten years, RocNation music executive, Chris Knight. They live with their rescue dog, Calle.
She was in a serious auto accident in April 2018 and suffered a broken right hand. As with Mary Hart in 2009, she wore various brightly colored slings designed to match or complement her wardrobe, for each show taped during her recovery.