GoodMorningAmerica-related stories
Posted Oct 22nd 2009 9:02AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: OpEd, Daytime, Celebrities, Talk Show, Reality-Free
With
Diane Sawyer moving from Good Morning, America to
World News Tonight, ABC is reportedly hunting around for just the right person to become the new
GMA host. The names bandied about include George Stephanopoulos, Bill Weir, Chris Cuomo, David Muir and
Cameron Mathison. I am telling you right now,
Cameron Mathison would be perfect for Good Morning, America.
While the other men mentioned are all involved in news, Cameron is on
All My Children. He's an actor. But he's also an attractive performer and an ABC talent on the rise. He was a contestant on
Dancing with the Stars, and even though he didn't win, he won over a lot of non-soap viewers who'd never seen him before.
Continue reading Cameron Mathison would be perfect for Good Morning, America
Posted Sep 8th 2009 9:00PM by Brad Trechak
Things are getting a little heated for everyone's favorite dysfunctional family. No, not
The Simpsons. I'm referring to Jon Gosselin, the former patriarch of
Jon and Kate Plus Eight, who
declared on Good Morning America that he "despises" his ex-wife and former co-star, Kate. And here I thought "TLC" also meant "tender loving care".
People, do you remember all those "reality" programs that so many of you adore so much? They're all fake. This is the sort of reason I can't stand reality television. While there is no formal "script", the people on those shows are as much characters as those on
Battlestar Galactica, except the writing isn't as good.
As a note to anybody famous considering divorce: if you do decide to go through with it, practice some tact and don't make it the headline of every tabloid that points a microphone in your face. This entire situation is schadenfreude at its worst.
Posted Sep 5th 2009 5:01PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: News, OpEd, Celebrities, Reality-Free
It was big news this week about
Charlie Gibson retiring. Later on, when the headline flashed that Charlie was "livid" that Diane Sawyer was chosen to succeed him at the
ABC World News anchor desk, I have to admit I was stunned. Why on earth would
Charlie Gibson be so vexed by his former
Good Morning America partner taking on the job he had chosen to give up?
The Daily Beast story claimed that his reaction came from a unnamed source, and that's what
Variety's BLTV was writing about today. He suggested that perhaps the reporter, Rebecca Dana, had relied too much on scuttlebutt and chose to believe that Gibson was ticked off and, thus, went with the story.
Continue reading Is Charlie Gibson livid about Diane Sawyer succeeding him?
Posted Sep 2nd 2009 6:26PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: OpEd, Daytime, Celebrities, Talk Show, Reality-Free
If you just watched the crowd while
Whitney Houston performed in Central Park on Good Morning, America today, you might have thought that Whitney was doing great. However, if you had the volume on, you know better.
Sadly, Whitney Houston's
GMA appearance was sad. Her voice cracked and she seemed to be struggling to sing one of her biggest hits, "I'm Every Woman," which ironically was used as the theme for
The Oprah Winfrey Show for years. I say ironically because Whitney explained to the fans at one point that her voice was a wreck because she had talked too much during her appearance on
Oprah earlier in the week. Ouch!
The entire appearance was enough to make you cringe. At one point, Whitney called her daughter, Bobbi Kristina, out to the stage to sing with her. Bobbi has grown into a beautiful young woman from the teenager she was on
Being Bobby Brown, the infamous Bravo reality show starring Whitney and then hubby Bobby.
Continue reading Whitney Houston's cringeworthy GMA appearance
Posted May 18th 2009 11:25AM by Kona Gallagher
Filed under: Interviews, Celebrities, Talk Show, Reality-Free
Recently, I got the chance to speak with
Sam Champion, the affable
Good Morning America weatherman. We chatted a bit about
GMA's upcoming
Summer Concert Series, which is kicking off on May 22. The free concerts have moved from Bryant Park to Central Park this year, which allows for much larger audiences. So you know what that means, right? More space for screaming throngs of Jonas Brothers fans to gather in a central location this summer.
