Date of Birth
25 June 1962,
Midland, Texas, USA
Date of Death
18 July 2002, Dallas, Texas, USA (brain cancer)
Mini Biography
Born in Midland, Paula McClure moved to Dallas as a young child. Her television debut came at age 11, when she began making regular appearances on a weekly WFAA children's program called Gunnysack. She graduated from Kimball High School in 1980 and began her broadcast career in Dallas working as an anchor and weather reporter for KDFW-TV (Channel 4) while studying broadcast journalism at Southern Methodist University. After graduating in the mid-1980s, she stayed with the station, hosting her own talk show, Tuning in With Paula McClure. She then left Dallas to take a job with Entertainment Tonight as a celebrity correspondent. Later, Ms. McClure became a fashion correspondent for The Home Show, a national morning show on the ABC network. Among her many affiliate jobs, she served as a co-host at Los Angeles television stations. She also appeared on several nationally syndicated shows, including Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. Ms. McClure returned to Dallas in 1996 and took a morning job at WFAA as a co-host of Good Morning Texas on WFAA-TV (Channel 8) for nearly three years in the late 1990s.
Spouse
| Hugh G. Robinson |
(? - ?) (divorced) |
Trivia
Known in the Dallas area as a co-host of "Good Morning Texas" on WFAA-TV for nearly three years in the late 1990s, McClure had a successful broadcasting career that included a stint on "Entertainment Tonight."
Won an Emmy Award for an interview with Barbara Walters while she was hosting Good Morning Texas.
During the 1979-80 school year at Kimball High School, which at the time was predominatley anglo, Paula McClure became the first African-American Home-Coming Queen.
Mike McClure, Leigh \x26amp; Paula (Craig) ...
Holly McClure, signed her books at ...
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