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As host of the MetroChannels' Full Frontal Fashion coverage of 7th on Sixth, Christina brings her personal sense of style to reviewing runway fashions, covering fashion trends, and interviewing designers. Before joining MetroTV, Christina was the Home/Lifestyle Reporter at New York 1 News and the Community Affairs Reporter for WNYE-TV's "Asian America." She has also worked at WCBS Newsradio 88 and CBS Radio Networks. If Christina seems to be everywhere, all the time, that's because she is. Since she joined the entertainment cable network in 1998, she has been MetroTV's woman-about-town, covering fashion shows, movie premieres, restaurant openings -- any event that celebrates New York. Her segments on the New York food scene earned her a 2000 James Beard Award nomination (the Oscars of the food world). Christina is a native New Yorker and a graduate of the University of Maryland.
As a Senior Correspondent for Full Frontal Fashion, Judy is well known for spotting trends, whether in fashion, food or foibles, well before they are recognized, and delivering them in her wry, incisive signature style. Her career began at New York's WNYE Channel 25, where she produced and hosted several series including a nationally syndicated news program for children. From there, she has become one of New York television's most familiar faces, serving as reporter and co-anchor of WNYW-TV Channel 5's "The Ten O'clock News" and noon news broadcasts, as host of WABC-TV Channel 7's "Good Morning New York," and WABC-TV's "Five O' Clock News." In addition to a myriad of MetroTV responsibilities, Judy has also helped launch two new restaurants, a resort and a shopping center in East Hampton, and has been published in Details Magazine, New York Magazine and The New York Daily News, among others. She is married to advertising executive Jerry Della Femina and the mother of a 15-year-old daughter and a 12-year-old son.
The quintessential entrepreneur, Robert Verdi has mastered the role of television fashion correspondent, just as he conquered jewelry design, interior design, and event planning in parallel careers. His commanding wit, keen awareness of trends, and sense of style has made his appearances as Senior Correspondent of Full Frontal Fashion among the show's most anticipated highlights. Robert, whose homemade merchandise jewelry designs were sold by prestigious retailers such as Bergdorf Goodman and Barneys New York, branched out in 1994 as a style correspondent for Gay Entertainment Television (GET). His success there, through probing and often humorous interviews with fashion notables such as Tommy Hilfiger, Ivana Trump and Iman, has led to appearances as a regular guest on NBC's "Live At Five," CNBC's "Equal Time," Fox News. Robert has also guested several times on the Discovery Channel and on HGTV. He remains in full demand as an interior decorator, his style gracing both Sandra Bernhard's Los Angeles home and New York apartment, as well as the homes of Richard Kind ("Spin City,"), Marishka Hargitay ("Law and Order: Special Crimes Unit") and chef Bobby Flay. Robert, perhaps, is best captured in the title of a March 1997 feature article about him which appeared in The New York Times: "His Job Title Is Elusive but His Taste Is Impeccable."
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