Tom Llamas is news anchor of American citizenship and he is a correspondent of ABC News. He works as a Sunday Anchor at ABC World News Tonight. He had got many Emmy Awards and for the reporting, he is a winner of two different Edward R. Murrow Awards.


From his biography, Tom Llamas was born in the city of Miami in Florida. His parents are Cuban immigrants and they fled the island because of political reasons. He graduated from Loyola University of New Orleans based on Louisiana. He had been the member of a LA Gamma Chapter for Sigma Phi Epsilon and he got the degree in the Broadcasting Journalism and in Drama and Speech.

Tom Llamas started his broadcasting career in the year 2000 and it was with NBC News special Unit and afterwards, he moved to go to MSNBC and he worked there since 2000 until 2005. He was covering most of the time news related to politics. After moving to WTVJ, a branch of NBC in Miami, Tom Llamas moved to live in New York where he was working for NBC News and for WNBC. He was a general assignment reporter. In the year 2014, he moved to live in ABC News where he was New York Based correspondent. He had substituted David Muir at ABC World News Tonight for 2014 Christmas period. In the year 2015, he became a Sunday Anchor of ABC World News Tonight. During Presidential campaign of 2016, he spent most of his time reporting about Republican candidate. He was criticizing the use of Anchor baby by Donald Trump and he got called sleaze when he asked Trump about the money that he had donated to the charity.

Tom Llamas had got many awards including Emmy Awards as the Best Hard News Story, Best Anchor and got a regional Edward R Murrow Award under WNBC-TV after covering the Hurricane Sandy. The first Emmy he got was in 2008 and he was reporting for the first time like a TV Journalist and about interdiction of human smuggling at sea on US Coast guard. He got another Emmy Award in the year 2013, for covering Hurricane Irene.

Tom Llamas met with his future wife, Jennifer llamas when he was working at NBC. Jennifer is working for Tamron Hall and even if it is known that he is married, there is no more information about his married life. He likes to keep things about him private and he did not have any previous affair or any other controversy. He likes to post on social media about how happy his life is. With his wife, they have two children and they live in the city of Manhattan. He wakes up at 5:45 and then he watches morning shows and reads papers before going to gym. However, there is no information about his salary or his net worth.

Last Modified: May 11, 2020


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