Channel 2 Action News has hired a new weekend evening meteorologist named Jennifer Lopez.
She effectively replaces Katie Walls, who left in June for Spectrum News North Carolina.
Lopez has been a fill-in meteorologist the past few years on WSB-TV.
“She’s an experienced meteorologist who knows the changing dynamics of weather in North Georgia,” said Suzanne Nadel, Channel 2 Action News news director, in a press release.
Lopez has previously worked at The Weather Channel in Atlanta as well as stations in Dallas and Jacksonville, Florida.
She will be seen on the 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts Saturdays and Sundays.
Lopez has been dealing with her more famous namesake for decades. “Everybody calls me J.Lo; I’m used to that,” she told the Los Angeles Times in 2002 when she was working at The Weather Channel.
She added: “When I call hair salons, they get quite excited. They say, ‘Oh, we’ll fit you right in’.”
In an email today, Lopez said “being associated with a world recognized celebrity is not a bad thing. In fact, it’s fun. Have I ever met the other JLo? No. Would I like to someday? Of course. In the meantime, I’ll smile and laugh away the friendly jokes. I know where my talents begin and end, so I’ll leave the singing and dancing to the other JLo and I’ll keep doing my best to forecast Mother Nature.”
Lopez is marred to a Southwest pilot Kirk Simonian and they have two children.
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