An area tv information station in Arizona is mourning the dying of its “beloved” 28-year-old anchor.
Ana Orsini, who hosted the flagship morning present on the CBS affiliate KOLD News 13 in Tucson, Ariz., handed away final week after struggling a mind aneurysm, in line with the station.
Tributes to the Denver native poured in from her colleagues.
“We misplaced a beloved member of our KOLD information staff. Ana Orsini was our anchor, a frontrunner of the morning staff, and most significantly an excellent good friend to so many on the station,” co-anchor Cory Kowitz wrote on social media.
“I had the pleasure of working along with her in the course of the morning,” Kowitz added. “Rest in peace Ana.”
Tyler Butler, a KOLD News 13 anchor, additionally paid tribute to Orsini.
“We had the chance to work along with her daily, and we do need you to know that what you noticed along with her on air, the humorous, loopy individual she was, she was similar to that off digicam and extra so,” he wrote on his Facebook account.
Carsyn Currier, a co-anchor of Orsini’s, mourned her as “not solely lovely, gifted, and hilarious, however she was not like anybody I’ve ever met.”
“To know Ana was to LOVE her,” Currier wrote on her Instagram account.
“She made everybody round her really feel so particular, heard and understood. Waking up in the course of the evening to go to work is all the time difficult, however figuring out I used to be going to work with Ana made it that a lot simpler.”
The Post has sought remark from Orsini’s household.
Orsini joined KOLD News 13 in June of final yr. She started her profession in Lubbock, Texas, after graduating from Texas A&M University in 2018.
Orsini labored at KDRV NewsWatch 12 in Medford, Ore., earlier than touchdown in Tucson.
