Diana Diaz is an American news anchor, who works for WSVN-TV channel 7, Miami, Florida, and co-anchors with Alex de Arms, Nicole Linsalata, Vanessa Borge, and meteorologist Vivian Gonzalez. She is also currently working at MSP Recovery as a Chief Communications Officer.

Age, Early Life, and Education Background

Diana Diaz was born under the Libra zodiac sign on 21 September 1994, in Nicaragua, and so is

28 years old as of 2022. Her family moved to the US shortly after she was born, and they settled in Florida, where she spent the rest of her childhood together with her two elder brothers – she hasn’t revealed their names, nor those of her parents.

Diana went to Coral Gables Senior High and her passion for dancing drove her to join the Gablettes, which was a National Champion dance team. She later matriculated to the University

of Florida, and thereafter graduated with a broadcast journalism degree. Diana was also a member of the dance club Dazzler and also served as the vice president of Alpha Delta Pi Sorority.

Interests

Diana is an outdoorsy person who enjoys camping, and taking long walks together with her family.

Her great passion for dancing has seen her teaching both dancing and cheerleading classes.

She is a great fan of fishing, and has shared that she finds it very relaxing.

Diaz is also fascinated by plays, and is a big fan of acting – she appeared in the children’s comedy theatrical production, “Fam Jamz” in the past.

She is also a philanthropist who is committed to helping the underprivileged.

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Career

Diana launched her journalism career at WUFT-TV, Gainesville, and then began anchoring at WWI-TV, Vero Beach, where she bagged the Best Newscast Award by Regional Broadcasters Association. She was lucky to join the 7 News team, and was tasked with reporting local breaking news – she traveled abroad and across the US, compiling local and international stories. She’s also interviewed celebrities, politicians and other notable personalities. Diaz later began co-hosting the acclaimed WSVN show “Deco Drive,” in which she reported about entertainment headlines. She worked together with the reporters, Mike Dipasquale and Lorena Karen Hensel, among others. Diana later joined Today in Florida, delivering news and entertaining her fans.

Diana is a philanthropist who formerly admitted that she feels lucky to be a resident of her hometown, and that she’s glad to be able to give back to the community. She donates to many local charitie,s and is a member of the American Nicaraguan Foundation, which offers shelter, food, and education to underprivileged families living in Nicaragua. She has also participated in many medical missions, toured across South America, and has been ranked among the five “Nicaraguans Who Shine Outside the Nation.”

Personal Life

Diaz is a married woman , revealed through an Instagram post, and is fond of sharing pictures of her husband on the platform, whom she refers to as ‘Hubby’. She hasn’t revealed his name or the exact date of their wedding, but she previously celebrated their seventh wedding anniversary in April 2017. The duo has welcomed three children; Demi Gabriella ‘Gabby’ Darcangelo, born on 28 June 2003, son Donny Darcangelo born in 2004, and another daughter, Daniella Darcangelo who was born in November 2005. Diana is keen on spending meaningful time with her family, despite having a tight schedule, as she’s revealed.

Diana is seemingly close to her parents, and frequently posts about them on Instagram. She previously wished her mother a happy birthday, and posted a photo of her father on Father’s Day, captioned with a heart-warming message.

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Height, Weight, and Physical Appearance

Diana is of white ethnicity, and has dark brown eyes and long brown hair. She’s 5ft 6ins (1.68m) tall, but hasn’t revealed her weight and vital statistics.

Net Worth

Diana has accumulated her wealth from her current job as a communications officer working for MSP Recovery firm, which recovers funds from Medicaid and Medicare that may have become disbursed erroneously. She earns an average salary of approximately $75,000 per year, and has a net worth of around $750,000 as of late-2022. Her career as a news anchor has also contributed to her riches significantly, and has seen her become a household name in the US.

Popular Diana Diaz’s Colleagues at WSVN

Alex de Armas

Alex is an award-winning bilingual journalist who works as a morning news anchor, and joined Miami-based WSVN in 2015. She now works alongside Vivian Gonzales, Vanessa Borge and Diaz. Alex was born in Miami in 1991, and is now 31 years old. She attended Notre Dame de Lourdes Academy before matriculating to Miami Dade College in 2009, graduating with a BA in Mass Media and Journalism. She also attended Florida University, and graduated with a BA degree in Journalism in 2013.

