PERSON: Gio Benitez

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Giovani “Gio” Benitez (born October 29, 1985) is an American broadcast journalist and correspondent for ABC News, who appears on Good Morning America, World News Tonight, 20/20, and Nightline. He also hosts the Fusion collaboration version of Nightline. He has won three television news Emmy awards. On April 9, 2020, he was promoted to Transportation Correspondent, operating from New York and D.C..

On September 8, 2020, he hosted a special season finale for the sixteenth season of the ABC program What Would You Do?.

Benitez was born in Miami to a family who immigrated to the United States from Cuba. He graduated from Miami Coral Park High School in 2004; and in 2008, graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in anthropology and sociology from Florida International University. He is bilingual in English and Spanish.

Benitez is openly gay; he became engaged to his partner Tommy DiDario on September 17, 2015, in Paris. They married in a Miami ceremony on April 16, 2016. DiDario is a fitness trainer and Instagram influencer who has also appeared on television shows, including Rachael Ray.

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