CHICAGO — Longtime local Lester Holt watchers will remember the broadcaster sporting a glorious mustache when he anchored the news here in Chicago.
In a "25 Things You Don't Know About Me" piece in US Weekly, the 58-year-old anchor of the "NBC Nightly News" reveals what happened to it:
"Shortly before I left Chicago to join MSNBC, I shaved off the mustache I had for my whole career following a lazy day of skiing and a couple of beers," he writes as item No. 9.
The former Lincoln Park resident also notes, in item No. 6, that a jury instruction video he recorded in the mid-'90s still plays at the Cook County Courthouse at 26th Street and California Avenue, a phenomenon we explore deeper here.
But anyone who's been called to jury duty around here knows that.
Holt's been a hit on the national scene: "NBC Nightly News" has been ranked the top newscast in 90 of the last 91 weeks, TV Newser reports.
