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Lynn Smith ('HLN Weekend Express') has a baby

Lynn Smith, host of "Weekend Express" on HLN since May, 2014, just had

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Credit: Rodney Ho

Lynn Smith, host of "Weekend Express" on HLN since May, 2014, just had

Feb 8, 2016

By RODNEY HO/ rho@ajc.com, originally filed Monday, February 8, 2016

Lynn Smith, anchor for HLN's "Weekend Express" for the past 21 months, just had a baby boy Lochlan.

She sent this note out:

Happy Super Bowl Sunday from our future Linebacker. Baby BOY Lochlan arrived last week. Tall, dark and handsome like his Daddy. And just like that...life is complete

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Smith,36, joined HLN out of Atlanta in 2013. Previously, she had been anchor of NBC-TV's "Early Today" and MSNBC's "First Look" since 2010. (Her bio is here.)

She had been Lynn Berry until she married her fiance Graham Smith last May and changed her name.

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Rodney Ho writes about entertainment for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution including TV, radio, film, comedy and all things in between. A native New Yorker, he has covered education at The Virginian-Pilot, small business for The Wall Street Journal and a host of beats at the AJC over 20-plus years. He loves tennis, pop culture & seeing live events.

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