Where is delilah now

This farm is where Zack grew up and made friends with local kids who still come over. Although her voice has the smoothness of rich cream with a hint of a Southern drawl, she is a child of the rural Pacific Northwest. Born in Reedsport, Oregon, she is steeped in the values of God, family, frugality and hard work. Any given day, 55, people try to call in to vent, ask advice or dedicate a song to someone they love; her shows are a dialogue between Delilah and the 80 to who actually get through.

After listening to callers pour out their problems, Delilah finds a song that matches their situation. Her show airs daily from 7 p. Her Facebook page and website are peppered with names of celebrity friends, such as actress Roma Downey and singers Christina Aguilera and Jon Bon Jovi. And her website is full of marketing: books, contests, recipes, music, candy. The program director, Chris Mays, allowed her to add listener phone calls and stories to the songs, and she parlayed the combo into a successful brand that stuck.

She had a natural sympathy for her audience then because of her own ups and downs: The birth of her first child, the collapse of her first marriage, and the death of an older brother and his wife in a plane crash all occurred around that time.

After several job switches, her career took off in , when she began syndicating her show out of Rochester, N. She returned to Seattle in , after the syndication rights to her program were sold to Seattle-based Broadcast Programming.

She bought a home in West Seattle, where she settled with her third husband, Douglas Ortega, and three biological children: Isaiah Harris, now 34, a Tukwila police officer; Shaylah Rene-Ortega, 24; and Zack. When Zack was born in , Delilah and Douglas had just adopted three siblings from state foster care. The couple divorced in Delilah began looking for a larger place, where she could have a farm similar to what she grew up with, and the bigger family she always wanted. She bought the Port Orchard property in ; the farmhouse required several years of remodeling before she moved in, in Premiere a subsidiary of iHeart Media was syndicating the Dr.

Laura Schlessinger program at the time, and Kitchin saw that same star power in Delilah. She first became involved in West Africa after a woman in Ghana emailed the show, asking whether Delilah would like to adopt her three starving siblings.

She has adopted 11 children over the years, including Sammy, a boy from Ghana, who died of sickle cell anemia in Recently, Delilah added 3-year-old Paul to the family — her 14th child. Each one, she says, was a call from God to make room for one more.

Growing up in Port Orchard, Zack moved to Issaquah in the fall of , his senior year of high school, to live with his father. Zack got into a car accident; a girlfriend dumped him; and he got sick and missed two weeks of school, then learned his absences would make it impossible for him to graduate the following spring. And she never tires of hearing from her legions of loyal listeners.

What motivates them. Who they love, what their dreams are," she says of her loyal listeners and callers. And so I'm always going to be this way. I was born this way. So what's the secret to getting your love story some air time with Delilah? He's the love of my life. He's my rock'," she says. I want to know your story. Like what made you fall in love, or what is it about your husband after 30 years that still makes you smile?

People will call me and I could hear the smile in their voice when they talk about their beloved. And I know when I hear that warm smile, that there is joy and there is the essence of real love A lot of times, honestly, it's what you don't say that I'm listening to, as much what you do say.

Daily broadcasts, caring for her children, running a foundation, writing books, traveling and public speaking add up to a very busy life for Delilah. Menu Listen Live.

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