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Dayna Devon
Devon at the 2007 Academy Awards
Born	February 21, 1970 (1970-02-21) (age 40) San Antonio, Texas, U.S.
Occupation	Journalist/TV personality

Dayna Devon (born February 21, 1970) is an American journalist, was the co-anchor, with Mark McGrath, of the television show Extra before Mario Lopez took over in 2008. She joined Extra in 1999 as the weekend anchor;^[1] then became the weekday anchor in 2003.

Devon spent over 10 years in television news before joining Extra. She began her broadcast journalism career as the weekend anchor at KTSA-AM radio in San Antonio. She subsequently was an anchor for KMID-TV (ABC) in Midland, Texas, and KLST-TV (CBS) in San Angelo, Texas. In 1997, Devon joined the ABC's Memphis, Tennessee affiliate WPTY-TV as a reporter. The following year, she was promoted to anchor of the stations three news broadcasts. In 1998, Devon and her news team were awarded a "Best Live Broadcast" Emmy Award. Devon also appeared as an interviewer in "Monty Python's Personal Best" (2006 PBS).

Personal life

Devon graduated from Alamo Heights High School in the suburb of Alamo Heights located in San Antonio (her birthplace). Her classmates included fashion designer Marisol Deluna and guitarist Clay Tarver. She also attended Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas and graduated from the University of Texas at San Antonio.

She is married to plastic surgeon Dr. Brent Moelleken and live in Los Angeles. They have two children, a daughter, Emmi-Reese, born on September 2, 2005, and a son, Cole Brent, born on January 5, 2007.

In January of 2009, Devon became an on-air presenter on HSN, representing the Sensa Weight-Loss System. She also had a regular blog on hsn.com.

Since Fall 2009, Devon has moved to ShopNBC regularly presenting Sensa (weight loss system) in multiple Our Top Value presentations.

Notes

References

• Dayna Devon, Co-host, ExtraTV. Retrieved on 2006-08-06.

External links

• Dayna Devon at the Internet Movie Database Retrieved on 2006-08-06.