YOU DON’T KNOW ABOUT
UNNY daytime TV veteran Lara Spencer has been a fixture on ABC’s Good Morning America for more than a decade in addition to hosting the series Flea Market Flip and occasionally filling in on The View. She’s even had a cameo as her newsgal self in the 2021 Ryan Reynolds comedy Free Guy. Here are ten things you don’t know about the 52-year-old broadcast journalist.
1 She attended Pennsylvania
State
University on an athletic scholarship for springboard and platform diving and was a nationally ranked competitor.
2 She likes to play tennis with son Duff and daughter Katharine, who she shares with her ex-husband, former CNN financial journalist David Haffenreffer.
3 Her favorite color is yellow.
4 She put a trampoline in the backyard of her Hollywood Hills home.
5 She has three fluffy rescue dogs named Riva, Coco and Dandy.
6 She admits she stinks at golf, but says, “It really is fun.”
7 She got hitched to New York tech entrepreneur Richard McVey in 2018 after friends set them up on a blind date.
8 In 2019, she was forced to apologize on-air for publicly scoffing at then six-yearold Prince George for taking ballet lessons.
9 George Clooney dubbed her Tanglefoot after she tripped and fell at a private movie screening — then got up and curtsied.
10
Espresso martinis are her boozy beverage of choice.