Giovani “Gio” Benitez is an American broadcast journalist and correspondent for ABC News, who appears on Good Morning America, World News Tonight, 20/20, and Nightline.

Gio also hosts the Fusion collaboration version of Nightline. He has won three television news Emmy awards. On April 9, 2020, he was promoted to Transportation Correspondent, operating from New York and DC.

Benitez was born in Miami to a family who immigrated to the United States from Cuba. He graduated from Miami Coral Park High School in 2004; and in 2008, graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in anthropology and sociology from Florida International University. He is natively bilingual in English and Spanish.

How did Gio Benitez meet his husband Tommy DiDario?

The 35-year-old began dating Tommy DiDario in 2015 after meeting on Instagram. Their first date was over “tacos, guac, and margarita(s).” Gio and Tommy got engaged by September of 2015 while they were on a trip to Paris.

Benitez and Tommy DiDario became engaged on September 17, 2015, in Paris. They married in a Miami ceremony on April 16, 2016.

DiDario is a fitness trainer and Instagram influencer who has also appeared on television shows, including Rachael Ray.