Victoria Recaño Biography
Victoria Recao is a television personality in the United States who presently works for Inside Edition. She previously worked as a special correspondent and media expert for TV Guide Network, as well as co-anchoring the 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. newscasts on Los Angeles television station KTLA.
How old is Victoria Recaño? – Age
She is 48 years old as of 2 July 2023. She was born in 1975 in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.
Victoria Recaño Family – Education
Recao is the oldest of four children of Filipino origin. Her father immigrated to the United States to pursue a medical profession. Her mother was of German-Hungarian descent. She studied ballet and music while attending Cor Jesu Academy for high school.
Victoria Recaño Husband
Recao married mortgage consultant Tom Burwell in 2001. On February 22, 2009, the couple’s first child, a girl, was born. She is currently residing in Los Angeles. The couple announced in June 2013 that they were expecting a boy in December of that year. In January 2015, the couple would welcome their second child. She announced her fourth pregnancy, a girl, in October 2017.
Victoria Recaño Career
She gave an audition for a kids’ show called Team 11 on the local station KPLR-TV when she was 15 years old. Team 11 was looking for 13 to 23-year-olds who could also sing, dance, and act for an after-school television variety show. Recaño was picked and became one of four columnists on the show to deliver news featurettes on subjects like anorexia, sorrow, separation, and the climate. She also won two Emmy Awards for hosting The Disney Afternoon.
Recao attended Loyola University of Chicago after graduating from high school, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in mass communications. She had initially planned to major in biology with the intention of becoming a doctor like her father, but she ultimately decided to return to journalism.
She began working as a general assignment reporter for KPLR’s News at Nine in 1996. She was the news anchor for ZDTV, which later changed its name to TechTV News, from 1998 to 2001. She worked as an anchor and reporter for KNTV, the San Francisco NBC affiliate, after ZDTV. She joined Inside Edition in July 2002. She was appointed a correspondent for the brand-new television news magazine The Insider in the year 2004.
Victoria Recaño Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $2 million.