Category Archives: Host

Leno’s ‘Tonight Show’ joke offends Sikh community

By doris | Published: January 26, 2012

Full Story at TheMarquee.Blogs.CNN.com Late night hosts are using everything they’ve got to poke fun at the Republican presidential candidate race, from Jimmy Fallon making campaign ad parodies to Jimmy Kimmel’s “A Charlie Brown GOP Debate.” But “The Tonight Show’s” Jay Leno might have gone too far for a few laughs. On January 19, the [...]

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Amanpour to return to CNN

By doris | Published: December 14, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Christiane Amanpour will return to CNN with a weekday program on CNN International while continuing at ABC News as a global affairs anchor, the networks announced Tuesday. Amanpour will begin hosting a program on CNN International in 2012 as part of a “unique arrangement” with ABC News, CNN Worldwide [...]

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Rosie O’Donnell engaged to new girlfriend

By doris | Published: December 5, 2011

Full Story at TODAY.msnbc.msn.com Rosie O’Donnell is engaged to partner Michelle Rounds. A source confirms to Us Weekly that the 49-year-old comedian told her “Rosie Show” studio audience Friday that she and Rounds will say “I do” over Christmas. PHOTOS: Stars’ gorgeous wedding pictures O’Donnell and Rounds, a New York City headhunter, made their public [...]

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Oprah sets Wendy Williams straight about rumored woes with BFF

By doris | Published: December 1, 2011

Full Story at TheClicker.today.msnbc.msn.com Buzz about troubles for Oprah Winfrey and her longtime best pal Gayle King recently made the rumor rounds. Even daytime talker Wendy Williams was among those who feared the famous friends were on the outs, but not anymore. “I love when celebrities contact the ‘Wendy Show’ to set the record straight,” [...]

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Oprah’s biggest on-air mistake? The wagon of fat

By doris | Published: October 8, 2011

Full Story at TheClicke.today.com In 1988, Oprah Winfrey wheeled out a little red wagon containing 67 pounds of animal fat — the amount of weight she’d then lost — just to show her audience what she’d accomplished. It made for one of daytime television’s most memorable moments. It also made for the talk-show host’s biggest [...]

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Nancy Grace is reportedly going ‘Dancing’

By doris | Published: August 29, 2011

Full Story at TheClicker.toeay.com Oh boy. If you thought casting Bristol Palin and Kate Gosselin for previous seasons of “Dancing With the Stars” caused an uproar, the latest casting rumor could bring about yet another frenzy of passionate comments. According to TMZ, one of the celebs who will be announced as a “DWTS” competitor tonight [...]

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Billy Crystal ‘itchy’ to host Oscars again

By doris | Published: August 21, 2011

Full Story at Scoop.today.com I’d have to review the tapes, but I might have made a remark during last year’s Oscar broadcast, commenting that the show had deteriorated so much, I actually missed Billy Crystal. I think I’d like to take that back, now that Crystal seems to be throwing his hat back in the [...]

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Did ‘Jerry Springer Show’ offer Casey Anthony $1M to appear?

By doris | Published: July 8, 2011

Full Story at TheClicke.today.com Could the soon-to-be-free Casey Anthony be appearing on your TV screen again? And on the wild and rowdy “Jerry Springer Show” to boot? According to a Star magazine report via Radar Online, the folks at “Springer” offered Anthony $1 million, but she’d have to appear on the show with her parents [...]

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Lisa Rinna says she’d join Kelly Ripa after Regis Philbin leaves ‘Live’

By doris | Published: May 2, 2011

Full Story at latimesblogs.latimes.com Lisa Rinna, who 10 years ago was up for the “Live” job that Kelly Ripa ultimately snagged, would now like to take Regis Philbin’s spot on the show. “I think it’s actually smart to put a lady in there [with] Kelly,” the former “Days of Our Lives” star told PopEater. “It [...]

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Betty White to host new NBC reality show

By doris | Published: March 31, 2011

Full Story at TODAY.msnbc.msn.com LOS ANGELES — The unstoppable Betty White is taking on reality TV with a hidden-camera show that turns senior citizens into merry pranksters. NBC has ordered 12 episodes of “Betty White’s Off Their Rockers,” the working title for a series based on a hit Belgian program that has been produced in [...]

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