Oct 21, 2019
Longtime
reporter, reality TV producer and Emmy winner Tanya
McRae has lots of fun stories to tell on this
week’s Breakfast All Day A La Carte. Tanya talks
about growing up in New York City with
politically active parents who prepped her for what to do when they
got arrested at protests; the challenges of
being biracial and 6 feet tall at age 13
in Cambridge, Mass.; beginning her career in
television at ABC News (she sent out 200 tapes and
resumes — this was 1989!), her work as a producer and casting
director on a wide variety of talk shows and reality
shows (and the bad behavior she saw) including
“Hideous Houses,” “Tattoo Rescue: LA” and “I Got Married at Spring
Break,” and her brief time as an
actress on series including “General Hospital.” She
also discusses the craziness of working at the tabloid
TV show “Hard Copy” and her current gig
at Spectrum News 1. Tanya is hilarious and
thoughtful. Hope you enjoy.