Victoria Recaño (born July 2, 1975 in
St. Louis, Missouri) is an American television personality currently working for
Inside Edition. Her previous jobs including being a special correspondent and media expert for
TV Guide Network and co-anchoring the 6 pm and 10 pm news on Los Angeles television station
KTLA
KTLA (channel 5) is a television station in Los Angeles, California, United States, serving as the West Coast flagship of The CW. It is the largest directly owned property of the network's majority owner, Nexstar Media Group, and is the seco ...
. She did that work from September 14, 2009 until late May 2010, when she left the show without any announcement by either her or KTLA. Prior to co-anchoring for KTLA, she was a correspondent and host on ''
The Insider''.
Biography
Recaño is the oldest of four children and is of
Filipino descent. Her father emigrated to the United States to pursue a career in medicine. Her mother was
German-
Hungarian. She studied dancing and piano, and attended high school at
Cor Jesu Academy.
At the age of 15 she auditioned for a kids' show on local station
KPLR-TV, called ''Team 11'', that was seeking young people between the ages of 13 and 23 who could also sing, dance and act, for an after-school television variety show. Recaño was chosen, and became one of four reporters on the show to produce news featurettes on subjects such as anorexia, depression, divorce, and the environment. She also hosted ''The Disney Afternoon'', for which she won two
Emmy Awards
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.
After high school, Recaño attended
Loyola University of Chicago, from which she graduated
magna cum laude
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, receiving a bachelor's degree in
mass communications. Her early goal had been to be a physician like her father, and her initial major was in biology, but she eventually decided to return to journalism.
In 1996, she joined KPLR's ''News at Nine'' as a general assignment reporter. From 1998–2001, she was the news anchor for
ZDTV, later renamed as
TechTV News. After ZDTV, she worked as an anchor and reporter for
KNTV
KNTV (channel 11), branded as NBC Bay Area, is a television station licensed to San Jose, California, United States, serving as the San Francisco Bay Area's NBC network outlet. It is owned and operated by the network's NBC Owned Television Sta ...
, the NBC affiliate in
San Francisco. In July 2002, she joined ''
Inside Edition''.
In 2004, she was named as a correspondent for the new television newsmagazine ''
The Insider''.
Personal life
In 2001 Recaño married mortgage consultant Tom Burwell. The couple's first child, a girl, was born on February 22, 2009. She currently lives in
Los Angeles. The couple announced in June 2013 that they were expecting a son, who would be born that December. The couple would welcome another son in January 2015. In October 2017 she revealed her pregnancy with her fourth child, a daughter.
Guest appearances
In May 2006, Recano appeared as herself in an episode of ''
CSI: Miami'', entitled "
Shock".
In February 2008, Recano was a celebrity guest model on the game show ''
Deal or No Deal''.
In March 2012, Recano appeared in the second episode of the eighteenth cycle of
America's Next Top Model as a reporter for "ANTM TV" during the first "Tyra Mail".
References
External links
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Victoria Recano official blog*
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1975 births
American reporters and correspondents
American women television journalists
American infotainers
TechTV people
Television anchors from San Francisco
People from St. Louis
American writers of Filipino descent
Living people
Inside Edition
21st-century American women