Alex first worked as an intern at CBS News, Miami, in 2011, before she joined WCJB-TV as a reporter and associate producer in 2012. She quit WCJB-TV one year later, and joined WBBH-

TV to serve as a reporter from 2013 to 2015. She previously worked at Comcast Newsmakers news show as a producer.

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— Alex de Armas (@alexdearmaswsvn) July 17, 2018

Vanessa Borge

Vanessa, who also works as a host of the morning show “Good Day in LA,” which airs on KTTV, and Fox News Network, was born in Miami on 4 February 1987, so is currently 35 years old. Her mother worked as a beauty consultant and accountant, and attended Lourdes Academy, South Florida, before matriculating to the University of Florida, Gainesville, graduating in 2008 with a BA in Broadcast Journalism, and an English literature minor.

Vanessa began working as a Desk Editor at CBS News Network in 2009, before transferring to NewsRadio WIOD, to serve as a reporter. She returned to CBS in 2016, then joined Fox 11 in 2018. Vanessa is dating her longtime boyfriend, Chris Paul Borgo, who is a fitness enthusiast and a model.

Vivian Gonzales and Nicole Linsalata

Vivian currently serves as a Morning Meteorologist and weather anchor at WSVN 7 Channel. She was born on 28 March 1988 – so 34 years old now – in Miami, and attended Monsignor Edward Pace High before matriculating to Florida International University to study Geography. She is also an alumnus of Mississippi State University, from which she graduated with a degree in Geosciences. She joined Channel 7 in 2005, and has spent nearly 17 years as a meteorologist and weather producer for the channel.

Nicole Linsalata also joined WSVN in 2005 – she was formerly working for CBS and KIRO-TV. She was born in Florida, growing up in Cooper City. She received both Edward R. Murrow and EMMY awards for her acclaimed story, “Hope of Haiti in 2012,” which is about the hurricane-ravaged region, 24 months after an earthquake hit west of Port-au-Prince.

Early life, family, educational background

American reporter and anchor Suzanne Lisa ‘Suzy’ Kolber was born on 14 May 1964, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, where she was raised in a traditional Jewish household by her mother Sandra Kolber and father Gene Kolber. She was enrolled at Sandy Run Middle School located in Dresher, Pennsylvania, and when Suzy was ten years old, she claimed a spot on their football team, but had to quit due to her parents’ unhappiness regarding the situation. She matriculated from Pennsylvania’s Upper Dublin High School in 1982, before studying for a Bachelor of Arts degree in telecommunications at the University of Miami, graduating in 1986.

Suzy is best known for being an ESPN co-producer, sideline reporter, and sportscaster.

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Career

Between 1984 and 1986, while she was still studying, Suzy worked as a sports director in Coral Gables, Florida at Dynamic Cable. She was also on her university’s water ski team. After graduating in 1986, she worked as a videotape co-ordinator at CBS Sports in New York City.

Suzy produced Miami’s WTVJ-TV afternoon sportscast from 1985 to 1989. In 1988, the show won a Sports Emmy. Remaining in Miami, she freelanced for WPLG-TV as a specials producer. From 1988 to 1990 she produced the magazine show in Miami, Florida “Greyhound Racing America” and from 1990 to 1991 she produced another magazine show, this time in Irving, Texas, entitled “Cowboys Special Edition.” Her freelance assignments in 1991 included work as a sports specials producer in Miami for WCIX-TV; a producer and reporter in Greenwich, Connecticut for Breeders’ Cup Newsfeed; a director and producer for NFL Films and as a field producer in New York City for Inside Edition. From December 1991 to 1993 she worked as a weekday feature reporter and weekend sports anchor in West Palm Beach, Florida at WPEC-TV, then transferred to ESPN in 1993.

