Lara Spencer Biography
Lara Spencer is a television host from the United States. She is best known as the co-host of ABC’s Good Morning America. She is also a Nightline and ABC News correspondent. Other ABC anchors include Forrest Sawyer, Joan Lunden, Jim Avila, Joan Lunden, Cecily Tynan, Robin Roberts, George Stephanopoulos, Michael Strahan, Ginger Zee, David Muir, Amy Robach, Kendis Gibson, Diane Macedo, Janai Norman, Rob Nelson, Paula Faris, and Reena Ninan.
Lara Spencer Age
Lara is 52 years old as of 2021. She was born Lara Christine Von Seelen on 19 June 1969 in Garden City, New York, United States.
Lara Spencer Height
Spencer stands at a height of 5 Feet 9 Inches(1.77 m).
Lara Spencer Education
In 1987, she graduated from Garden City High School. She was a nationally ranked competitive diver who attended Penn State University on an athletic scholarship for springboard and platform diving. In 1991, her senior year, she was named an All-American Athlete and graduated with a degree in broadcast journalism.
Lara Spencer Family
Spencer grew up in the Garden City, Long Island, New York suburb of Garden City, the daughter of Richard Ernest and Carolyn von Seelen.
Lara Spencer Husband
Spencer and Rick McVey have been married since 2018. On September 30, 2000, she married former CNNfn journalist David Haffenreffer in an Episcopal ceremony at St. Andrew’s Dune Church. Kate, born in 2004, and Duff, born on January 22, 2002, are the couple’s two children. They lived in Greenwich, Connecticut, in the Riverside neighborhood. The couple announced their separation in March 2015, and they divorced in June 2015.
Lara Spencer Production
Spencer was the creator and executive producer of It’s Worth What?, a prime-time game show hosted by Cedric the Entertainer that aired on NBC during the summer of 2011. She created and produced two television shows based on her passions for interior design: a one-hour special titled I Brake for Yard Sales, which aired on HGTV in April 2012, and a flea market-themed series called Flea Market Flip, which is currently airing on Great American Country.
Lara Spencer Books
Spencer’s first book, I Brake for Yard Sales, was published and released in April 2012. It is a guide on how to create high-end-looking rooms using secondhand finds. On September 15, 2013, she co-hosted the 87th Miss America pageant with Chris Harrison at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in place of Brooke Burke-Charvet. On September 14, 2014, she and Harrison co-hosted Miss America 2015. Spencer’s second book, Flea Market Fabulous: Designing Gorgeous Rooms with Vintage Treasures, is a design guide for rooms and homes that was published on September 16, 2014.
Lara Spencer Net Worth
Spencer has an estimated net worth of $10 million.
Lara Spencer Salary
Spencer earns an annual salary of $3 million.
Lara Spencer Career
Following college, Spencer joined the NBC page program, where she volunteered to work alongside other reporters to gain experience. She then got a job at CBS affiliate WDEF-TV in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where she “was literally a one-man band,” working as a reporter, producer, editor, photographer, and news van driver. She joined News 12 Long Island a year later. She was anchoring the 3 a.m. newscast for WABC-TV two years later. She covered the TWA Flight 800 crash while there, which was considered her big break. In 1999, she became a national correspondent for ABC’s Good Morning America.
Spencer was named grand marshal at Penn State’s homecoming in 2014. She hosted the limited series People Icons in 2017. Spencer announced her engagement to New York tech entrepreneur Richard McVey in January 2018. Spencer first met McVey on a blind date set up by a mutual friend. MarketAxess, a publicly-traded financial technology company, was founded, chairman, and CEO by him. Spencer and McVey married in an outdoor ceremony on September 1, 2018, in Vail, Colorado.
Spencer announced in 2018 that she would leave her position as a co-anchor on Good Morning America to focus on her production company, DuffKat Media, and work on Good Morning America in a reduced capacity. Spencer appeared as a guest picker on College GameDay in 2019 for the Michigan vs. Penn State game.