Matt Lauer offered to resign from “Today” during the height of the crisis over Ann Curry’s ouster, The Daily Beast’s Howard Kurtz wrote on Monday. In the piece, Lauer also offers his most extensive comments to date about the Curry saga, which has seen “Today” hit with some of the worst publicity in its 60-year […]
Joy Behar is leaving “The View,” she told Deadline on Thursday night. Behar, a longtime standup comic and an unapologetic liberal, has been on the ABC talk show since 1997. She said she would leave in August, when her contract expires. Her exit leaves Barbara Walters as the show’s only remaining original co-host. “It seemed […]
*Tracee Ellis Ross is tired of pretending she likes the show, “Reed Between the Lines.” Ok, that’s not what she said, but she is leaving the terribly scripted so-called BET comedy. Her departure comes shortly after joining the cast of NBC’s fall pilot, “Bad Girls,” a show about women in federal prison. The show wasn’t […]
Keith Olbermann told David Letterman on Tuesday that he “screwed up really big” in deciding to join Current TV. It was Olbermann’s first television appearance since his ugly firing from the network on Friday, after a little less than a year there. Since then, the battle between the anchor and his former bosses has played […]
Star Jones returned to "The View" on Wednesday and set the record straight about her nasty departure from the show almost six years after falling out with Barbara Walters. Jones exited "The View" in a firestorm of controversy in 2006. ABC had decided not to renew her contract, and she retaliated by announcing that she would be leaving the show. Walters would not allow her back the next day. The feud escalated when Walters revealed that Jones had asked her fellow co-hosts to lie about her weight loss from gastric bypass surgery.