After a lengthy and non-traditional career, alexwagner meets her moment as the new face of MSNBC. Read karenkho's profile
Photo: Yael Malka Alex Wagner has no chill. We’re talking about the upcoming midterm elections in a small, undecorated corner office at 30 Rock — she’ll relocate into a more permanent space once her fellow MSNBC host Rachel Maddow moves — when I suggest Cardi B as a potential guest.
By all accounts, Wagner is a person who has worked hard to develop the skills necessary to succeed in a situation that could be seen as setting her up for failure. Maddow, the network’s biggest star, delivered her eponymous show for almost 14 years and will continue to do so on Mondays. MSNBC viewers love watching her — the show peaked with an average of 4.
In her 2018 memoir, Futureface: A Family Mystery, An Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging, Wagner wrote that she was a nerd who spent a lot of time alone playing solitaire. She was aware from a young age of how often other people didn’t view her the way she saw herself: When she was 12 years old, a white line cook asked her if she was adopted. It wasn’t the first time she was asked that question.
After the show was canceled in 2015 as part of a network transition to more breaking-news coverage, Wagner eventually landed at The Circus, a weekly documentary series, replacing Mark Halperin in 2018 after he was accused of sexual harassment. The production required intensive research and shooting field segments across the country with very little time off; she’d frequently show up to shoots hungry and be filmed shoving tacos or beignets into her face.
Those experiences on The Circus made Wagner want to incorporate field reporting as a core component of her new program. “I think every show is a reflection of the anchor in many ways, with few exceptions,” she says. This includes being a mom of two young boys — Cy and Rafael — with her husband, Sam Kass, an entrepreneur who was Barack Obama’s White House chef and senior policy adviser for nutrition .
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