NBC NIGHTLY NEWS ‘Tom Llama speaks life outside the news room (exclusively)

After 30 years in news premises, Tom llama has risen to new heights: deliver today’s top headlines to millions of Americans as anchors and editor -in -chief NBC Nightly News.

It is a job llama, now 45, tells people that he still feels the same “fire” as he did when he was 15 years old during his first internship at Telemundo in Miami.

“From the moment I went into that news room it was exciting. It was so much energy,” he reflects. “That’s who I am.”

Llama’s, who is also anchor to NBC News Now’s Top story with Tom Llamasaying it was an “immediately yes” when Top NBC Mass offered him the anchor role for the evening news and did the show NBC NIGHTLY NEWS with Tom Llama’s.

“That’s 100% yes,” he continues. “And then it’s a break and just an insight about the honor that this job is, and the culmination for decades of hard work, and just the responsibility and knowing what comes with the job.”

Lama Successful Lester Holtwho spent ten years in the chairman. Since only the fourth anchor for the program in 40 years is a job offer that does not come often.

To celebrate his great campaign, Llama’s took his family – including his Mrs., Jenniferand their three children: Daughters Malena and Juliette and son Tomas – to a Steakhouse in New York City for a “good dinner.”

“The children could order what they wanted,” he recalls. “I think they ordered every dessert.”

Llama says to tell their parents, who are both Cuban immigrants, if the campaign was “very emotional to them.”

On one Personal essay For NBC News 2021, Llama’s shared that his father grew up in the Oriente province of Cuba while his mother grew up in the capital Havana. Their families fled from Cuba within several years in succession after Fidel Castro took over and settled in the United States and later meeting in high school.

“They not only know what it means to get this job, but they also know how much they had sacrificed and how hard they had worked for me and my brother, and they were fantastic parents,” he tells people.

Llama says that they “came here with nothing”, and that “this big country gave them a second chance” as well as “a new home.”

“They taught me to work hard, and they taught me to love this country, and I do. This is the biggest country,” he continues.

Llama’s saying his success is proof of him “that the American dream is still alive.”

As for what that phrase – “The American Dream” – means to him personally, he offers his own definition.

“It means that in this country, if you work hard, you follow the rules, you remain a good person and you honor the traditions you came up with, that you can do what you want,” he begins.

“I mean, in its most bark, in this country, you can start with nothing and still achieve your dream, and I believe it,” he adds.

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For Llama’s, the news is not just a job – it’s a passion. But he also knows how to unwind.

“Look, if I wasn’t a news anchor, I would still read the news every day because I love the news,” he raves. “When I’m on duty I’m with the family. But I always have that phone on, so if the news breaks, they can find me.”

During his downtime, Llama says that he is in full dad: “I play sports with the kids on the weekends, go to Little League games or gymnastics meetings, such things.”

He also enjoys sharing his love for music with his children.

“I have a record room in my house, so I will hang out and I listen to records and I will show my children’s music they have never heard of, which is fun.”

LLAMAS says that he and his wife also enjoy their television time together – of course not watching the news.

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Instead, he will spend the fourth July state, honor the family’s traditions and celebrates his birthday.

“My birthday is July 2, so sometimes we make a combination of my birthday and the fourth of July, the birthday to this country,” he shares. “So it’s a bit cool.”

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Llama’s, who kicks his dad mode, reveals Llama’s that one of his favorite things to wear for the holiday is an “American flag bath.”

“The sticky, the better,” he adds.

He will also channel his father’s skills “Grill Master” and try to recreate his famous Baby Back Ribs to go alongside a “Good Key Lime Pie” like the good Florida-jumped boy he is.

Patriotism goes deep in Llama’s family, and he says his son follows in the same footsteps.

“My little guy, because he looks at so much baseball, he is in some way to grow up with this patriotism that is kind of baked, which is beautiful,” he explains proudly. “He loves” God bless America “and admits that there are these people who fought in war that keep us free.”