Victoria Rubadiri Bio-Wiki, Age, Family, Marriage, Husband, Salary and Net Worth

Who is Victoria Rubadiri? | Victoria Rubadiri Biography and Wiki

Victoria Rubadiri (b. 28 Jan 1987) is a Kenyan journalist, who currently co-anchors Kenya’s most-watched Prime-time news broadcast Sunday Live on Citizen TV and Citizen Weekend primetime news bulletin on Saturday. She was born in Nairobi, KE, and raised in the USA.

She is also well-known for her ability to connect with her audience and tell compelling stories. Rubadiri was a reporter and Prime-time news anchor for NTV’s Weekend Edition that airs every Friday to Sunday at 9 pm. She also hosted and produced the Women and Power segment that airs every Saturday during the Prime-time bulletin.

Rubadiri has a background in radio working as a business journalist and news presenter at Capital FM in Nairobi for almost two years. She did freelance work in Public Relations in New Jersey and New York prior to her return home. Vicky is not extravagant, yet she isn’t mean too.

She enjoys cooking and photography during her free time. When she is not in the newsroom, Vicky says she switches off her work and goes home to be a mom to her little angel. Mostly, she travels with her kid whenever she gets the time.

Together they visit places including new jersey and Disney world. It’s kind of hard to get her hanging out on weekends as that’s when her job calls. Her poise, refinement, and abhorrence for scandals have made her a sweetheart of the majority and have likewise earned her regard from her companions.

Victoria Rubadiri has a passion for mentoring the youth which she has been involved in for the last five-plus years both in the US and Kenya.

Read on for more info. about Victoria Rubadiri Bio-Age-Family-Dad-Marriage-Husband-Sister-Mother-Height-Nationality-Child-Salary-Net Worth and more.

Victoria Rubadiri Age and Birthday

Victoria Rubadiri is 33 years of age as of 2020, she was born on 28 Jan 1987, in Nairobi, Kenya. The news presenter celebrates her birthday on 28 Jan every year and her birth sign is Aquarius.

Victoria Rubadiri Height and Weight

Victoria stands at an average height and has moderate weight. She appears to be quite tall in stature if her photos, relative to her surroundings, are anything to go by. However, details regarding her actual height and other body measurements are currently not publicly available.

Victoria Rubadiri holds Kenyan nationality. We are keeping tabs and will update her information once it is out.

Victoria Rubadiri Education

The good looking television news anchor is a very learned lady. She went to Atlantic City High School in 1999, where she earned her Bachelor’s degree in Arts Broadcast Journalism in 2003. She is also a proud undergraduate student at Temple University, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Broadcast Journalism.

Victoria Rubadiri Family

Victoria Rubadiri Parents

Victoria Rubadiri was born to both parents in an average-sized family in Nairobi, KE. However, her father James David Rubadiri is of Malawian descent while her mother is a half-breed of Maasai parents and Kalenjin parents. She was raised alongside her younger sister Mabel Rubadiri. Her family moved to the US when she was just 10 years of age thus she was forced to adjust and adapt to the new environment and curriculum.

Furthermore, when she got pregnant at a young age, her moral father forbid her to have an abortion even though she did not have the child willingly. However, details about her mother are currently not available.

Victoria Rubadiri Dad

David Rubadiri (born James David Rubadiri), the former University of Malawi Vice-Chancellor, Malawian poet, double exile, and a diplomat and Victoria Rubadiri’s grandfather, was highly praised for his memorable literary works such as Poems from East Africa and Stanley Meets Mutesa among others.

Born in 1930, Victoria Rubadiri’s father, who served as a District Officer and worked across the border in Tanzania, had a wife, a homemaker. Rubadiri crossed over to Uganda in search of better education and attended both primary and secondary education at King’s College, Budo, near Kampala From 1941 to 1950.

He later joined to attend Makerere University between 1965 and 1975, where he graduated with his bachelor’s degree in English literature and History before flying out to the University of London where he studied for a BA in Literature, History, and Geography, and graduated with a first-class honors degree. His MA in Literature was at Cambridge.

In 2013, David explained that he was living out his retirement in a “small two-acre plot with what he described as a simple house” with his first wife Gertrude, a teacher, whom he married in 1957, before taking the second wife Janet in 1955 – a Ugandan nurse of Rwandese origin.

David and Gertrude were blessed with four sons Kwame, Sékou, Tengo, Lunga, and a daughter Lindiwe then with Janet, they bore four other children; son Desiré and daughters Natasha, Inga, and Linka.

