Alicia Vitarelli (born November 13, 1978) is a news anchor for 6 ABC Action News in Philadelphia. She joined the Action News team in October 2010. Alicia co anchored Action News at 4 until October 2019 with Brian Taff and Sharrie Williams. She currently is a co anchor of Action News at 5 along with Rick Williams and Sharrie Williams. On occasion, Alicia teams up with NJ 101.5 radio host Dennis Malloy to cook up Italian specialties for a weekend cooking show called ''A Roma Aroma''. She previously worked for News 12 New Jersey, where she was the morning and afternoon anchor for two and a half years. She was also the producer and host of ''Buck Wild'', a weekly bargain-hunting segment that aired on Wednesdays. She has also worked as an anchor and reporter for

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cable network NY1, a 24-hour channel in New York City. Vitarelli graduated from

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with degrees in communications, Spanish and theatre, and has a master's degree in broadcast journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at

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. She is married to Matthew Pantaleno. On Monday, August 19, 2013, she announced on air that she and her husband were expecting their first child in January 2014.

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