| Personal Details Summary | |
|---|---|
| Name | Lisa Bell |
| Age / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB | No confirmed information is available on the year she was born. |
| Wedding & Marriage / Husband / Engaged / Spouse | Married. Check the full bio for relationship details. |
| Children / No. of Kids | 2 |
| Ethnicity / Origin / Heritage / Race | White |
| Nationality | American |
| Where is Lisa Bell now? | At WKMG-TV, Lisa Bell anchors the evening news. |
Wikipedia Biography / Profile Background
Introduction :
Lisa Bell is a TV news anchor working for WKMG-TV in Orlando, FL. She started her TV career as a weathercaster for KLEW TV after being scouted at a speech. Lisa shifted to news anchoring work in the latter part of her career.
Personal Life, Parents and Family Details :
- Lisa is married to Michael Loff. Michael is the owner of a video production company, New Edge Media.
- She was adopted, so had little details of her biological family are scarce. However, an AncestryDNA test revealed some details. Lisa had spoken to her birth father, Donnie, before he passed away. She later even discovered a biological half-brother Rob using the services of an ancestry website.
- Both Rob & Lisa like to surf & gardening.
- There is little information available regarding whether Lisa grew up with siblings in her adoptive family.
- Lisa is married & has two children – Her elder son, Henry, was born in 2014, and her younger son, Graham, was born in 2016.
- As her sons started growing up, Lisa got tired of reading the same stories and started making up stories about their garden gnome Norman. She later converted these stories into a series of books. She self-published her first book, “Norman the Watchful Gnome,” in January 2019.
Early Life and Education :
- Lisa was born in Lewiston, Idaho, in the early 1980s.
- She was adopted at age two after being in foster-care since close to birth, but later discovered her birth parents in her teens and more information through an AncestorDNA test.
- This test was done with several other news anchors, Matt Austin, Ginger Gadsden, and Julie Broughton from News 6, and the results were shared online and in video formats.
- Not only did Lisa discover more about her birth family’s background, but it also led to the discovery of a half-brother. Her meeting with her half-brother, Rob, was later publicized.
- Lisa attended Idaho University from 1999 to 2002 and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree, majoring in Journalism and Mass Communication, and Spanish.
- In 1991, she won the Idaho Youth of the Year award and also one for the Pacific Northwest Region.
Career, Job, Salary and Net Worth :
- Lisa’s first paid news position was as a weather reporter for KLEW TV. She got this position after being approached by the News Director of her hometown’s CBS affiliate KLEW TV after a speech at the university she attended.
- Though she knew nothing about weather, Lisa went for the position and worked as KLEW TV’s Weather Caster for three years. She also did an internship with WBZ TV for a small period during this position.
- Lisa began working for CBS affiliate WKMG-TV News 6 in October 2011. Currently, she is the co-anchor for the late afternoon to night broadcast, and has been working with the station for more than a decade.
- Before her current position, Lisa worked at Central Florida News 13 as a morning anchor and as an anchor/reporter for WEAR TV before that.
Trivia, Height & Social Media :
- Lisa was a member of the Alpha Phi sorority at Idaho University. She was an ASUI Senator for her sorority.
- During commercial breaks for some shows, Lisa often live streams snippets of conversation between her and her co-anchors.
- Lisa has a public Facebook page with over sixty thousand followers. She also has a Twitter (now called X) account with over 5000 followers. Her private Facebook account has over one thousand followers.
I encountered Lisa while working for the Winter Park Chamber of commerce. She was the most down-to-earth public figure ever!!! I knew her when she was about to be married. What a nice human being. I painted a picture for her as a wedding present. Hope you still have it, Lisa.