Rita Verreos Biography
Rita Verreos is a television host, news anchor, actress, beauty pageant coach, model, Miss Venezuela contestant, and CBS Survivor reality television contestant.
How old is Rita Verreos? – Age
She is 54 years old as of 19 July 2022. She was born in 1968 in Caracas, Venezuela.
Rita Verreos Family
Verreos and her family moved to San Francisco when she was eight years old. She attended UC Berkeley before earning a bachelor’s degree in Italian and French literature from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Rita Verreos Husband
She married after graduating from UCLA and moved to Mexico City for 11 years with her husband and children before relocating to San Antonio in 2003. Her marriage to her husband ended in divorce in 2004. On June 8, 2014, Rita married actor and producer Carl Mergenthaler.
Rita Verreos Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $5 Million.
Rita Verreos Height
She stands at a height of 5 feet 8 inches(1.73m).
Rita Verreos Miss Venezuela
Verreos competed in the Miss Venezuela 1988 pageant while representing Municipio Vargas, and she finished second to Ximena Correa of Ecuador in the 1988 “Reinado Mundial de Banano” pageant in Machala, Ecuador. Verreos has also served as a judge for Miss Oklahoma USA, Miss Kansas USA, Miss Hawaiian Tropic San Antonio, and Miss, Teen, and Mrs. International. She is currently one of the Top Beauty Pageant Coaches in the United States, coaching young women for a variety of pageants such as Miss Texas, Miss California, and Miss USA.
Rita Verreos Price is Right
Verreos appeared as a contestant on The Price is Right on May 29, 2009. Verreos came up 35 cents short of winning the first showcase race. In 2003, Verreos made his television debut as a spokesperson for H-E-B, a Texas-based supermarket chain, on the Kens 5 (CBS) morning talk show “Great Day SA.”
Rita Verreos Survivor
Rita was discovered at a beauty pageant by Survivor casting director Lynne Spillman and went on to compete on the 14th season of the show, Survivor: Fiji. Her plan was to use her sex appeal to win the million-dollar prize on the show. During filming, she lost 15 pounds and broke her nose cartilage. Verreos was the island’s sixth castaway to depart.
Rita Verreos Career
Verreos has also hosted “En Nuestro Hogar” on Telemundo and Azteca America in San Antonio (June, 2007), acted as a fill-in for the Kens 5 morning news Traffic Anchor (2008), served as a guest host on HSN (2009-2010), and as a “beauty tips expert” on Fox Utilisima’s “Hola Martin” (2011). She was the TV spokesperson for World Car TV commercials (Univision, Telemundo, 2008-2014) and WOAI infomercials (San Antonio). She has appeared in national television commercials for Safelink cell phones and Bedoyecta vitamin supplements.
From 2008 to 2014, she created, produced, and hosted the web show Latin Connection, and from 2017 to 2018, she appeared in the Telemundo series Sangre de m tierra (2017), Al otro lado del muro (2018), and Mi familia perfecta (2018). (2018). In 2019, she became one of the few News Anchors to present and produce newscasts in both Spanish (Telemundo KXTQ and KASA) and English (FOX34). She is currently the first and only TV Show Host on Jewelry Television, hosting shows in both English and Spanish.
Verreos is a former professional ballerina who has modeled for Oscar de la Renta and Victor Alfaro in Venezuela, Mexico, and Los Angeles. In addition, she appeared in the 1990 film Marked for Death. During the 2010 season, Rita was the “In Arena” Host for the Spurs Organization’s female basketball team, the Silver Stars, at the AT & T Center. La Prensa Newspaper honored her with the “Outstanding Achievement in Entertainment” Award in 2008. Rita won the “Dancing with the Lonestars” Ballroom dancing competition in 2010 to benefit a local charity in San Antonio, Texas. Rita received the President’s Call to Service Award for Lifetime Achievement in Volunteerism in 2011 for her philanthropic work over a decade.