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The View Background: “Our time on Earth is so random. Try to accomplish things you have always dreamed of while you can. I know it sounds cliché, but the biggest lesson I have learned is that life is precious; enjoy it while it lasts.” Lisa Ling Kicking off her TV career at age 16 with the nationwide teen magazine show “Scratch,” Daytime Emmy nominated Chinese-American journalist, host and corespondent Lisa Ling enjoyed TV hit as a co-host of the ABC well-liked morning talk and entertainment program “The View” from 1999 to 2002 and jointly picked up four Daytime Emmy nominations for her work in the series. She is now popular as the host of “National Geographic Channel's Explorer” (2002-present) and the special correspondent of “The Oprah Winfrey Show” (2006-present), and has been a reporter for “Channel One News” (1990-1997). “I hope my desire to travel so much isn't forever because it's not the most conducive lifestyle for a relationship or a family by any means.” Lisa Ling Ling was romantically involved with Rick Yune before announcing her engagement to entrepreneur Philip Levine in February 2005. Ling and Levine, however, later split up. In January 2007, the 5' 5” beauty was engaged to ecologist Paul Song and they married four months later in May, 26. She wore a bright red Vivienne Tam dress for her wedding, which was attended by actresses like Diane Farr and Kelly Hu and Lisa's personal hero, Connie Chung. The couple currently reside in Los Angeles. One of People Magazine's “100 Most Beautiful People in the World, Beauty at Every Age section” (2007), Ling became a supporter of Ralph Nader during his presidential election in 2000. The following year, she ran and completed the Boston Marathon and was able to collect $80,000 for pediatric cancer and the “Ali & Dad’s Army” foundation during the event. She is a fan of the late Bruce Lee.
Young One
Childhood and Family: Lisa Ling was born on August 30, 1973, in Sacramento, California. After graduating from Del Campo High School in Fair Oaks, California, she attended the University of Southern California, but left after only a year. Lisa has a sister named Laura Ling, who is a managing editor of Vanguard at Current TV. Following a failed engagement to media bourgeois Philip Levine,, Lisa was eventually married to Paul Song, a radiation oncologist at the Chicago-based Little Company of Mary Hospital, on May 26, 2007 in Los Angeles. The couple was engaged in early 2007. Lisa is known with the nicknames Baby and Young One.
National Geographic Explorer
Career: Hailed from Sacramento, California, Lisa Ling tried her hand in showbiz by joining an audition for a nationally syndicated teen magazine show called “Scratch” when she was still 16 and ended up being hired as one of four hosts of the show. Within two years, she had progressed to become one of the youngest reporters for “Channel One News,” a news program shown in schools all through the United States. She would spend the next seven years with the show, during which she covered international news from a number of countries such as Japan, Vietnam, India, Russia, Iraq, Iran, Cambodia, China and Afghanistan. By the time she reached her twenty-fifth birthday, Ling had been named the senior war correspondent of Channel One thanks in part to her reports of the civil war in Algeria and and covering the sorrowful civil war and the Kosovo refugee crisis in Albania. Apart from her busy schedule with Channel One, for which she worked over 40 hours a week, Ling still found time pursuing her education at the University of Southern California and in 1996, she became a member of a joining investigation team with Time magazine into a Russian company charged of smuggling nuclear weapons. At the time, she made a distinction of being the first American TV reporter to ever interview the owner of the company. Ling also produced eight documentaries for PBS, with topics ranging from drug trafficking to her young cousin's thwarted battle with liver cancer. The films, some of which won awards, was broadcast on the Los Angeles-based public television station KCET-TV. A one-time freelance correspondent for ABC News' weekend edition, Ling joined “The View” in 1999, in which she replaced Debbie Matenopoulos as the twenty-something member of the hosting team of the successful ABC daytime talk show. Sharing the desk with Barbara Walters, Joy Behar, Meredith Vieira, and Star Jones, Ling provided contemporary age philosophy when these five women talked about relevant, routine issues and shared their daily opinions and spirited deep conversations, and co-received four consecutive Daytime Emmy nominations for Outstanding Talk Show Host (2000-2003). After three years, Ling departed the show in 2002 and shortly thereafter found work as a host of “National Geographic Explorer,” the flagship TV series of National Geographic that broadcast weekly on MSNBC. The award-winning show was moved to the National Geographic Channel in 2005 and aired under the original title “National Geographic Explorer.” Since starting her duty in December 2002, Ling has visited many exotic places around the world and experienced the global topics that are far from her pleasure geographic area. As of 2006, Ling has also served as a special correspondent for “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” Through the popular TV talk-show, she has traveled to Uganda to cover the Lord's Resistance Army and the crisis of AIDS orphans, as well as the Democratic Republic of the Congo and India, in which she, respectively, reported gang-rape and bride burning. Outside her journalism career, Ling has appeared in front of the camera as an actress in 2002's “The Divorce,” an episode of the TV comedy series “Ed.” She played Dr. Judith Kim. In 2007, she appeared as a reporter in two episodes of the series “Who Cares About Girls?.”
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