Bella Michaels announced she has left KRGV 5 Rio Grande Valley in May 2025, where she was a reporter/anchor.
And then in June, she got engaged to now fiancé Giavani Cairo in Rome.
Michaels joined KRGV in September 2021 as a sports reporter. She moved to the news department in July 2023.
While earning her bachelor's and master’s degrees in Broadcast Journalism from DePaul University Michaels served as a production assistant for Chicago Tonight at WTTW alongside veteran journalists Carol Marin and Don Moseley, contributing to the Chicago Tribune’s 2018 World Cup coverage, freelancing with beIN Sports in Miami, and hosting her own soccer radio show, Talk Soccer to Me, on Radio DePaul. She earned recognition as Graduate Student of the Year with an Outstanding Achievement in Journalism Award at DePaul in 2021.
