• Danielle Trotta (Heather Storm) was born in Westchester, Pennsylvania USA.
• She grew up in the mountains of Montana and was taught various skills by her father.
• She is a TV host, fitness model, fitness trainer, and businesswoman.
• She has her own YouTube channel and has travelled to 20 different countries.
• She has a net worth of over $1.8 million and is active on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.
Heather Storm (Garage Squad) Wiki Bio
Danielle Trotta was born in Westchester, Pennsylvania USA, on 13 June 1962, so under the zodiac sign of Gemini and holding American nationality – as Heather Storm, she’s popular for her career of a TV host, especially for being the co-host of the “Garage Squad” series.
Childhood and education
Heather was actually raised in the mountains of Montana by her parents Dan and Phyllis Trotta, but she hasn’t shared much about them, as she prefers to keep them away from the media’s attention. Heather is an only child.
She grew up being physically active, which is quite common for children living in the mountains. Her father is partly credited with this, as he often took her cycling and taught her how to shoot, use tools, set up camps, and numerous other things – as he doesn’t have a son, he taught her as if she was his son.
Heather was very focused on her studies, and was one of the best students at her high school – after she matriculated, she enrolled at Oregon State University, and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in environmental science.
Heather’s acting career and other jobs
Heather began with her modelling career before going into acting. It was about this time that she adopted her professional name, but there’s no information as to how it was derived. She became a fitness model after being noticed by a modelling scout, and subsequently appeared on numerous cover pages of fitness magazines, while also posing for worldwide-known clothing brands and companies. She would later become a fitness trainer, and launch her own business – Black Lab – which is creating cocktails and numerous mixes of drinks while being eco-friendly.
Heather is mostly popular for hosting the “Garage Squad” TV series – it revolves around people accepting vehicles which are in horrible condition, and the Squad team then fixing them and returning them to their owners.
Other than that, Heather has also been a host of the “Street Turner Challenge” TV series.
Heather has produced her own show entitled “The Mix Down”, during which she shares her own cocktail recipes while listening to electronic dance music – the series is a bit hit on the internet. She’s appeared in several movies, such as “MANswers”, “No Bad Days”, “Paku Kuntilanak”, and “Surviving Disasters” among others.
She is also a bit of a YouTuber – she launched her channel on 29 September 2010, which she uses to upload videos of her travels while attending car shows, and tasting a variety wines.
Love affairs and personal life
Heather is amongst the most secretive people in the movie industry, as she hasn’t shared details of any men she might have been going out with through the years.
Rumor has it that the popular TV host was dating an actor back in 1994, after the two met during one of her photoshoots. They were allegedly dating for several years before calling it quits in 2001, due to a lack of passion – at the same time, Heather fell in love with another actor, and started a relationship with him which would last only for a year before the two called it quits.
She married former NASCAR driver Robby Benton on 27 October 2018; he’s now co-owner of RAB Racing. There’s no information of how and when they met, but possibly while she covered NASCAR racing.. She doesn’t have any kids.
Hobbies and interests
Heather is mostly focused on her career of a TV host, an actress, and a businesswoman but she has numerous other interests.
Heather is in love with travelling and has so far visited almost all the US states and has been to 20 countries around Europe, Africa, and Asia. She launched her YouTube channel so that she could document her travels and all the crazy and interesting things she gets to do – she’s bought her own Volkswagen minibus which she often uses for her travels.
Come out to @HotRodSuperNats this weekend 7/6 & 7/7. I'll be there starting at 10am. @SummitRacing #hotrodsupernats2019 #summitracing #carshow #musclecars #hotrods pic.twitter.com/dJacSEZPjt
— Heather Storm (@HeatherStormTV) July 2, 2019
Her second biggest passion is vintage cars which is the reason why she began hosting the “Garage Squad” TV show in the first place – she can often be seen attending car shows all around the US, and most of the pictures uploaded onto her Instagram account feature cars.
Heather enjoys spending her free time in the nature surrounded by trees and mountains as that’s what she grew up surrounded by – she’s visited many national parks in numerous countries, and still does this whenever she travels to a new country. She is a big lover of animals and believes that these are a lot better than humans, and that animals would do a lot better without us.
Appearance and net worth
Heather has long blonde hair and brown eyes, is 5ft 7ins (1.7m) tall, weighs around 132lbs (60kgs), and her vital statistics are 36-26-37.
According to authoritative sources, her current net worth is estimated to be more than $2 million, and will continue rising as long as she remains working on TV.
Social media presence
Heather is quite active on multiple social media networks as this is somewhat important for her career of a TV host.
She launched her Twitter account in April 2011, but is more popular on her Instagram account Heather is running a Facebook page as well, which counts nearly 40,000 fans.