When ESPN2 originally launched on 1 October 1993, Suzy was one of their first anchors on “SportsNight.” In 1995 and the following year, she was a reporter on “College Game Day,” a co-host of the X Games, and an anchor on “SportsCenter.” She also hosted “SportsFigures,” which teaches physics and math, using analogies of sports celebrities.

She left them three years later in favor of a job at Fox Sports, however, in late 1999, she returned to ESPN where she remains to this day. Throughout her career so far, Suzy has covered a range of assignments from Grand Slam tennis tournaments to the 1996 ESPN X Games bicycle-stunt events, and National Football League games – she hosted the “NFL Matchup” during the 1999 to 2003 NFL seasons.

On 20 December 2003, Suzy was covering the Jets game in New York and interviewing retired Jets quarterback Joe Namath. Twice in their interview, Joe said he wanted to kiss Suzy, and that he, ‘couldn’t care less about the team strugg-a-ling.’ Suzy was courteous and replied, ‘Thanks, Joe. I’ll take that as a huge compliment.’ After the event and backlash, Joe apologized for his comments, and said it was due to his intoxication, and followed his apology by entering an outpatient program to help people suffering from alcoholism. When he felt better, Joe published a book entitled “Namath” that explored his struggles with alcohol addiction, and in which he recalled how embarrassed he felt when he watched the interview – that has helped him maintain his sobriety.

In a 2013 interview, Suzy expressed that she believed Joe wasn’t a bad person, he just did a bad thing, ‘And that turned out to be the silver lining of his life.’ The following day, almost everybody wanted an interview with her to ask about the situation, but ‘… I just sort of rolled my eyes and thought, ‘That’s the end of that…’ we laughed about it.’

Iconic stadium meets stylish brand! Awesome to be at Lambeau Field with the Hall of Famers!#WHBM #LambeauField pic.twitter.com/ZrIYYKwF5q

— Suzy Kolber (@SuzyKolber) September 21, 2021

From 2001 to 2005, she worked on “ESPN’s Sunday Night Football”, and in 2004 she was added to Sports Business Daily’s 10 favorite sports television personalities list for the past decade. From 2004 to 2006, she led the analysis segment on day one, and hosted the day two telecast of the annual NFL Draft. That time period also saw Suzy being a studio and on-site anchor for the French Open tennis, and as a SportsCenter anchor during the NFL off-season. 2006 marked the inaugural year “Monday Night Football” (MNF) chose new members of the show; Suzy got a position there. Her hard work brought forth an increase in viewership, and “MNF” became cable television’s most-watched program. From 2006 to 2009 she hosted the on-site and studio shows at Wimbledon.

Suzy and fellow sportscaster Michele Tafoya work together as sideline reporters on ESPN’s “Monday Night Football”, and in 2006, Suzy and Michele co-hosted the Super Bowl XL pre-game show in Detroit for ABC Sports. Suzy co-hosted the Summer X Games and Winter X Games in Aspen, having previously hosted them in 1996, 2000 and 2001. That year, Suzy became the first female to be awarded the Maxwell Club Sports Broadcaster. She hosted the “NASCAR Countdown” pre-race program in 2007 – Brent Musburger was the usual lead host, but he was absent during the week of the race, who gave no explanation for not being there, but did announce Suzy as his replacement on the Busch Series and Nextel Cup studio programming. When she left there, Allen Bestwick replaced her. Suzy regularly hosts “NFL Live,” ESPN’s year-round information and news show.

Suzy interviewed Mark Ingram Jr. while reporting on the 2011 NFL Draft – her interview was criticized as Suzy read an email that Mark’s imprisoned father sent, and which caused him to cry. Viewers felt that the interview and her decision to read the email aloud was manipulative.

On 13 September 2011, Suzy and Chris Mortensen’s debut ESPN2 show together, “NFL32” was released. The backdrop behind the pair was designed to look like a sports bar, they even added dark woodwork, sports memorabilia, and wainscoting. Their show recaps that day’s events from all 32 NFL teams.

