{"id":335513,"date":"2026-09-02T02:18:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T02:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/335513\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T02:18:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T02:18:29","slug":"good-day-new-york-anchor-rosanna-scotto-cries-for-late-mom-on-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/335513\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Good Day New York&#8217; anchor Rosanna Scotto cries for late mom on TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGood Day New York\u201d host Rosanna Scotto struggled to control her emotions on her first day back to work after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DcgbthVEeA5\/?hl=en&amp;img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">her mother\u2019s death.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scotto announced the death of her mom, 90-year-old Marion Scotto, in an Instagram post last week saying the \u201cproud mother of four children\u201d who opened the popular Midtown restaurant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frescobyscottony.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Fresco by Scotto<\/a> in 1993, had died.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the tears came when the 68-year-old broadcaster heard the B.J. Thomas tune \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sySlY1XKlhM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Raindrops Keep Fallin\u2019 on My Head<\/a>\u201d during a Monday morning weather report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy mother would kill me right now if she saw me crying on the air, so we\u2019re going to get it together,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/new-york-anchor-cries-live-on-air-mourning-the-death-of-her-mother-12075101\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">she told viewers.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Rosanna Scotto talks about death of her mother during &quot;Good Day New York.&quot; (Fox 5 News)\" width=\"5333\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Rosanna-Scotto-talks-about-death-of-her-mother.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9207967\" \/>Rosanna Scotto talks about death of her mother during &#8220;Good Day New York.&#8221; (Fox 5 News)<\/p>\n<p>She said that 1969 Burt Bacharach song recorded by B.J. Thomas for the \u201cButch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid\u201d soundtrack, made her think of her parents.<\/p>\n<p>Her colleagues showed their support as Scotto wiped away her tears and moved forward with the broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>Scotto recorded an Instagram message<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reels\/Dcve9ypR4gx\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> thanking fans<\/a> for their support during her time of grieving.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re back in the saddle,\u201d she said. \u201cMom would\u2019ve wanted that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scotto said that when her father, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CS4EEC1LsNc\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Anthony Scotto, died<\/a> in 2021, her mom had the whole family report to their restaurant the same night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve taken more time than she would have allowed if she were around,\u201d Scotto confessed.<\/p>\n<p>Scotto was raised in Brooklyn\u2019s Bay Ridge neighborhood. In addition to her four decades on Fox 5, she\u2019s involved in running Fresco by Scotto. She has also <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/name\/nm0780016\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">played a news reporter<\/a> in films including \u201cGhostbusters\u201d and \u201cThe Paper.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cGood Day New York\u201d host Rosanna Scotto struggled to control her emotions on her first day back to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[77771,126124,10097,26134,9,11,10,73360,34578,126125],"class_list":["post-335513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-fox-5","tag-marion-scotto","tag-mom","tag-mother","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-on-air","tag-rosanna-scotto","tag-tears"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}