Luisa Fernanda

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Luisa Fernanda Lozano (born c. 1970) is a Mexican television entertainment news anchor who worked for Telemundo until the end of 2007, she currently co-animates a talk show for Univision Radio and hosts exclusive interviews for Terra.com

Biography

Luisa Fernanda has been working on television since 1987, when she began her career as a host in Mexico, as well as a member of "Garibaldi" the music group, where she sang together with Patty Manterola,Pilar Montenegro,Katia Llanos,Sergio Mayer,Javier Ortiz,Victor Noriega and Charly Lopez.

Her looks garnered the attention of some model agencies, and soon, she was named one of the top fifty most beautiful women of México. In 1994, she left "Garibaldi".

From 1990 to 1998, she worked in many telenovelas for Televisa, including the international super hits "Alcanzar una Estrella" and "Agujetas de Color de Rosa","El premio mayor", soap operas which were mainly geared towards Latin American teenagers.

In 2000, she went to the United States to work at the Home Shopping Network's Spanish channel.

Less than a year in the US, she was hired by Telemundo to host the network morning show "De mañanita". Soon after she was casted to co-host the network entertainment news show "Cotorreando", alongside Esteban Arce and Mauricio Zeilic.

Apart from covering daily show business news, she has also covered live spacial events from Los Angeles, California, Mexico, New York, New York, Texas and Puerto Rico, among many other places.

In June 2007, she was fired by Telemundo after a segment in which she used the word "cherna" to refer to a type of fish (grouper), and this was misinterpreted as an anti-gay epithet based on colloquial Cuban usage. [cite web|url=http://citizenchris.typepad.com/citizenchris/2007/07/bill-richardson.html|title=Bill Richardson's 'maricón moment'|author=Citizen Crain|date=2007-07-10|accessdate=2008-05-27] Her firing was condemned by Monica Taher of GLADD and its Latin American counterpart LGBT, as well as by Ron Brenesky of Coalicion Unida, who issued a joint statement in support of Luisa Fernanda, stating, "We are dismayed with the decision of Telemundo to fire Luisa Fernanda. Her comment was not in any way offensive towards us. She has attended numerous events sponsored by the LGBT and is one of the many artists who have supported us."

After her dismissal from the NBC Universal owned network, she made another appearance publicly, but in radio. At the end of September she signed a contract with Telemundo's long time rival Univision to co-animate a radio-talk show alongside Carlos Calderon for Univision Radio called "El Colmillo", she also is one of the celebrity hosts in a new shopping channel network "SLTV" Shop Latino TV and was recently signed by the leading Spanish internet portal in US and Latin America "Terra.com" as the network special celebrity correspondent.

Was married to Mexican actor Sergio Mayer.

Link:

* [http://tv.telemundo.yahoo.com/cotorreando/ Cotorreando Homepage]
* [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LuisaFernanda Luisa Fernanda group @ Yahoo]
* [http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=c6113781eeccec5270b0f934dc83086a]

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