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From 1995 to 1999, Spencer was a reporter and anchor for WABC-TV's "Eyewitness News" in New York City, where she covered breaking stories including the crash of TWA Flight 800 and the death of Princess Diana. But it was her nightly feature, "Life Around Here with Lara Spencer" that got her noticed by "Good Morning America,polo ralph lauren pas cher," and she was asked to join them while still working at Ch.7 in 1999.

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Spencer graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism. She attended on a full athletic scholarship for springboard and platform diving and was named an All-American athlete in 1991. She is married and a mother to a son and a daughter,abercrombie france, Duff and Kate.