Carla Romano (born 1969, Dundee) is a Scottish producer and journalist, best known for her work on popular daytime TV show GMTV Romano studied French and politics at the University of Dundee, before completing a postgraduate diploma in journalism at the University of Strathclyde. She began her broadcasting career in February 1996 at BBC Radio 5 Live, where she spent five months as a producer and reporter on the cultural identity documentary series British Like Me. She then produced A Degree of Desperation, a half-hour programme on student prostitution, which was subsequently nominated for a Sony Radio Award. During 1997, Romano worked as a reporter on two of BBC Radio Scotland's weekly current affairs programmes: Eye To Eye and Newsweek. She was also a producer on Radio 5 Live's four-part animal trade documentary series Beastly Business. In 1998 she won a prestigious Commission for Racial Equality media award for Best Factual Programme, after producing a presenting a BBC radio documentary series on racism in Scotland. Romano made the move to television at the end of 1997, when she joined BBC Scotland's news programme Reporting Scotland, where she regularly presented breakfast, late night and weekend news bulletins. She has also worked on a regular basis as a Scottish correspondent for BBC News 24, reporting and producing live items of Scottish news for the network. Romano became GMTV's Los Angeles correspondent in March 2005, taking over from Jackie Brambles. Her brother-in-law is Italian AC Milan footballer Rino Gattuso.
External links
- Carla Romano at gm.tv
