Linda Ellerbee (born Linda Jane Smith in Bryan, Texas, USA, August 15, 1944) is an outspoken journalist who is most famously known for several jobs at NBC News, including Washington (DC) correspondent, and reporter and co-anchor of NBC News Overnight. She has also served as a reporter for the morning television programs The Today Show and Good Morning America. More recently she has been hosting Nick News, a "kid's issues" television program on Nickelodeon.
Ellerbee had become overweight in the 1980s, and lost over 50 pounds in the mid-1990s in a highly-publicized eating regime. She also survived breast cancer around the same time.
