Bianca de la Garza

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Bianca de la Garza
EducationBroadcast journalism
Alma mater Emerson College
OccupationJournalist
Years active1997–current
TelevisionBianca
SpouseDavid Wade (1997-2009)
Children1
Website biancadelagarza.com

Bianca de la Garza is an American journalist, television personality, and founder of BDG Beauty. [1] [2] She has worked for WCVB, ABC, and Fox, among other television outlets. [3] [4]

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Education

De la Garza is an alumna of Emerson College. [5]

Early career

She began her television career in 1997 working for WTEN. [6] In 2001, she became a news anchor at WFXT-TV. She created and is the host of the syndicated show Bianca. [7] [8]

WTEN

In 1997, days after graduating from Emerson College, de la Garza was working full-time on-air at WTEN, the ABC affiliate in Albany, New York. [9] [ failed verification ] She was hired by WTEN news director Don Decker. De la Garza covered politics during Governor George Pataki's administration including Senate Majority leader Joe Bruno and former Speaker of the State Assembly Sheldon Silver, interviewing then-candidates Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer. De la Garza provided on-site coverage of the effectss of an F3 tornado in Mechanicsville, New York, New York on 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. 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 ]

She 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. [10] [ failed verification ] That factory was raided by federal agents and shut down. She reported on illegal immigration along the US-Mexico border and human trafficking. [11]

De la Garza covered the deadly school shooting on March 5, 2001, at Santana High School in Santee, California. [12] [ failed verification ]

WFXT

In 2001 de la Garza returned east, joining Boston Fox affiliate WFXT as a reporter and lead weekend anchor. During her time there she garnered 5 Emmy nominations. In 2004, 2005, and 2006 she was nominated for outstanding anchoring. [13]

In December 2001, she followed the trial and conviction of the "Shoe Bomber" Richard Reid, a British terrorist who boarded American Airlines Flight 63 between Paris and Miami December 22, 2001. 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. [14] She traveled to Rome for her coverage of the Catholic Church sexual abuse cases.[ citation needed ]

WCVB

In 2007 de la Garza joined WCVB the ABC station in Boston. As the morning anchor, then adding noon show to her duties. She was at the helm for major local and global stories from the capture of Osama bin Laden to the Boston Marathon bombing. [15] [16] Her exclusive interview with a survivor of the Craigslist killer Philip Markoff was picked up nationally on ABC's Good Morning America and Inside Edition. [17]

De la Garza received an Emmy nomination for her coverage of the Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton in England. There she scored a world exclusive interview with Mohamed Al-Fayed in London, who gave candid remarks about his beliefs that the Royal Family was involved in the death of Princess Diana and his son Dodi. [18] [ failed verification ] De la Garza covered several Super Bowls and World Series playoffs over a span of several years in Boston. She and her team joined Red Sox Player David Ortiz in commercials promoting Good Morning America. [19] [ failed verification ]

TV shows

De la Garza was guest on the Wendy Williams show. [20] She had a cameo on the hit NBC TV show American Odyssey and a co-hosting guest spot on Hollywood Today Live with Ross Mathews. [21]

Bianca Unanchored

De la Garza announced she would be leaving news media to start her own production company in 2014. [22] Later that year she teamed up with Sony and Embassy Row Productions to produce a late night talk show to air in New England. It was announced the show would tape in front of a live audience in their Manhattan studios. She signed a distribution deal with several Hearst affiliates in New England to carry the show on Saturday night at 11:30pm. She secured Dunkin' Donuts as a launch sponsor. [23] The show premiered January 24 in 2015 on ABC stations as Bianca Unanchored. Her guests included Slash from Guns N' Roses and Dancing with the Stars' Tom Bergeron. [24] One month after the premier, The Wrap stated "after four weeks, the new entry into the landscape has proven to be a ratings success." [25]

In June 2015, it was announced that the show, the title of which had now been shortened to Bianca, had been picked up by CBS and CW affiliates. [26]

The second season included guest Elizabeth Hurley and the last television interviews of writer Jackie Collins before her death. [27] Despite talks to move the show to daytime[ citation needed ] 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.[ citation needed ]

Beauty & Bubbles

In 2019 de la Garza created a talk show on the careers of those in the beauty and personal care industry, where celebrity stylists, manicurists and estheticians revealed how they worked with their A list clientele. [28]

Newsmax

In 2021, de la Garza appeared as a guest host on Newsmax, and in January 2022, she announced she would co-anchor the midday show John Bachman Now. [29] She has since become the host of Newsline. [30]

Business ventures funded by Richard Hajjar

Beginning in 2014, Richard Hajjar, then the CFO of Alden Shoe Company, provided funding for several business ventures started by de la Garza, starting with the Bianca Unanchored show, then a skin-care line, and in 2019, a media company that produced Beauty & Bubbles and a reality TV docuseries. [31] Hajjar gave de la Garza and her business enterprises over $17 million. [32] By late 2019, Alden discovered Hajjar appeared to have been embezzling money from the company. [33] [34] [31] Alden sued Hajjar, de la Garza, and de la Garza's businesses BDG Enterprises and Lucky Gal Productions in 2020, seeking to recover the money. [34] In 2021, Hajjar plead guilty to wire fraud, unlawful monetary transactions, and filing a false tax return. [31] [35] [36] That same year, De la Garza reached a confidential settlement with the company. [31]

Personal life

De la Garza met newscaster David Wade when they worked in Albany, New York for competing stations. They married and then had a daughter in 2005. [37] In 2009, de la Garza and Wade announced the end of their marriage. [38]

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