Gigi Graciette is a

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and

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personality best known for creating and hosting the talk show '' El y Ella'', which aired on

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. Graciette currently serves a news reporter for KTTV in

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Early life and career

Graciette was born and raised in California to a Portuguese mother and Venezuelan father. At age 13, her first editorial was published in ''La Opinion'', a Los Angeles daily

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newspaper. Graciette is fluent in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

Broadcast career

Her television career began at

, where she was a feature and entertainment reporter for two national shows. She went on to produce and host her own television specials, such as ''The Hispanic Family of the Year''. Graciette later moved to the competing network,

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, where she became the Los Angeles Bureau Chief and a reporter for ''

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'', one of the network's highest-rated programs. In early 1995, Graciette returned to Telemundo where she was the co-creator, executive producer and on-camera host alongside Antonio Farré of the daily talk show '' El y Ella''. The show was seen in over 15 countries and became the highest-rated afternoon show for the network. Both hosts were replaced by Sofia Webber and Guillermo Quintanilla in 1998. Graciette later worked for

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, where she solo anchored three one-hour newscasts a day for Televisa's cable news network "ECO," seen in over thirty countries. She also created and executive produced a daily political program called ''Eco Expediente'' and hosted her own radio show for Televisa Radio. Since 2002, Graciette has been a correspondent for KTTV and its sister station KCOP-TV in Los Angeles. From December 2003 until April 2010, Graciette hosted her own syndicated radio program, ''Ella Es... Gigi Graciette'', which aired on Radiovisa 830 AM.

References

External links

Official websiteFOX News Bio
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Graciette, Gigi American television talk show hosts Living people American people of Portuguese descent American people of Venezuelan descent Television personalities from California Journalists from California Year of birth missing (living people)