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GMA Will Recruit Talk Show Host All Stars as Robin Roberts Prepares for Medical Leave.
We found out earlier this year that ABC’S Robin Roberts was diagnosed with MD – a rare blood and bone marrow disease. She will be receiving a bone marrow transplant and thus taking a leave from Good Morning America.
Although there is truly no good time for her to leave, now is especially hard as Good Morning America has recently been going head to head with Matt Lauer’s “Today Show”. And for the first itme in 17 years have been winning some of the ratings battles.
The producers at ABC are no dummies, they have enlisted a slew of ‘All Star’ talk show veterans to help out until she returns.
Barbara Walters, Diane Sawyer, and Katie Couric are all lined up to step in for Roberts. Robin thinks she will be leaving at the end of August or the beginning of September….and she says she is somewhat scared,
“It’s fascinating-slash-scary how to prepare yourself for something like this, I do go through moments of fatigue.”
Although she feels fatigue, beating Mat Lauer’s “Today” has put some fire in her belly.
“The run that we’ve had has truly energized me, It’s pretty good medicine, I gotta say, to be taking!”
HOW WELL IS GMA DOING?
This past Thursday was the first time in 17 years that GMA has actually won first place among total views, beating out “Today” with 4.6 million viewers to their 4.25.
Ben Sherwood, ABC News President, took advantage of the 2012 London Olympics games starting up tonight, and put the victory in terms of the games He said,
“For 852 straight (weekly) races, the ‘Today’ show won the gold medal, going back to 1995,” he said. Then, several weeks ago, “GMA” snapped the “Today” winning streak, “and stood there alone for the first time in 16 years to get its own gold medal.”
“And after 879 weeks running behind in younger viewers, 25-to-54, GMA is “standing there at the gold-medal podium, unbelievably in an actual statistical tie with the previous champs.”
Sherwood doesn’t want to lose momentum now so I’m sure not only will they be leveraging the all-stars but I’m sure Sherwood will be sparing no expense in funding segments that will keep viewers tuned in for weeks to come We wish Robin Roberts the best.
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Interesting Celebrities to Follow on Twitter
In days before such social media tools and outlets such as Facebook and Twitter, celebrities had three ways to contact their fans: Personal interview, press release and responding to fan mail. Now, thousands of celebrities now have immediate and widespread contact with fans on the Internet. Whether you are working on your MFA degree in acting and want some celebrity inspiration, or just want something interesting to pass the time, see below for a list of some interesting celebrities to follow on Twitter.
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Celebrities
- MC Hammer – The rapper, minister and reality TV star certainly has his share of eccentric tweets. I caught the “Red-Eye” and now it’s time for “Shut-Eye”!!! I had a little breakfast…. wait.. I might mess up my hair ! oh, Le coconut !!!
- Shaquille O’Neal – The retired basketball star and commenter for the TNT basketball program blurs the line between brilliant art and completely dumfounding statements. Just leavn lebrons party, i have no voice, can u hear this , ………………. C i told u , no voice, lol
- Conan O’Brien – As expected, the late-night talk show host has some humorous tweets. Apologies to Duke fans, but I really wanted Butler to win so I could write “The Butler Did It.”
- Demetri Martin – Martin’s comedy is built on one-liners, so Twitter is perfectly suited for him. Last LA thing. Jamba Juice. Dude asks me what “boost” I want. So I asked if they had “superhero.”
Source
“The Huffington Post” (2010) (7)
Ellen DeGeneres Embarasses the One Million Moms Group and Thanks J.C. Penny [video]
Ellen DeGeneres Takes her turn at the One Million Moms Group on her Show.
With all the anti-gay stuff flying around, the protests, facebook fan pages, tweets, and other nonsense, we heard from almost everybody except Ellen herself.
One Million Moms have been leading the pack saying that J.C. Penney was following the trend of Pro-Gay by hiring Ellen. They referred to it as the “Anti-Gay” Bandwagon. J.C. Penney picked up Ellen to update their clothing and household brand image.
I guess enough was enough for the 52 year old talk show host. She used Tuesday’s taping of her show to fire shots back. That’s what having your own show (or blog) is all about. You can say whatever you want and take as long as you want, and Ellen didn’t let the opportunity pass by.
She kicked things off from her opening monologue, explaining how she would usually let things like this go, but not this time.,
“Normally I try not to pay attention to my haters, but this time I’d like to talk about it because my haters are my motivators.”
“For those of you are just tuning in for the first time, it’s true. I’m gay. I hope you were sitting down,”
“They (One Million Moms) wanted to get me fired and I am proud and happy to say that J.C. Penney stuck by their decision to make me their spokesperson,”
“Being gay or pro-gay isn’t a bandwagon. You don’t get a free ride anywhere. There’s no music. And occasionally we’ll sing ‘We Are Family’ but that’s about it,”
She then laughed about the One Million Moms fan page on face book.
[they] only have 40,000 members on their (Facebook) page. So they’re rounding up to the nearest million and I get that.”
“Normally I try not to pay attention to my haters, but this time I’d like to talk about it because my haters are my motivators.”
Here is the clip from her show:
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