Native name 安藤 優子 Notable credit(s) Super News Role TV presenter Education Sophia University | Occupation News anchor Name Yuko Ando Spouse Koichi Tsutsumi (m. 2006) | |
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Born 19 November 1958 (age 65) ( 1958-11-19 ) Ichikawa, Chiba, Japan Similar People Katsumi Takahashi, Yurika Mita, Maoko Kotani, Taro Kimura, Miki Ando | ||
Yūko Andō (安藤 優子, Andō Yūko, born 19 November 1958, in Ichikawa, Chiba) is a Japanese TV presenter and news anchor. She has headed Fuji Television's Super News evening news programme alongside Tetsuo Suda since April 2000.
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Career
As a newscaster, Ando has presented the following Fuji TV evening news programmes since 1987.
During her career, she has interviewed many heads of state, including Philippine President Corazon Aquino, US President Bill Clinton, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and Polish President Lech Walesa.
Personal life
Ando first married in December 1989, to an advertising agency employee, but divorced in March 1993. She remarried on 26 December 2006, to Koichi Tsutsumi (堤 康一), a Fuji TV producer with whom she had been in a relationship since 1996.