Wendy Rieger New Husband: Who Was Wendy Rieger Married To?

Before her death, popular NBC presenter, Wendy Rieger, was married to retired WRC-TV news photographer Dan Buckley.

The couple got married in 2021.

Her first marriage, to Sol Levine, a CNN producer, ended in divorce.

Rieger was born in Norfolk on April 18, 1956. Her father was an airline pilot, and her mother was an English teacher and later a polygraph examiner. Ms. Rieger was 8 when they divorced.

She graduated from American University in 1980 with a bachelor’s degree in journalism.

As a flaxen-haired former actress, Ms. Rieger often appeared on lists of Washington’s most attractive local celebrities.

She grew weary of the flattery as her career progressed, saying she wished to keep attention on her work.

She was proud of having found a personal style of delivering the news, which The Post once described as “self-effacing, opinionated and humorous by turns.”

She called it merely a reflection of herself.

“You have to be yourself on the air, you can’t go in there and project some fake personality, some front and expect people to believe it,” she had said.

“Eventually the real you comes through and it better be comfortable for you, since that’s what people see on the other side of the camera.”