Role Television Personality Name Rocsi Diaz | Website www.rocsidiaz.com Years active 2000–present Nationality American, Honduran | |
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Full Name Raquel Roxanne Diaz Occupation radio personality, television personality, Movies and TV shows 106 & Park, Entertainment Tonight, Gang of Roses 2: Next Gen, Soul Ties Similar People Profiles | ||
Other names Lady of 106, Roczilla | ||
Rocsi diaz talks with clint eastwood at cinema con
Raquel Roxanne "Rocsi" Diaz (born 17 November 1983), also known as just Rocsi, is a Honduran-born, American television personality and model. She is best known as the co-host on the BET program 106 & Park from 2006-2012. She was a correspondent on Entertainment Tonight during 2012-2014, where she was billed as "Rocsi Diaz".
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- Rocsi diaz talks with clint eastwood at cinema con
- Rocsi Diaz On Tips For Becoming A Good TV Reporter
- Early life
- Career
- Television
- References
Rocsi Diaz On Tips For Becoming A Good TV Reporter
Early life
Diaz was born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras but moved with her family to New Orleans, Louisiana. She is of Honduran and Chilean descent. Rocsi announced on 106 & Park on July 30, 2009, that she suffered from anorexia during her years in middle school and high school due to her love for cheerleading. She graduated from West Jefferson High School in Harvey, Louisiana. She graduated from Nicholls State University.
Career
After growing up in New Orleans, she launched her career in Dallas, Texas, as a host on the city’s premier urban radio station, 97.9 The Beat. Here, Rocsi cultivated a unique, street-smart style that caught the attention of Boston’s Hot 97.7, where she later became a DJ. In 2004, she moved to Chicago where she was hired as midday-hour DJ at radio station Power 92 WPWX-FM, and was known as "The Midday Mami".
Television
Diaz appeared on MTV's Fear as a contestant in 2000.
BET personalities AJ Calloway and Free left the network on July 28, 2005. They were replaced by Big Tigger and Julissa Bermudez. They left and Rocsi on July 6, 2006 won the role of co-host of BET’s 106 & Park along with Terrence J. The show can be seen in over 85 million homes in U.S, United Kingdom, Canada, Africa, Caribbean, and Japan. For the debut in Japan, she and co-host Terrence J taped footage there, and appeared on MTV Video Music Awards Japan. In 2007, Rocsi starred as a BET News correspondent in Def Jam: Icon, but only appears in cutscenes on TV and not in fighting mode
On 19 November 2012 Diaz joined Entertainment Tonight as a daily correspondent and weekend co-host. In June 2014 Diaz was awarded a Daytime Emmy award as part of the cast for Outstanding Entertainment News Program. On 17 September 2014 Diaz was let go from the show as CNN's Nischelle Turner was hired.
In August 2013 she was recognised by the National Council of La Raza: Nuestro Pueblo. She received the Ruben Salazar Award for Communications.
On 23 January 2015 Diaz announced she had been hired by CNN's HLN. She is the Los Angeles contributor to their show The Daily Share that airs from 12-5 PM EST.
In August 2015 she marked the ten year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina by returning home with cameras. She showed how her childhood street was bare of homes.
Diaz serves as the host to the third season of Dating Naked on VH1 replacing the original two-seasoned host Amy Paffrath.