Bianca de la Garza
| Bianca de la Garza | |
|---|---|
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| Born | 13 October 1975 |
| 🏫 Education | Broadcast Journalism |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Emerson College |
| 💼 Occupation | American Journalist |
| 📆 Years active | 1997-2018 |
| Television | BIANCA |
| 👶 Children | 1 |
| 🌐 Website | https://biancadelagarza.com/ |
Bianca de la Garza (born October 13, 1975) is a Mexican-American journalist, television personality, and founder of Bianca de la Garza Beauty.[1][2] She has worked for various stations such as WCVB, ABC, and FOX.[3][4]
Richard Hajjar, former CFO of the Alden Shoe Company, was in a relationship with de la Garza for several years. Hajjar, who pled guilty to embezzlement of 30 million dollars from Alden, transferred some 17 million dollars to de la Garza's businesses. De la Garza reached a settlement with Alden to return what was left of these transfers.[5]
Education
De la Garza is an alumna of Emerson College.[6]
Early career
She began her television career in 1997 working for WTEN.[7] In 2001, she became a news anchor at WFXT-TV. She created and is the host of BIANCA, which at its height has aired across 20 million homes in the U.S.[8][9]
WTEN
In 1997, just days after graduating cum laude from Emerson College, de la Garza was working full-time on-air at WTEN, the ABC affiliate in Albany, New York.[10][not in citation given] She was hired by newsman Don Decker. He was impressed when meeting de la Garza months before at a meeting she requested. Decker, then news director at WTEN, recognized de la Garza’s massive potential and put her on-air in the major TV market 51 despite her having just graduated. de la Garza there was covering all players in the state capital under Governor George Pataki's administration including Senate Majority leader Joe Bruno and former Speaker of the State Assembly Sheldon Silver, scoring interviews with, then candidates, Hilary Clinton and Charles Schumer both of whom would go on to win their elections. De la Garza was first among the first on scene at the devastating F3 tornado in Mechanicville, New York May 31, 1998.[citation needed]
KGTV
In 1999 de la Garza joined KGTV the ABC affiliate in San Diego as a reporter and fill-in anchor. Quickly establishing herself as a border correspondent interviewing smugglers and migrants along the Tijuana border and the meetings of then California Governor Grey Davis speaking with Mexico President Vicente Fox.[citation needed]
De la Garza received an award from the San Diego press club for her investigative reports on an illegal factory she uncovered for smuggling undocumented workers across the US border and locking them up overnight at their facility.[11][not in citation given] That factory was raided by federal agents and shut down. She reported on illegal immigration along the US-Mexico border and human trafficking.[12]
De la Garza covered the deadly school shooting on March 5, 2001 at Santana High School in Santee California. A 15 year old freshman opened fire on campus, killing two students and injuring more than a dozen others.[13][not in citation given]
WFXT
In 2001 de la Garza returned east joining WFXT, Boston FOX affiliate as a reporter and lead weekend anchor. During her time there she would garner 5 Emmy nominations. In 2004, 2005, and 2006 she was consecutively nominated for outstanding anchoring.[14]
In December 2001, she followed the trial and conviction of “Shoe bomber” Richard Reid. Reid is the British terrorist who boarded American Airlines Flight 63 between Paris and Miami December 22, 2001, wearing shoes packed with explosives, which he unsuccessfully tried to detonate. Passengers subdued him on the plane, which landed at Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts. de la Garza reported live from the United Nations Headquarters in New York City on February 5, 2003 covering the weapons of mass destruction speech delivered by Colin Powell.[15] de la Garza traveled to Rome for her coverage of the high profile Church sex abuse crisis, the global story first breaking in Boston when Cardinal Bernard Law became the first high-level Catholic Church official to be accused of actively participating in the cover-up of child molestation by predatory priests. His resignation as Archbishop of Boston to the Vatican, which Pope John Paul II accepted on December 13, 2002. de la Garza reported live from St. Peter’s at the Vatican in Italy during Pope John Paul II’s appointment of law to a post there in May 2004.[16]
WCVB