At the end of the 2010-2011 NFL Season, Michele moved from ESPN to NBC Sports, meaning that she no longer co-hosted “Monday Night Football” with Suzy. ESPN then switched to a rotating system, with solo sideline reporters such as Ed Werder, Rachel Nicholas, and Wendi Nix – Suzy acted as a fill-in so she could mainly work in the studio. After her request to do less on-site work, “NFL32” changed to “NFL Insiders.” Lisa Salters then took over as the sideline reporter for the show from the 2012-2013 NFL season – both Suzy and Lisa are producers for “MNF.” For the 2014 NFL season, she stood in for Stuart Scott, who was sick at the time; on 4 January 2015, he sadly passed away. Following his death, Suzy permanently took over as “Monday Night Countdown”’s on-site host for the 2015 NFL season.

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— Suzy Kolber (@SuzyKolber) October 19, 2021

Fox

In November 1996, Suzy left ESPN and took up a position at Fox Sports, where she was the anchor on “Fox Sports News,” broadcast on their Fox Sports Net channel. Suzy was also the lead anchor on “NFL on Fox.” During a 1998 NFL game, John Madden and Pat Summerall joined her as co-hosts. She was also the studio host for “NHL on Fox,” and covered the 1999 Stanley Cup Play-offs and Finals.

In March 1999, Suzy and Maury Povich co-hosted “Opening the Lost Tombs: Live from Egypt,” a non-sports archaeological show that unveiled ‘five-thousand year-old mysteries.’ Fox was the first production to showcase a live excavation on Egypt’s ancient Giza plateau, and during excavations, Suzy was live-reporting from the tomb. In August 1999, she returned to ESPN.

Endorsements

“ESPN NFL Football,” was a video game created by Sega and made available for Sony’s PlayStation 2 and Microsoft’s Xbox. In the game, Suzy’s narration of football broadcasts was featured. She has also appeared in American commercials for Pepsi-Cola and Chevrolet.

PlayStation released “ESPN Extreme Games” in 1995 – Suzy lent her voice to hint at secret areas, introduce levels and hype the player up. “1Xtreme,” the re-release of the game, had Suzy’s voice and videos removed, as were all references to ESPN.

Personal life

Suzy met Eric Brady in 2005 – reportedly at a sports event. The happy couple married in 2008 in an intimate ceremony, and Suzy gave birth to their only child, a daughter named Kellyn Brady, that same year. She asked ESPN for the on-site to studio change because Suzy wanted to spend more time with Kellyn, which resulted in ESPN creating “NFL32” in September 2011. There were rumors in 2008 that Suzy would be a single mother, but she quickly denied those claims, and confirmed that she is still with Eric. The family is very private, but Eric and Suzy appear to be happily married.

On 17 July 2013, an IndyStar interview with Suzy was published. When asked how long it took for her to be taken seriously in the business – as a woman – she answered that when her intern work began in 1985, she would often be the only female in the room, but nevertheless, ‘My whole life has been about a love of sports and competing and playing and I never felt like I was any different or outcast.” The interviewer was shocked that Suzy never felt disrespected, even by Joe or after the incident, ‘I wanted it to go away,’ she said, ‘for Joe and for me,’ Suzy added.

In 2022, people on Twitter were comparing old and new photos of Suzy, and suspected that she’d had plastic surgery on her face during the off-season so it would be less obvious. Suzy is yet to comment on these claims.

Hobbies, favorite things, and interesting facts

Suzy does her best to empower fellow women. With sports including reporting being such a male-dominated industry, she wants to encourage women to follow their dreams, and not back down on account of being intimidated.

She donates money to charitable events, and mentors up-and-coming anchors and journalists. Suzy’s advice is to always be respectful and knowledgeable about your job tasks in order to succeed.

Appearance

Suzy stands at 5ft 7ins (170cm) tall, weighs 128lbs (58kg), with vital statistics ofe 32-23-33. She has dark blonde hair with brown highlights and blue eyes. Suzy sometimes dyes her hair a more brown-red hue.

Net worth and salary

As of August 2022, Suzy’s net worth is estimated at $18 million, which is a surprisingly big number. This figure was worked out after her annual salary now averages $3 million. Suzy is one of the highest-paid anchors in sports.