However, illness had seen the 88-year-old poet and so he had come to Nairobi for medical attention, in addition to touching base with his progeny based in Kenya. On the 15th of September, 2018, Prof Rubadiri passed away due to a blood clot in his lungs.

Victoria Rubadiri Siblings, Victoria Rubadiri Sister

Victoria Rubadiri was raised alongside her younger sister, Mabel Rubadiri. Mabel is also a student at the prestigious University of Oxford. Additionally, her sister also shares the same beauty as her prolific sister Victoria.

Victoria Rubadiri Tribe

Speaking of her ethnicity, Victoria Rubadiri is a breed of almost all tribes and races on earth, which adds up to her unique, unusual beauty as a news anchor and TV presenter. Furthermore, her grandfather, David Rubadiri, and grandmother were half Kalenjin and half Scottish and Kikuyu, Maasai, and Seychellois, respectively.

Following an interview that was conducted on Hot 96 FM during the morning show by Jeff Koinange, Victoria stated that her name was derived from her great grandfather, who had converted to Islam on returning from Omani, where he had been taken as a slave.

“When he came from Malawi, he would pray five times a day and his fellow villagers wondered what he was saying because he was praying in Arabic. He would say ‘aaaaahrubadiri’ repeatedly and the villagers would imitate him. So he liked it and noted that he would take up that name,” she recounted.

Victoria Rubadiri Husband, Victoria Rubadiri Spouse

Speaking of her personal life, Victoria Rubadiri sees the need to open up on how falling pregnant at 18 made her desperate and left her thinking of procuring an abortion. She states in her biography that she dated her boyfriend (does not disclose his name) and impregnated her while studying journalism at Temple University in the United States where her family was living.

Victoria Rubadiri Daughter, Victoria Rubadiri Child

However, it all turned out to be a real life-prank and that his love was fake. He denied responsibility for the pregnancy but Victoria’s father together with other family members categorically refused her abortion agenda. So Victoria Rubadiri kept it and in 2015, she gave birth to a lovely daughter, Neema.

… After moving to the states at the young age of 10, she thought that it was difficult to fit into the new culture and she ended up pulled back, wrapped in a cover and when she opened up to somebody she opened up to a person who got her pregnant. Frightened, she chose to end the pregnancy yet her father interceded.

Victoria Rubadiri Salary

The beautiful prolific journalist Victoria Rubadiri receives an approximate monthly salary of Ksh 750,000 ($7,281.55). Her salary doubled once she joined Citizen from NTV. Additionally, while serving as a news anchor at NTV, Victoria received a salary of Ksh 400,000 ($3,888.5) per month that was double her fellow NTV staff.

Victoria Rubadiri Net Worth

Victoria Rubadiri’s Net Worth is estimated to be between $1 million and $5 million as of 2020. This includes her assets, money and income. Her primary source of income is her career as a journalist. Through her various sources of income, Rubadiri has been able to accumulate a good fortune but prefers to lead a modest lifestyle.

However, the specifics about Victoria Rubadiri’s assets and liabilities are still under review making it difficult to establish her actual net worth.

Victoria Rubadiri Measurements and Facts

Here are some interesting facts and body measurements you should know about Rubadiri

Victoria Rubadiri Bio and Wiki

• Full Names: Victoria Rubadiri
• Popular As: Victoria
• Gender: Male
• Occupation / Profession: Journalist
• Nationality: Kenyan
• Race / Ethnicity: African
• Religion: Not Known
• Sexual Orientation: Straight

Victoria Rubadiri Birthday

• Age / How Old?: 33 years (2020)
• Zodiac Sign: Aquarius
• Date of Birth: Jan 28, 1987
• Place of Birth: Nairobi, Kenya
• Birthday: 28 Jan

Victoria Rubadiri Body Measurements

• Body Measurements: Not Available
• Height / How Tall?: Not Known
• Weight: Not Known
• Eye Color: Dark Brown
• Hair Color: Black
• Shoe Size: Not Available
• Dress Size: Not Available
• Breast Size: Not Available
• Waist Size: Not Available
• Hip Size: Not Available

Victoria Rubadiri Family and Relationship

• Father (Dad): Not Known
• Mother: Not Known
• Siblings (Brothers and Sisters): Mabel Rubadiri
• Marital Status: Single
• Husband: Not Available
• Boyfriend: Not Known
• Children: Neema(daughter)

Victoria Rubadiri Networth and Salary

• Net Worth: Under Review
• Salary: Ksh 800,000
• Source of Income: Journalist

Victoria Rubadiri House and Cars

• Place of living: To be Updated
• Cars: Car Brand to be Updated

Victoria Rubadiri And Larry Madowo, Victoria Rubadiri Weds Larry Madowo

Victoria Rubadiri and Larry Madowo had the most astonishing discernable science on Kenyan TV and many felt that there was a ton of affection going on behind the screens. So it was just normal that people imagined that the two were dating, something which Larry has denied till now. Victoria likewise says there wasn’t such sentimental love between them. They are simply astounding companions!

