Following college, Spencer went into the
NBC page program, where she would volunteer to work with other reporters in order to gain experience. From there, she landed a position at the
CBS affiliate
WDEF-TV in
Chattanooga, Tennessee as a
multimedia journalist shooting and producing her own stories. A year later, she joined
News 12 Long Island. Two years later, she began to anchor overnight news updates for
WABC-TV. While there, she convened over coverage of the
TWA Flight 800 crash, bringing her to the attention of national news executives. She then joined
ABC's
Good Morning America in 1999 as a national correspondent. They lived in the Riverside section of
Greenwich, Connecticut. The couple divorced in June 2015. In 2014, Spencer was named grand marshal at
Penn State's homecoming. Spencer announced in January 2018 that she was engaged to New York
tech entrepreneur Richard McVey. Spencer first met McVey after a mutual friend set them up on a blind date. He is the founder, chairman and CEO of
MarketAxess, a publicly traded
financial technology company. On September 1, 2018, Spencer and McVey married in an outdoor ceremony in
Vail, Colorado. In 2018,
People announced Spencer’s plans to leave her job as one of the co-anchors on
Good Morning America to focus on her production company, DuffKat Media, and work on
Good Morning America from behind the scenes in a lesser capacity. In 2019, Spencer was the guest picker on
College GameDay for the
Michigan vs.
Penn State game.
Television producer Spencer was the creator and executive producer of the
prime time game show, ''
It's Worth What?, hosted by Cedric the Entertainer, which aired during the summer of 2011 on NBC. She created and produced two television shows based on her passions for interior designing, a one-hour special titled I Brake for Yard Sales
that originally aired in April 2012 on HGTV and a flea market-themed series currently airing on Great American Country called Flea Market Flip''.
Other work Spencer's first book,
I Brake for Yard Sales, a guide on how to create high-end looking rooms using secondhand finds, was published and released in April 2012. She replaced
Brooke Burke-Charvet and co-hosted the
87th Miss America pageant at the
Boardwalk Hall in
Atlantic City, New Jersey with
Chris Harrison on September 15, 2013. She and Harrison co-hosted
Miss America 2015 on September 14, 2014. ==Controversy==