In 2007 de la Garza joined WCVB the ABC station in Boston. As the morning anchor, then adding noon show to her duties later, de la Garza’s newscasts consistently beat the competition in the Nielsen ratings. De la Garza was at the helm for major local and global stories from the capture of Osama Bin Laden to the Boston Marathon Bombing.[17][18] Her exclusive interview with a survivor of the Craigslist killer Phillip Markoff was picked up nationally on ABC’s Good Morning America and Inside Edition.[19]
De la Garza received an Emmy nomination for her coverage of the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton in England. There she scored a world exclusive interview with Mohammed Al-Fayed in London. Al-Fayed gave candid remarks about his beliefs that the Royal Family was involved in the death of Princess Diana and his son Dodi.[20] De la Garza covered several Super bowls and World Series playoffs over a span of several years in Boston. De la Garza and her team joined Red Sox Player David Ortiz in commercials promoting Good Morning America.[21]
Movies and TV Shows
De la Garza was guest on the Wendy Williams show.[22] She had a cameo on the hit NBC tv show American Odyssey and a co-hosting guest spot on Hollywood Today Live with Ross Matthews.[23]
BIANCA
De la Garza announced she would be leaving news to start her own production company in 2014.[24] Later that year she teamed up with SONY and Embassy Row Productions to produce a late night talk show that would air in New England. Alongside Embassy Row CEO Michael Davies in December 2014. It was announced the show would tape in front of a live audience in their Manhattan studios. de la Garza signed a distribution deal with several Hearst Affiliates across New England to carry the show on Saturday night at 11:30pm. She secured advertising partner Dunkin Donuts as a launch sponsor.[25] The show premiered January 24 in 2015 on ABC stations making her the first woman in late night in decades. Her guests included Slash from Guns and Roses and Dancing with the Star's Tom Bergeron.[26] One month after premiering The Wrap featured the fast newcomer ratings success as a second only to Saturday Night Live stating “after four weeks, the new entry into the landscape has proven to be a ratings success”. Davies stated “what Bianca has done is unprecedented.”[27][not in citation given]
In June 2015 de la Garza announced her show was picked up by CBS and CW affiliates nationwide. CBS Television President Peter Dunn saying “Bianca is an entertaining and smart broadcaster who has been successful for many years in New England.”[28]
The second season featured guests like actress Elizabeth Hurley and the last television interviews of famed writer Jackie Collins before her passing.[29] Despite talks to move the show into a daytime time slot the show wrapped in fall of 2015. De la Garza was nominated for three Emmys in the categories of outstanding program host, outstanding promotional spot and outstanding lifestyle program.
Beauty and Bubbles with Bianca de la Garza
In 2019 de la Garza created a series to give an insight into the careers of those in the beauty and personal care industry celebrity stylists, manicurists and estheticians revealed all their secrets on how they worked with their A list clientele and how to get the look and similar results.[30] The show ran in 12 million homes in the U.S. on NBC Universal from 2019 to 2020.
Relationship with Richard Hajjar
De la Garza met Richard Hajjar, then CFO of the Alden Shoe Company, at a 2012 party at Bill Belichick’s house and the two were a fixture on the Nantucket social scene for several years. Hajjar bankrolled several of de la Garza's ventures, beginning with the Bianca Unanchored show in 2014. After that show failed commercially, Hajjar funded a skin-care line and Garza Digital. All together, Hajjar transferred some 17 million dollars to de la Garza and her businesses. On 5 May 2021, Hajjar pled guilty to embezzlement of 30 million dollars from Alden. When prompted by the judge if he understood his plea, Hajjar said: "I took money and gave it to another person" to which the judge replied "otherwise known as embezzlement". Hajjar returned some 5 million dollars to Alden. De la Garza, who was sued by Alden, reached a confidential settlement with Alden in which she committed to return the small fraction of Hajjar's transfers that remained after the business failures.[5]
References
- ↑ Stories, Local. "Meet Bianca de la Garza of BDG Beauty in Hollywood - Voyage LA Magazine | LA City Guide". voyagela.com. Retrieved 2021-07-07.