On why the two separated with Victoria Rubadiri being transferred to Lunch Time news and Yvonne Maingey having her spot on Prime Time close by Larry, Victoria uncovers that since they had new grapples ready, the administration chose to switch up things. Sort of gets them into the entire stay move.

So they separated a few sets set up others, for example, Victoria was matched with Ken, Larry, and Maingey. Victoria presently says she isn’t dating anybody in light of the fact that most men dread her stature, attitude, certainty, and aura.

Victoria Rubadiri Career

Victoria Rubadiri’s first voice-over was at the age of three and since then she says the call to enter the media got louder.

She attended Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she graduated with a Bachelors Degree in Broadcast Journalism. She has worked in radio and television for a decade both in Kenya and the US.

Through the years, Victoria Rubadiri has become a much sought-after, award-winning journalist known most for her ability to connect with her audience and tell compelling stories. Being the custodian of another’s story, she believes is her greatest responsibility as a journalist.

Victoria also moderates high-level discussions of both regional and continental importance. The most recent being the East African Business Council Summit in Arusha that hosted all six regional heads of state.

In Kenya, Victoria Rubadiri earned popularity after she began working for Capital FM as a Business Journalist and a news Presenter in 2012. Afterward, Victoria figured out how to open her own show, called “Victoria’s Lounge”, where she was a maker and a moderator and as we speak, the show has become one of the most popular TV shows.

Victoria Rubadiri Citizen Tv

Talking of her new career journey at Citizen TV, many viewers were not sure whether it was a hit or a miss for Royal Media Services after poaching Victoria Rubadiri from NTV and assigning her to Sunday Live alongside Jeff. According to Victoria who compares her former colleagues at NTV with working with Jeff, she lays bare her feelings about the matter and concludes to state that she is joyous about working with Jeff Koinange on the screens.

“I worked with such talented individuals at NTV. We were such a great team and did even greater work, they were like family to me, I miss them, a lot. But seasons change, and sometimes we have to move on to other things. We had a great run though,” she admitted in an interview with journalist Yvonne Aoll for SDE.

Actually, to her, Jeff has been a role model and feels honored to have been granted an opportunity to pair up with the seasoned journalist.

“He has incredible journalistic skills. His work has spoken for itself over the years, so for me to be able to now work with him is just so surreal. I couldn’t respect him anymore,” appreciated Ms. Rubadiri.

Additionally, she won the 2020 BBC World News Komla Dumor Award while serving at Citizen.

Victoria Rubadiri NTV

Victoria Rubadiri joined NTV in 2012 starting out as a reporter and prime-time news anchor for NTV’s Weekend Edition that airs every Friday to Sunday at 9 PM. She is also hosted and was the producer of the Women and Power segment and the popular show Victoria’s Lounge.

Frequently Asked Questions About Victoria Rubadiri

Who is Victoria Rubadiri?

Victoria Rubadiri is a well-known news reporter for Citizen TV. Prior to joining Citizen TV, he wrote for NTV’s Weekend Edition that aired every Friday to Sunday at 9 pm.

How old is Victoria Rubadiri?

Victoria Rubadiri is a Kenyan national born on January 28, 1987, in Kenya.

How tall is Victoria Rubadiri?

Victoria has not shared her height with the public. Her height will be listed once we have it from a credible source.

Is Victoria Rubadiri married?

No. She presently says she isn’t dating anybody in light of the fact that most men dread her stature, attitude, certainty, and aura.

How much is Victoria Rubadiri worth?

Victoria has not yet revealed her net worth. We will update this section when we get and verify information about the wealth and properties under her name.

How much does Victoria Rubadiri make?

According to our reliable sources, Victoria Rubadiri has an estimated salary of Ksh 800,000.

Where does Victoria Rubadiri live?

Because of security reasons, Victoria has not shared her precise location of residence. We will immediately update this information if we get the location and images of her house.

Is Victoria dead or alive?

Rubadiri is alive and in good health. There have been no reports of her being sick or having any health-related issues.

Where is Rubadiri now?

Rubadiri is pursuing her career in journalism. She co-anchors Kenya’s most-watched Prime-time news broadcast Sunday Live on Citizen TV and Citizen Weekend primetime news bulletin on Saturday.

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