Louis
Aguirre has one of the most exciting jobs in television. He’s the
anchor of
the Fox News DECO DRIVE on the US Fox Network. He has to get up at 4:30
a.m. every day to do his job. He sets several
alarm clocks and radios
throughout his apartment
to wake him up while the rest of the city is
sound
asleep.
But for this 40-year-old Cuban-American, the
rewards of his profession
are
worth all the effort. ”This is what I’ve wanted to do since I was a high
school student in Miami, where I
grew up,” he says. ”I am having
a lot of
fun and I get a
tremendous amount of help from my
colleagues. That’s
rare in
this business.”
Aguirre wanted to be a
journalist and a writer when he was younger. But he
liked TV better than print. ”I’ve always been
a little bit of a ham and TV
gave me the opportunity
to grab the spotlight,” he says.
Aguirre has been in the spotlight since he graduated from the University of
Miami, Florida, USA. He has worked for such shows as A Current Affair,
Extra, and as a reporter for WPLG-TV in Miami. But his parents didn’t
want him to have a career in journalism. ”My parents wanted me to be a
lawyer. They are both immigrants and had to work hard in the States. Maybe
that’s why they wanted me
to keep on studying and get a
professional degree,”
he says.
Aguirre was born in the U.S. He is the oldest of four children. He speaks
Spanish and French fluently. ”I always wanted to be a top TV journalist and
to live in New York City. When I was younger,
I vowed that this is what I
would do and that New York would be the city where I would do it,” Aguirre
says. ”I really don’t see myself doing anything else or living anywhere else.”
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