- ↑ "Bianca de la Garza to transition from news to entertainment". WCVB. 2014-02-04. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
- ↑ "Forbes". Aug 4, 2018.
- ↑ "Bianca de la Garza on Redefining Beauty, Raising Her Daughter and Embracing Her Latinidad". People en Español (in español). Retrieved 2021-07-05.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Voss, Gretchen (13 June 2021). "The Man Who Fell to Earth". Boston Magazine.
- ↑ "De la Garza '97 on Journalism, Beauty in Forbes". Emerson Today. 2018-08-06. Retrieved 2021-07-05.
- ↑ Parker, Garrett (2016-09-14). "10 Things You Didn't Know About Bianca de la Garza". Money Inc. Retrieved 2021-07-06.
- ↑ Nededog, Jethro. "Meet Bianca de la Garza: The woman moving up the ranks in late-night". Business Insider. Retrieved 2021-07-07.
- ↑ "Bianca de la Garza's New Show 'Unanchored' Gets Solid Ratings Start". The Wrap. Feb 16, 2016.
- ↑ "A Conversation with Bianca de la Garza". Boston Magazine.
- ↑ "Emmy-Nominated Journalist Bianca de la Garza Talks the Launch of BDG Beauty". Cheddar. Retrieved 2021-07-07.
- ↑ "Bianca De La Garza Takes Over Late Night in New England – WEBN". webn.tv. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
- ↑ "2 Dead, 13 Hurt in Calif. School Shooting". ABC News. Retrieved 2021-07-07.
- ↑ "Bianca de la Garza". WrapWomen. Retrieved 2021-07-07.
- ↑ "Video: Feb. 5, 2003: Colin Powell on WMD". ABC News. Retrieved 2021-07-07.
- ↑ "Vatican indicts cardinal and nine others connected to financial scandal". News Break. Retrieved 2021-07-07.
- ↑ "Report: DNA At Mass. General Confirms bin Laden's Death". WCVB. 2011-05-02. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
- ↑ Staff, Verge (2013-04-19). "Boston on edge: one bombing suspect dead, another captured". The Verge. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
- ↑ "Craigslist Suspect's Home". ABC News. Retrieved 2021-07-08. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "WCVB-TV wins big at the EMMYs". WCVB. 2012-06-04. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
- ↑ "Tracked down: Howie Mandel, David Ortiz, Bianca de la Garza & more…". Boston Herald. 2009-10-19. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
- ↑ "The Wendy Williams Show". TVGuide.com. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
- ↑ Shanahan, Mark; Staff, Meredith Goldstein Globe; June 22; 2014; Comments. "Bianca de la Garza in NBC pilot for 'Odyssey' - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved 2021-07-08. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Bianca de la Garza". philadelphia.cbslocal.com. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
- ↑ Team, The Deadline (2014-12-16). "Embassy Row Readies Launch Of Regional Lifestyle Series Starring Bianca De La Garza". Deadline. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
- ↑ Hoey, Kelly (2015-11-16). "On The Go And Ready To Conquer Late-Night". Inc.com. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
- ↑ "Bianca de la Garza's New Show 'Unanchored' Gets Solid Ratings Start". TheWrap. 2015-02-16. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
- ↑ Nededog, Jethro. "Meet Bianca de la Garza: The woman moving up the ranks in late-night". Business Insider. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
- ↑ Gilbert, Sophie (2021-06-26). "The Soft Radicalism of Erotic Fiction". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
- ↑ "Beauty and Bubbles (2019)". IMDb. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
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