Oprah Winfrey sits down with Rihanna in her native Barbados for an emotional, wide-ranging interview set to air on an upcoming “Oprah’s Next Chapter.” And, yes, she talks about Chris Brown. “It was embarrassing. It was humiliating. I lost my best friend,” Rihanna tells Oprah through tears at one point, although the context for the […]
Read moreCharlie Rose, who has interviewed King Abdullah several times before, had a long-standing interview request in with him. After spending more than an hour interviewing the King, Rose and company boarded a Jordanian army helicopter and flew to the Jordan-Syria border to a refugee camp which opened less than two weeks ago. The crew was […]
Read moreToday” anchor-at-large Ann Curry returned to the show for the first time since leaving her job as co-anchor in late June. In promoting the 8am piece, Matt Lauer teased, “Ann Curry has made her way to London.” Curry, on set with Lauer, had a piece on some of the best photography from the games. “A […]
Read moreFormer Today co-anchor Ann Curry‘s style includes a fondness for brightly colored clothing and a refusal to dye her grey hair. That style, it seems, didn’t sit too well with her bosses at NBC. In the August issue of Ladies’ Home Journal, Curry noted that wardrobe choices didn’t always draw a positive response. Said Curry: […]
Read moreLolo Jones, who finished fourth in the finals of the 100M hurdles Tuesday, went on “Today” this morning and, fighting back tears, said a Saturday New York Times story that compared her to Anna Kournikova, the former tennis pro known more for her good looks than her play on the court, didn’t help her performance. […]
Read moreConservative radio host Laura Ingraham on Tuesday pretended to abruptly end an interview after Fox News guest host Juliet Huddy used the slur “illegal aliens” to refer to undocumented immigrants. Conservative websites like Breitbart.com and Glenn Beck’s The Blaze have recently expressed outrage that the UCLA Center for Labor Research and the National Labor College […]
Read moreThe Toddlers & Tiaras star known as “Honey Boo Boo” after her personal catchphrase visited CNN’s Starting Point Tuesday morning to discuss her new reality series and to debut a whole new slogan soon to be seen emblazoned on crop tops all across this great nation. When asked about the criticism often hurled at pageant […]
Read moreBeyond the ratings, here’s one more indicator of the “Today” show losing out to “Good Morning America.” Page Six reports, “Today” show superfan Linny Boyette has switched allegiances. With “Today” in London, Boyette has been spotted across town at “GMA.” “He has been there every morning this week,” one ABC insider told us, adding, “we’ve […]
Read moreOlympian Gabby Douglas’ pink leotard become a center of controversy on ‘America Live’ with Fox News host Alisyn Camerota and radio host/tea partier David Webb who said it was a sad time about how America has “lost over time that jingoistic feeling” because “a soft anti-American feeling that Americans can’t show their exceptionalism.” (Source: Fox […]
Read moreSoon-to-be ABC talk show host Katie Couric pulled back the curtain so to speak on her new set. Couric will host her eponymous daytime talker starting in September, and it looks like the studio is almost ready. In addition to a green screen (the purpose of which is still a mystery), the studio will look […]
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