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Lara Spencer Biography

Lara Spencer (Lara Christine Von Seelen) an American television personality born on 19th June 1969 in Garden City, New York, U.S. She is a co-anchor for Good Morning America on ABC. She is also a correspondent for Nightline and ABC News. She is also the host of Flea Market Flip.

Lara Spencer Age

Lara was born on 19th June 1969 in Garden City, New York, U.S.

Lara Spencer Education

In 1987 Lara graduated from Garden City High School. She attended Pennsylvania State University on an athletic scholarship for springboard and platform diving and was a nationally ranked competitive diver. During her senior year in 1991 she was named an All American Athlete. She graduated with a degree in Broadcast Journalism.

Lara Spencer Children

Spencer has two children Kate married in 2004 and Duff born on 22nd January 2002.

Lara Spencer Husband

In January 2018 Spencer got engaged to Rick McVey, a tech entrepreneur. He is the founder, chairman and CEO of MarketAxess, a publicly traded financial technology company. They met through a mutual friend who set them up for a blind date. Spencer married Rick McVey on 1st September 2018 in an outdoor ceremony in Vail, Colorado.

She was previously married to David Haffenreffer, a former CNNfn journalist. They got married on 30th September 2000 at St. Andrew’s Dune Church in an Episcopal ceremony. They later divorced in June 2015.

Lara Spencer and her husband Rick McVey

Lara Spencer Career

Spencer began her career as a volunteer in the NBC Page. She later joined WDEF-TV in Chattanooga, Tennessee, a CBS affiliate, serving as a reporter, producer, editor, cameraman and news-van driver. A year later she joined News 12 Long Island. Two years later she joined WABC-TV as a 3 AM newscast anchor. While there she covered the TWA Flight 800 crash, which was considered her big break.

Spencer created and was the executive producer of It’s Worth What? which was hosted by Cedric the Entertainer during the summer of 2011 on NBC.

During Penn State’s Homecoming 2014 Spencer was named grand Marshall. In 2017 she hosted the limited series People Icons.

She also created and produced two shows based on her love for interior design. A one hour special titled I Brake for Yard Sales that originally aired in April 2012 on HGTV, and a flea market-themed television series currently airing on Great American Country called Flea Market Flip.

Lara Spencer Good Morning America | Lara Spencer ABC

In 1999 Spencer joined ABC’s Good Morning America as a national correspondent. In 2018 Good Morning America cut down her airtime from five days to three days a week. According to a story on People magazine Spencer decided to cut back her GMA role to focus on her lifestyle brand,” producing TV shows about bargain hunting.

Industry sources said that Spencer was sidelined from GMA as it was locked in a battle with the NBC rival “Today” show for the top morning spot.

“Staff are relieved that Lara’s schedule is being cut back she treats staff badly, she yells at people and she makes a lot of extra work for people,” an industry insider said.

AGMA representative refutted the claims saying “This is ridiculous. She is the ultimate team player. Lara decided to cut back her hours on GMA to focus on her production company.”

Lara Spencer Books

In April 2012 she released her first book ‘I Brake for Yard Sales’, which is a guide on how to create high-end looking rooms using second hand finds.

On 16th September 2014 she released her second book Flea Market Fabulous: Designing Gorgeous Rooms with Vintage Treasures, which is a guide on designing rooms and homes.

Lara Spencer Net worth

Lara has an estimated net worth of $ 6 million

Lara Spencer Hip surgery

In 2016 Lara Spencer began feeling a nagging pain in her right hip and was told she had to undergo a hip replacement. She also had hip dysplasia which made her cartilage more likely to wear down earlier in life.

“It was so upsetting, I waited for a long time before I did anything about it or told anyone because it sounds like it’s an old person’s problem and I just couldn’t believe it… It was embarrassing to share and then I realized there is nothing to be embarrassed about. I have a genetic predisposition for this but if you’re athletic and you move, it’s happening younger and younger.”

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