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Lynette Romero Shares Update connected Fired KTLA Co-Anchor Mark Mester
News, weather, postulation and Lynette Romero.
On Oct. 10, the erstwhile KTLA anchor made her debut working connected KNBC's Today successful LA greeting show.
"It's 10/10," Lynette said alongside co-anchor Adrian Arambulo, meteorologist Belen De Leon and postulation anchor Robin Winston astatine 4 a.m. "I've been waiting for 10/10 similar you cannot believe. I support saying this, but my bosom is truthful full. It's exciting. It's fresh. It's a small scary due to the fact that determination are a batch of eyeballs retired there."
After delivering the quality for 3 hours, Lynette joined her colleagues for a Facebook Live and reflected connected the caller section of her career.
"It feels bully to beryllium here," she said. "And to beryllium honest, evidently 24 years astatine 1 station, I grew up there. I lived my full beingness determination beauteous overmuch arsenic an adult. I was determination erstwhile I got engaged, got married, had my daughter. Everything that I've done successful my beingness that truly matters to me, I've done successful the past 24 years surviving present successful Los Angeles. That's wherefore it's location for me."
"The large happening is I bring each of that with me," Lynette continued. "All those memories, each those friendships, each those mentors that helped maine learn…those are things I'll bring with me."
Lynette developed a ample instrumentality basal successful Southern California erstwhile she served arsenic a newsman and anchor astatine chap Los Angeles presumption KTLA. When asked astir the support she received from followers successful caller weeks, Lynette expressed gratitude for building a peculiar transportation with galore viewers.
"I'm an unfastened book," she said. "If I effort to adjacent the publication a small bit, it conscionable opens backmost up. I deliberation radical cognize a batch astir me. I can't bash it immoderate different way."
Lynette continued, "Not everybody loves it oregon you oregon whatever. Not everyone is going to enactment that. But the radical who bash truly bash and they attraction and they privation you to bash well. It means a batch and it shows you however connected we are."
Back connected Sept. 14, KTLA abruptly announced that Lynette was leaving the presumption aft much than 2 decades. The journalist's last time co-anchoring KTLA's play greeting show ended up being Sept. 4.
Lynette's co-anchor Mark Mester aboriginal addressed his adjacent friend's departure connected unrecorded TV.
"What the viewers experienced was rude, it was cruel, it was inappropriate and I'm truthful sorry," he shared on Sept. 17. "I besides privation to accidental atrocious to Lynette Romero due to the fact that Lynette, I emotion you truthful much. You virtually are my champion friend. You bash not merit what happened to you."
He continued, "All we tin accidental to you Lynette Romero this greeting is we emotion you and miss you. We are going to connection you dignity and grace, which is what this presumption should person done from the beginning…I'm going to miss you connected this acceptable each and each day."
On Sept. 23, E! News confirmed that Mark was fired from KTLA. The presumption would not remark connected the crushed down his termination.
Lynette precocious told followers successful a Facebook Live that she inactive communicates with Mark each time and said, "We volition ever beryllium friends."
(E! and KNBC are portion of the NBCUniversal family)
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