- Born
- Birth nameMaria Grace Sansone
- Height5′ 1″ (1.55 m)
- Maria is the the anchor/host of "Good Day LA" on FOX 11 Los Angeles.
She and Steve Edwards have been anchoring the show together since 2012.
Previously she was the host of "LXTV 1st Look" on NBC and an
Entertainment Correspondent for TV Guide Newtwork's "Hollywood 411".
You can also catch Maria live on the red carpet for all of the major
award shows for TV Guide Network.
She was a host/reporter for LX New York on WNBC4, where she covered all
things NYC, including Broadway, fashion, fitness and more. At LX New
York, she initiated "Maria's Pet Project" and helped find homes for
hundreds of homeless dogs.
Maria quickly gained "web celeb" status when hosting daily web show,
"The 9" on Yahoo, and "PopTub" on YouTube. Maria was also an MTVU VJ.
In addition to traveling across the country broadcasting from hundreds
of college campuses, she hosted/wrote MTVU's weekly music show, "The
Freshmen".
Maria has also contributed to
Access Hollywood (1996),
Extra (1994), CSTV, ESPN, CBS Sports.
She has made appearances on a variety of shows discussing pop culture,
such as Red Eye w/Tom Shillue (2007), G4's "Attack
of the Show", CBS'
The Early Show (1999),
Showbiz Tonight (2005),
FUSE's
The Weekly Riff (2008),
The Megan Mullally Show (2006)
and others.
She gained celebrity early in life when she became the youngest
reporter in the history of network television, (12 yrs, 6 months) while
doing sideline reporting for ABC Sports coverage of the Little League
World Series. At age eleven, she hosted her own children's sport show,
"Down to Size", on WJET-TV ABC in Erie, Pennsylvania. She went on to
interview Jim Kelly of the Buffalo
Bills; Michael Jordan;
Bill Cowher, coach of the Pittsburgh
Steelers; baseball legend Tommy Lasorda;
and others, before her 13th birthday. She appeared on
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992)
in December of 1992. The following year, Maria went on to national
broadcasts of ABC's Little League World Series, Professional Bowling
Tour, Wide World of Sports for Kids, and reported from the U.S. Figure
Skating Championships, witnessing first-hand the
Nancy Kerrigan-Tonya Harding
saga. Later, she co-hosted, together with
American Idol (2002)'s Ryan Seacrest,
Gladiators 2000 (1994) and
did spot-reporting for
NBA Inside Stuff (1990).
Maria took a break from TV to be a 'normal' kid and went to high
school, at Villa Maria Academy in Erie, Pennsylvania, where she played
varsity basketball. While a junior at Syracuse, she co-hosted
Live with Kelly and Mark (1988),
while Kelly Ripa was on maternity leave. She
graduated from Syracuse University's Newhouse School in 2003.
She lives in Los Angeles, CA.- IMDb Mini Biography By: TJS
- SpouseJoshua Guthartz(July 26, 2008 - present) (2 children)
- She and her husband, Joshua, gave birth to their 1st child, a daughter Grace Louise on December 31, 2013.
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