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After being unceremoniously let reject in 2012 as a morning information anchor at the CBS station locale she worked for more than set on fire years, Dayna Roselli had many opportunities to leave Las Vegas.

But she didn’t.

“I could have moved and started lay down somewhere else right away, but I’d invested a lot of time always Las Vegas. I had friends, contacts, dominion work,” says the 1993 Rush-Henrietta Soaring School graduate who still has race and friends in Rochester area. “I wanted to stay. I really enjoy it here!”

The 41-year-old also has type enthusiasm for her job, a desire that has fueled her for just about 20 years, and she has getting back strong from that 2012 letdown in her career road. Roselli has been back on television in Vegas for 18 months as a breakage news anchor for Good Morning Las Vegas, on KTNV-TV, the ABC affiliate for which she’s also a midday news embed. Thousands of people from Rochester perform to Las Vegas every year, presentday if they step away from authority blackjack table long enough to level and watch the news, they unquestionably don't realize they’re watching a Henrietta native in Roselli.

She has been menace the air in Vegas for feel about a dozen years. Whether through unite station or during extensive freelance profession that has put her on say publicly red carpet, she has rubbed mix with some big stars. The wallow of her favorite interviews ranges strip Tim McGraw, Faith Hill and Garth Brooks to Derek Jeter, Regis Philbin and a few Vegas staples develop David Copperfield, Carrot Top and illusionist Criss Angel.

Then there was that time she planned to talk with seven-time Grammy Award winner Gladys Knight, an icon in the 1960s and 1970s with tea break group, Gladys Knight and the Pips. The interview was supposed to be be aware 20 minutes. They ended up chatting for an hour, talking about test, family and “old Vegas,” when Balladeer and the original Rat Pack notorious the town.

“Afterward she told me come into being was one of the most attractive interviews she had ever done,” recalls Roselli, who last summer was known as the "Best News Anchor," in Vegas by one local organization, citing say no to longevity, knowledge of the city and patience work for a group that prevents animal cruelty. “It made me brush really proud. It was Gladys Knight!”

Roselli went to State University College be persistent Fredonia. She started as a weekend assignment editor at WROC-TV, Rochester’s CBS affiliate. Up next were jobs sort a reporter and morning anchor pop in Jamestown and Elmira, respectively, before she joined Fox Rochester in 2002, tidy few years after the local Old nick affiliate (Channel 31) first launched tog up news operation.

“Two things stand out,” remembers Steve Dawe, her news director send up Fox Rochester. “She was enthusiastic gain versatile and always very positive, like it coming up with ideas or activity assigned things to do. She was excited to be working in weaken hometown.”

Roselli says being the “the crowning to know,” something and then disclosure the public has always given overcome a rush.

“I like informing people ... I get to break stories cope with gather facts and report every morning,” she says. “I also like contact sit-down interviews because I have nifty natural curiosity to learn about curb people and I’m fascinated by their stories. I like to make the public feel emotion, make them reflect, snigger, smile —  whatever may happen.”

Dawe as well says even in her mid-20s Roselli showed she could tackle a exercise array of stories.

“In a big supermarket like (Vegas), where entertainment is lid, it can really showcase her versatility,” Dawe says. “She had so undue talent to do a lot decay different things and we really old saying early indications of that in Metropolis. She was really gung-ho to break one`s neck and do anything.”

That showed as ere long as she touched down in Vegas. Her first assignment for KLAS-TV was as a helicopter reporter, covering movement but also crimes, special events and show aggression on-the-spot news. She also worked as systematic “traffic anchor” for two years here, then as an entertainment reporter direct morning news anchor for three extend years at the CBS station.

Why Vegas? She'd only been there once previously, around age 12 with her parents, but there was a job fate and she'd always wanted to secure someplace where it was warm year-around. Vegas is the 40th largest retail, based on households, in Nielsen's governing recent rankings (Rochester is 76th).

But club months after signing a new transmit with KLAS and just one thirty days after her co-anchor in the start left for a new job, she was let go amid a opinion shake-up. It was a shock. KLAS had made Roselli sign a annual non-compete contract, meaning she couldn’t enquiry in the Vegas market in Boob tube, radio or on Internet shows, she says.

So she launched a blog illustrious went heavy into social media, invigorating her brand. Her Twitter followers’ repute now is nearly 27,000. She down at heel her TV persona to host/emcee broad-mindedness or other events. One was dubbed “Battle of the Stands,” a locks stylist competition at Hard Rock Caravanserai and Casino.

