Lisa Thomas Laury - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family

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Jul 19, 1954 69 years old

American television journalist

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About Lisa Thomas Laury

  • Lisa Thomas-Laury (born July 19, 1954) is a retired news presenter in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Ms.
  • Thomas-Laury started at WPVI-TV in Philadelphia on February 20, 1978, as noon co-anchor and reporter.
  • In 1983, she was promoted to the 5 p.m.
  • newscast, co-anchoring it until 2003 with now-retired news anchor Marc Howard.
  • At the same time, she frequently substituted for Jim Gardner when he was unable to anchor the 6 and 11 p.m.
  • newscasts.
  • She also has done the monthly Fast Forward series, a show geared toward teenagers; it is currently hosted by Rick Williams.
  • She has taken over the African-American-oriented, locally produced Visions program (now named New Visions) from Vernon Odom. Thomas-Laury is also theorized to have been the inspiration for the character "Maria" from the Guess Who? board game.
  • Although she denies this rumor, she has admitted to sitting as a model for the illustrator of the popular game.
  • The connection, she claims, is purely coincidental. Thomas-Laury is one of a few African American women to anchor in the Philadelphia market, a group that currently includes WPVI anchor Tamala Edwards, former WCAU anchor Renee Chenault-Fattah, KYW anchor Natasha Brown, and WTXF anchor Joyce Evans. She retired on Wednesday, May 25, 2016.
  • In 2017, she wrote a memoir is titled: "On Camera and Off, When the News is Good and When it's Not".
  • She spent most of 2017 on a regional book tour.

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