Maria Grace Sansone is a American

United States

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 television

Television

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 personality, and the former correspondent/co-host of LX New York airing on the NBC flagship station WNBC, New York. Sansone also is a red carpet host for the TV GUIDE NETWORK coverage of award shows. Previously she hosted "Pop Tub Daily" featured on YouTube

YouTube

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 and The 9

The 9 on Yahoo!

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, an Internet video show that was part of Yahoo!

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 Entertainment from July 6, 2006, to March 2008.

Biography

Sansone started in television at age 11 when Mike Gallagher of WJET-TV

WJET-TV

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 in Erie hired her to host her own children's sports show, Down to Size. She interviewed Michael Jordan

Michael Jordan

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, Bill Cowher

Bill Cowher

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, Tommy Lasorda

Tommy Lasorda

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, and other sports figures. She went on to do several sports reports for ABC

American Broadcasting Company

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 Sports, including interviews from the Little League World Series

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, Wide World of Sports, and the U.S. Figure Skating Championships.

Sansone played basketball while attending high school at Villa Maria Academy (Erie, Pennsylvania)

Villa Maria Academy (Erie, Pennsylvania)

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 and graduated from Syracuse University

Syracuse University

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's Newhouse School of Public Communications in 2003. While a junior at Syracuse she co-hosted Live with Regis and Kelly

Live with Regis and Kelly

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with Regis Philbin

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 while Kelly Ripa

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 was on maternity leave.

She has been a contributor to EXTRA

Extra (TV series)

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, ESPN

ESPN

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, and New England Sports Network

New England Sports Network

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 (NESN) covering the Boston Red Sox

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. She is also a former mtvU

MtvU

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 VJ.

Prior to 2011, Maria was a contributing correspondent and fill-in host for LX NY (WNBC-New York). She also hosted the dating reality show The Match Off

The Match Off

The Match Off is a national television series produced by . Hosted by Maria Sansone, the reality show airs on NBC after Saturday Night Live. The premise of the series is to have two professional matchmakers compete against each other to find the best date for a featured single person in each episode...

 and also hosts the TV magazine In The Qube on Animax

Animax

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 channel.

As of April 26, 2011, Maria currently resides in Los Angeles, California.

External links

• Official website