Lucy Bustamente is trying her hand at as Regis Philbin’s co-host on the “Live! with Regis and Kelly”, filling in for a missing Kelly.

Lucy Bustamente is a news anchor on New Orleans Louisiana’s WWL-TV where she got quite a bit of experience covering the hurricane Katrina disaster and it’s effects throughout Lousiana and especially in New Orleans.

Ms. Bustamente got her shot as Regis’ co-host during a viewer vote where the audience selected candidates from local affiliates to appear on “Live!”

Lucy started working on her career in TV news in college while still attending Loyola. Working her way up from a lowly intern to a full editor, Lucy was bitten by the broadcasting bug and has never turned back.

At 22, the lovely Ms. Bustamente, worked her first professional news story for WALA-TV in Alabama doing live reports during tropical storms. She recall fondly “getting her feet wet” in the news game.

Lucy Bustamente was one of 20 finalists, vying for the coveted position beside Regis Philbin. Even though the contest was for a “Co-Host for a Day”, who knows?

Regis is quite the ladies man, working his way from Kathy Lee Gifford to Kelly Ripa. The producers for the contest must be aware that eventually, Regis is going to need a new lovely lady to bounce his wise-cracks off of and perhaps this contest is a way to find some possible candidates?

Only time will tell.