Atlanta actress Keshia Knight Pulliam had her second child earlier this month.
Pulliam, 44, wrote on Instagram: “With this little one we are complete… Happy Birthday to me!!! What an eventful birthday week.”
She did not reveal the name of the baby boy.
“The Cosby Show” star married fellow actor Brad James in 2021. She had a previous child Ella Grace with ex-husband and former NFL player Ed Hartwell in 2017. (They divorced in 2018.)
Pulliam remains busy doing TV movies like the recent “The Hillsdale Adoption Scam” on Lifetime and hosting “Married at First Sight: Afterparty,” also on Lifetime. She has also been directing and executive producing TV shows and movies in recent years.
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Credit: NBC
Cait Martin of Atlanta made it to the live shows on “The Voice” after getting past the knockout rounds on Monday night.
Cait, who was on Team Kelly Clarkson, sang Whitney Houston’s “All the Man That I Need.” She competed with Kala Banham, who opted for The Goo Goo Dolls’ “Iris.”
Two of the coaches, Blake Shelton and Niall Horan, favored Kala, with Shelton noting that Cait hit some sharp notes. Chance the Rapper leaned toward Cait. “Cait smashed that!” he said. “It’s Cait all the way!”
Clarkson ended up keeping Cait for the live shows. Both Shelton and Chance the Rapper tried to steal Kala, who ended up moving to Chance the Rapper’s team.
Martin, 32, has lived in Atlanta most of her life.
She attended Duluth High School but switched to Meadowbrook High School senior year after conflict with the head of the theater department.
She credits her parents for giving her a wide range of musical influences. They took her to the Fox Theatre to see musicals like “Aida,” “Grease” and “The Lion King.” She saw Teena Marie and Earth, Wind & Fire live.
After high school, she began performing all over, going on the national tour of “All Shook Up,” singing on cruise ships and performing with various party and wedding bands. “Stylistically, I never really committed to anything,” she said.
Right before the pandemic, her sister died and that stripped her of her love for performing for a time. She did sing for her family on Zoom calls and only then began finding her voice as an artist.
When “The Voice” came calling, she really hoped for Clarkson as her coach given how Clarkson is so capable of singing any genre of music well, as evidenced by her “Kellyoke” segments on her syndicated daily talk show.
Cait sees herself as a pop singer, which is why she chose Harry Styles’ “As It Was” in her opening audition. “I connected with that song lyrically,” she said. “I liked the feel of it.” And much to her joy, Clarkson turned around almost immediately.
Win or lose, she said she hopes this opportunity will enable her to start performing more original music. She has also become an active voice-over artist. “I love doing animation,” she said. “I love creating different types of commercials. I also did a video game once with Jackbox Games. I got to play a witch.”
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Credit: Courtesy photo
Martha Zoller, mid-morning host on WDUN-AM/FM in Gainesville, was recently named “Woman of the Year” by Talkers magazine, which tracks radio talk show hosts.
Michael Harrison, the magazine creator, said she has “developed a national reputation in the talk media industry as an impeccably reliable observer of the consequential dynamics of Georgia politics from an even-handed, conservative perspective.”
“It’s a great honor because there aren’t that many women in the business,” Zoller said in an interview with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “It’s nice to have your work recognized.”
Zoller has been able to carve out a national footprint as a commentator on cable news networks such as CNN, MSNBC and Fox News over the years. And she has deliberately chosen to stay in Gainesville.
“It’s my home base,” she said. “That’s where my family is. I believe with what’s happened with digital and all things since I started my career, you don’t have to live in D.C. or New York.”
She also credits WDUN’s parent company Jacobs Media for committing to 24/7 news/talk in a smaller market like Gainesville. (She has been with WDUN on and off since 1994.)
And she believes she represents the conservative female swing voter that has been so important to the Georgia election cycles in recent years.
Zoller, 63, also said she has been able to break the conception that men only like to listen to men on talk radio. “A majority of my listeners are men,” she said. “They will listen to a woman. As they should!”
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