Lara Spencer Biography, Net worth, Salary, Is She Married, Who Is Her Husband?

For most athletes, going to college on a sports scholarship has more to do with their chosen sport than the course they are studying in school. Many of them even ended up giving up their studies to become professionals. Lara Spencer’s story is the reverse: she pursued a career in her field of study while giving up a career in athletics.

Lara is best known for her appearance as the co-host of ABC Good Morning America, a show she has been starring with since 2002. However, the TV personality has also worked for other networks, including parent network rival , CBS. She spent several years with WABC-TV as a presenter for their lifestyle segment, then a few years later, Roadshow Antique.

Most recently, she was the host of HGTV Flea Market Flip. In April 2018, the reporter revealed that she would be slowing down her GMA appearances in order to devote more time to her career as a television producer.

Lara Spencer bio

Spencer spent her life until her teenage years in Garden City, a suburb of New York located on Long Island. Lara Christine Von Seelen was born on June 19, 1969. She studied at Garden City High School and then at Pennsylvania State University, where she enrolled in the study of broadcast journalism.

Before her studies, she was already an athlete in the sportspringboard and diving platform area. During her time in Pennsylvania, she became a nationally recognized competitive diver and was even named to the All American Athlete team in her senior year.

After graduating in 1991, she joined NBC’s Pages program to gain experience and make connections within the industry. She soon landed her first job at local Tennessee television station WDEF-TV, a CBS affiliate. Here she fulfills every possible role: reporter, editor, producer, cameraman and news van driver.

After a year with the station, she moved to News 12 and then to WABC-TV two years later. Her most prominent role came in 1999, when she was cast as national correspondent for ABC Good Morning America.

Besides his involvement in more than 1,600 episodes of Good Morning America from 2002 to 2018, the journalist has appeared on many other talk shows, reality shows, game shows and seasonal films. Some of them include Rachel Ray, The Muppet’s, The $100,000 Pyramid, Piers Morgan Tonight, Gary Bachelor, The Wendy Williams Show, Antiques Roadshow, The Early Show and a host of others.

Lara Spencer’s work as a television producer allowed her to create and produce What’s Worth? for NBC. It was a game show that aired in the summer of 2011 and was hosted by Cedric The Entertainer. In 2012, she collaborated with HGTV to produce I Brake for Garage Sales, an interior design show. Spencer then followed up with Flea Market, a show that originally aired on HGTV and then Great American Country.

Lara has also dabbled in writing with the publication of two books, I Brake for Garage Sales (2012), and Fabulous Flea Market: Designing Gorgeous Bedrooms with Vintage Treasures (2014).

What is Lara Spencer’s Salary and Net Worth?

Lara may be best known for her work on Good Morning America, however, she works for other networks and even owns and runs her own production company. Apparently she has a lot of outlets spitting money back every year. According to Cheat Sheet, the reporter has a salary of $3 million and a net worth of $9 million.

Is she married? Who is her husband?

Lara Spencer has tied the knot twice in her life. Her first marriage was to David Hanffenreffer, a journalist who was once on the CNN roster. She married him on September 30, 2000. In the years that followed, the union had two children. The first, Duff, was born in 2002 and the second, Kate, in 2004. Fifteen years after their marriage, in March 2015, Lara and David announced the end of their marriage. They completed divorce proceedings three months later.

The following year, Spencer was set up on a blind date with businessman Rick McVey by a mutual friend. Rick is the CEO of fintech company MarketAxess. They soon started dating and in January 2018

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