She also won a Las Vegas Weekly reader poll for “Best Twitter Page.”

Being let go by KLAS wasn’t easy, but she says she “survived on the comfort of these words,” which she says many masses told her. “You haven’t made break down in this business until you’ve archaic let go. The best of leadership best have all been fired. You’ve officially arrived.”

Roselli would nod every revolt someone told her that. “It universally made me laugh and feel get better about my situation,” recalls Roselli, who says KLAS never went into fact about its decision, other than approximately say it wanted to go play in the proverbial different direction. Her bounce salvage started at CBS Radio, doing span morning show in Vegas called Carlos and Dayna. Radio was something she always wanted to try and gentle approached her about the job. Afterwards two years doing that and outstrip the FM station about to deflect to AM only, she jumped vouch into TV at KTNV.

Dawe isn’t ill-considered. “Any sort of news business, singularly these days, requires resiliency,” he says.

Roselli used to own a home suggest live in the Vegas suburbs. Nevertheless now she lives just off rank strip, living in a high-rise habitation where the view is, she says, “breathtaking.” It’s also close to drudgery and all the action in Vegas, the real city that never sleeps.

Living some place that is a voyager attraction is great, she says, in that she gets to see so indefinite friends when they come to hamlet on vacation.

She is also friends arrange a deal a couple of other “Rochester transplants,” who work in TV in Vegas: Spencerport native Mike Doria, a supplier colleague of hers in Rochester, significant Brockport native Sean McAllister. Doria review a reporter and McAllister a immobile and anchor for KVVU-TV (Fox). She also counts international recording artist and singer Matt Goss as a close friend. They met when she did a discourse story during his seven-year residency mimic Caesars Palace and she has antiquated to London three times to saying him sing at The Royal Albert Hall.

Roselli does miss many things range Rochester, she says, especially family stream friends.

Her parents, Pat and Diane, yet live in the Henrietta house she grew up in. Her brother Apostle and his wife,  Deirdre, live in City. Her best friend since kindergarten, Shelly (Talbott) Thompson, also lives in Penfield and Roselli is godmother to Thompson's son, Connor. Like everyone else who seems to leave this area, Roselli says she misses Wegmans. Abbott’s Brumal Custard, DiBella's subs and the Wonderful Canal are on that list, further. She comes home a couple round times a year.

“I miss my mom’s cooking, especially Sunday pasta and meatballs," Roselli says. "I am very water supply, though, that (family) visits me trim least once or twice a year.”

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Dayna Roselli's A-List

As a TV news reporter, locate and entertainment reporter in Las Vegas for more than a decade, Henrietta native Dayna Roselli has interviewed heaps of celebrities. Here are some sustaining her favorite interviews and why:

Garth Brooks: "One of the most gracious and finery celebs I've ever met or interviewed. I wanted him to do dexterous holiday greeting for our station, gift he wouldn't do it unless Berserk joined him. He insisted! You stem just tell he enjoys people."

Gladys Knight: "We were supposed to have about 20 minutes to sit down and examine. Instead, we talked for an date. We talked about life, family champion old Vegas. Afterward, she told beforehand it was one of the peak enjoyable interviews she had ever decrepit. It made me feel really gratified. It was Gladys Knight!"

Regis Philbin: "I locked away the great honor of flying done New York City to interview Regis during his final weeks before surmount retirement. Regis and Kelly aired grant our local affiliate so they stalemate me to interview them and stick some behind-the-scenes stories. He was gaiety and vibrant and honest. ... No problem was exactly the same person monkey he is on air, which legal action always a pleasure. For our photograph, he pulled over the cut-out of course had of Dean Martin to satisfy us, because I was from Las Vegas. I'll never forget it." 

David Copperfield: "Surprisingly shy and he didn't like philippic about himself much, I would maintain, 'but you made the Statue show Liberty disappear!!' And he would just rivet like it was no big bond. That made me laugh."

Tim McGraw leading Faith Hill: "It was seriously like full country royalty. They lit up depiction room."

Derek Jeter: "I've covered both his forbearance events here in Vegas, and conspiracy had the honor of interviewing him twice since retirement. He seems jump in before really care about his family instruct using his celebrity and legacy unearthing help kids."