Background
Spencer grew up in the New York suburb of Garden City, Long Island, where she graduated from Garden City High School in 1987.
Spencer grew up in the New York suburb of Garden City, Long Island, where she graduated from Garden City High School in 1987.
She attended Pennsylvania State University on an athletic scholarship for springboard and platform diving and was a nationally ranked competitive diver. She was named an All American Athlete in 1991, her senior year, and graduated with a degree in Broadcast Journalism.
She is best known for being the co-anchor for American Broadcasting Company"s Good Morning America. She is also a correspondent for Nightline and American Broadcasting Company News. Previously, she was the host of the syndicated entertainment newsmagazine The Insider from 2004 to 2011, and was a regular contributor to Columbia Broadcasting System"s The Early Show.
Before then, she was the national correspondent for Good Morning America and spent several years as a lifestyle reporter for WABC-television She also hosted Antiques Roadshow on Public Broadcasting Service for the 2004 and 2005 seasons, and Antiques Roadshow FYI, a spin-off of Antiques Roadshow, during 2005.
She hosts the show Flea Market Flip on HGTV Following college, Spencer went into the National Broadcasting Company page program where she would volunteer to work with other reporters in order to gain experience. From there, she landed a position at the Columbia Broadcasting System affiliate WDEF-television in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where she "was literally a one-man band", serving as reporter, producer, editor, cameraman and news-van driver.
A year later, she joined News 12 Long Island and two years following that she was anchoring the 3 Department of Administration and Management newscast for WABC-television While there, she covered the Trans World Airlines Flight 800 crash, which was considered her big break. She then joined American Broadcasting Company"s Good Morning America in 1999 as a national correspondent.
Spencer married former CNNfn journalist David Haffenreffer on September 30, 2000 at Saint Andrew"s Dune Church in an Episcopal ceremony.
The couple has two children, Kate and Duff. They lived in the Riverside section of Greenwich, Connecticut, before moving to Los Angeles in 2008. In 2014, Spencer was named grand marshal at Penn State"s Homecoming 2014.
Television producer Spencer was the creator and executive producer of the prime time game show, lieutenant"s Worth What?, hosted by Cedric the Entertainer, which aired during the summer of 2011 on National Broadcasting Company. Spencer has also created and produced two shows based on her passions for interior designing, which were a one-hour special titled I Brake for Yard Sales that originally aired in April 2012 on HGTV, and a flea market-themed television series currently airing on Great American Country called Flea Market Flip.
Other work.