Charly Arnolt is an American personality who began her featured professional work as a WWE announcer. She later switched to sports broadcasting and became a television personality working for the multimedia platform OutKick. When she was a WWE announcer, she had the ring name Charly Caruso.
Charly Arnolt Net Worth
Charly Arnolt is earning $74,000 annually as of 2019. She is estimated to have a net worth of $1 million as of 2024, and also, according to an Instagram spokesperson, $1,270.50-$2,117.50 per post on her official Instagram account. Besides working for the media industry, she has been featured in magazines and websites like Vogue, GQ, Men’s Health, Cosmopolitan, USA Today, and Pop Sugar.
| Net Worth: | $1 Million |
|---|---|
| Real Name: | Charly Arnolt |
| Birth Date: | July 14, 1987 |
| Age (as of 2024): | 36 Years |
| Birth Place: | Indianapolis, Indiana, United States |
| Height: | 1.57 m (5 ft 2 in) |
| Boyfriend/Husband: | – |
Early Life
Charly Arnolt was born on 14th July 1987 in Indianapolis, Indiana, and her parents are of Italian descent. Since childhood, she has had a passion and love for sports, and she used to play softball and volleyball and do gymnastics.
Charly hoped to appear in the Olympics as a gymnast but had to retire from her sports career because of injuries. She used to play volleyball and aspired to play the sport at the collegiate level but was later obstructed by her height.
Charly received her college degree in broadcast journalism from American University in 2010. Before that, she went to North Central High School. Her loving and caring parents, Charlene May Arnolt and Michael Ian Arnolt, raised her.
Rise to Fame [Early Journalism Career]
Charly Arnolt began her journalism career in 2010 when she joined WSAZ-TV as a reporter in Huntington, West Virginia. She then moved to Indianapolis to work as a freelance reporter.
After that, she worked for WXIN “Fox 59.” in 2011, she shifted from her regular freelancing work to WDAF-TV “Fox 4” in Kansas City, Missouri. She worked for nearly two years. In 2014, she became a sportscaster and anchor working for WXIN. Before joining the media industry as a broadcaster and reporter, she was a job shadow for CBS Affiliate WISH-TV.
She had other roles like Disk Jockey at WJEL-FM 89.3, volunteer at iThemba Lethu Group Home, an editorial intern at Sister 2 Sister Magazine, a staff member at American Television (ATV), intern at Fox-owned KRIV-TV, WTTG-TV, etc. Indeed, she began working in 2004.
ESPN
Charly worked for ESPN from 2018 to 2023 and joined OutKick in April 2023. On 27th April 2024, she was announced to be the first female ring announcer in UFC history. She has covered all kinds of sports, including the NFL and NBA. She has also stepped into the professional line of standup comedy, but only for leisure.
She was also part of the backstage announce crew. She worked for WWE and ESPN simultaneously and was later offered to work as a full-time employee for ESPN in 2021, ending her WWE five-year career tenure. She has appeared on the popular shows of ESPN including First Take and SportsNation.
Charly Arnolt, who was given the job at WWE through her friend Tony Khan, had no job opening for herself earlier. But after Brandi Rhodes left WWE in May 2016, she got the chance to enter the WWE. There, she adopted the name Charly Caruso and became the ring announcer.
Soon, Charly began working for all the segments of WWE, from ring announcer to event host and interviewer. She would cover the USA Network, WWE Network, YouTube, and social media segments.
While working for ESPN [beginning in 2018], she worked for SportsCenter, “First Take, Her Take” podcast, and worked for SportsNation on ESPN+ and other segments. Then, in April 2023, she joined OutKick after leaving ESPN.
Personal Life
Charly Arnolt never married her whole life. She is single, might have connections, and has been hitched in the past but has not revealed the details.
Social Media
Charly Arnolt is available on Instagram with a verified handle name – charlyontv. She has 889K followers, 1,571 following members, and 1,914 posts. She has appeared on the cover page of the magazines MAXIM and RESIDENT.
She has thanked her fans and the public for the same and her achievements so far, posting the images of cover pages on Instagram. She is available on Facebook with the same name but inactive after 2021. There, she has 29K followers and one following member. On LinkedIn, she goes by Charly Arnolt and has 500+ connections and 1,256 followers.
