CNN news anchor Richard Quest celebrates US citizenship with husband
Popular news anchor Richard Quest has revealed his pride to taking up US citizenship in the presence of her husband.
The celebrated Cable News Network (CNN) journalist shared the exciting news on Twitter.
I became a US citizen yesterday. Very proud to go through the ceremony watched by my husband, Chris (I am now a dual citizen with the UK) pic.twitter.com/u87LjhfphE
— Richard Quest (@richardquest) April 11, 2023
Quest, an English national, in 2020 revealed he had tied the knot with his partner Chris Pepesterny.
Through a post on social media, Quest, who was all smiles with Chris, said it was the happiest day of their lives.
“We said ‘I DO’ at the weekend. Happiest day of our lives,” he wrote. The two had initially planned to get married in March this year in London but had to postpone. Around the same time, the number of coronavirus cases were increasing rapidly worldwide forcing a number of countries to go into lockdowns.
Quest was born and partly raised in England.
He was educated at the state comprehensive Roundhay School in Leeds, and also at Airedale and Wharfedale College and the University of Leeds, where he earned a Bachelor of Laws in 1983, and was called to the Bar. He then spent the 1983–1984 academic year in the United States at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, where he was the news director of WRVU.
He moved on to became a trainee journalist at the BBC in 1985, joining its financial section in 1987, and moving to New York City in 1989 to become the BBC’s North American business correspondent. Then CNN came calling.
As per the American law, one qualifies to be a naturalized citizen if you are at least 18 years old and have been a permanent resident for at least 5 years (or 3 years if you are married to a U.S. citizen) and meet all other eligibility requirements.
The USA has in recent times been critical of Kenya, Uganda and other African countries that do not embrace same sex marriages.
Meg Whitman, US Ambassador to Kenya said while her country respects the Kenyan law, it considers countries that do not embrace LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer/questioning, asexual) as stamping on the rights of the affected individuals.
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