What is Amanda Kloots's Net Worth?
Amanda Kloots is an American television personality, dancer, fitness instructor, and actress who has a net worth of $1 million. From 2021 to 2024, she served as a co-host of the CBS daytime talk show "The Talk," and in 2021 she competed on the 30th season of ABC's "Dancing with the Stars." As an actress, Kloots starred in the television film "Fit for Christmas" and appeared in episodes of "The Bold and the Beautiful" and "Blue Bloods."
Early Life and Education
Amanda Kloots was born on March 19, 1982 in Canton, Ohio. She has four siblings. As a teenager, Kloots attended GlenOak High School.
Career Beginnings
Kloots began her career as a dancer. A member of the dance company the Radio City Rockettes, she also performed as part of the ensembles of some Broadway musicals, starting with the Beach Boys jukebox musical "Good Vibrations" in 2005. Kloots later danced in the ensembles of "Young Frankenstein" (2008), "Follies" (2011), and "Bullets Over Broadway" (2014).
Fitness Instructing
In 2016, Kloots created a fitness exercise using jump rope called AK! Rope. She went on to develop classes around the exercise that combine dance and cross-training. Kloots also launched a digital brand featuring fitness videos taught by her.
Television Career
Kloots became more widely known in 2021 when she became a co-host of the CBS daytime talk show "The Talk," then in its 11th season. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, she made her first appearance virtually from her home. Also joining Kloots as new co-hosts were Elaine Welteroth and Jerry O'Connell, and later Akbar Gbajabiamila and Natalie Morales. The panel was rounded out by Sheryl Underwood, who had been a co-host since 2011. Kloots served as a co-host of "The Talk" for its final five seasons, with the show ending in late 2024. With her co-hosts, she received two Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Daytime Talk Series Host.
Kloots appeared on some other television programs during her time on "The Talk." In late 2021, she competed on the 30th season of the ABC dance competition series "Dancing with the Stars." With her professional dance partner Alan Bersten, she finished in fourth place. In 2022, Kloots starred as a Christmas-obsessed fitness instructor in the CBS television film "Fit for Christmas." The next year, she appeared as herself in an episode of the CBS sitcom "The Neighborhood." Kloots followed that with guest roles on the soap opera "The Bold and the Beautiful" and the police procedural drama "Blue Bloods," both in 2024.
Film Career
In 2015, Kloots made an uncredited appearance as a dancer in Seth MacFarlane's comedy "Ted 2," the sequel to "Ted." Four years later, she appeared as a dancer in Martin Scorsese's epic gangster film "The Irishman."
Personal Life
Kloots was previously married to theater actor David Larsen for six years. After their divorce, she wed theater actor and singer Nick Cordero, whom she had met while working on the Broadway show "Bullets Over Broadway" in 2014. The pair married in 2017, and remained together until Cordero's death from complications of COVID-19 in 2020. Together, they had a son named Elvis. Kloots talks about her and her husband's struggles in her memoir "Live Your Life," co-written by her sister Anna.