Read the interview to figure out when you need to book your trip to New York, or get the hell out of the city -- depending on your perspective.
Continue reading GMA's Sam Champion tells you how to see The Jonas Brothers for free
Posted May 7th 2009 3:03PM by Nick Zaino
Filed under: News, Web, Reality-Free
The announcement of an
ABC News branded channel on YouTube yesterday is a little puzzling. First, if you go to the site, the info bar indicates that "ABC News" joined YouTube August 7, 2006. So, maybe they've been working feverishly for nearly three years on this, and they were finally ready to tell people about it.
The site will feature news from several ABC programs, like
Good Morning America,
20/20,
Nightline,
ABC World News, and
This Week with George Stephanopoulos. And, as a bonus, we get the "Quick Fix" segment, which ABC called "a daily dose of wit and occasionally wisdom" from ABC correspondents.
Continue reading The wit and wisdom of ABC News on YouTube
Posted Aug 19th 2008 2:02PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Celebrities, Samantha Who?, Reality-Free
When it was revealed to the media recently that
actress Christina Applegate had cancer, it was a shock. She is only 36 years old, but as anyone whose life has been touched by cancer, this disease touches the young and the old and everyone in between.
Today, the star of ABC's
Samantha Who? was on
Good Morning, America to explain what's happening with her, and
Christina declared that she is now cancer-free. "Absolutely 100 percent clear and clean. It did not spread. They got everything out, so I'm definitely not going to die from breast cancer."
In an exclusive, candid interview, she revealed that three weeks ago she had a double mastectomy to remove all traces of breast cancer. She will have reconstructive surgery over the next eight months to replace her breasts.
I really admire Christina Applegate. I've liked her a lot on
Samantha Who?, but to do what she did today makes me like her even more. She didn't have to face the media and talk about her cancer. It takes courage to share your story.
And having a positive diagnosis, to be able to say you're cancer-free, doesn't make it any easier to talk about the fear you face when you were told that you have cancer and must undergo a difficult surgery or chemotherapy or radiation.
Continue reading Christina Applegate is cancer-free
Posted Mar 7th 2008 8:42PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: News, Daytime, Celebrities, Talk Show
Is Kathie Lee Gifford coming back to daytime? Does Regis know; does he care? Well, whatever the case with Reeg, there is talk that La Kathie Lee may be ready for a new talk show gig.
In the
Hollywood Reporter,
Today executive producer Jim Bell said
Kathie Lee Gifford is on the short list as a co-host for the fourth hour of the show. "I think she's a great talent," he said of KLG, while adding that other names are in the hopper as well.
Continue reading Kathy Lee Gifford co-hosting Today's fourth hour?
Posted Jan 16th 2008 8:11PM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: OpEd, Video, Celebrities, Talk Show
Diane Keaton totally dropped the F-Bomb on Good Morning America! And they didn't even bleep it.
Keaton was being interviewed by Diane Sawyer, presumably about her new movie
Mad Money. Sawyer is about to pose a question when Diane Keaton stops and compliments her on her lips (which are
quite nice, I must say). Keaton laments that
she doesn't have such nice lips cause if she did, she wouldn't have to work so damn hard on her "f*cking personality."
This is why I "heart" Diane Keaton. Of the two Dianes, clearly Keaton has the personality. She doesn't have to work on it.
The video is after the jump...
Continue reading Diane Keaton drops F-bomb on GMA - VIDEO
Posted Aug 27th 2007 7:04AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Celebrities, Dancing With The Stars
The official word doesn't come until this Wednesday (on a super-duper special
Good Morning America, if you've seen the commercials ABC is running), but Sports Illustrated is
reporting that billionaire and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is one of the celebs that will grace
Dancing with the Stars this season.
But wait that's not all! Other stars
rumored to have boogie fever this season are Wayne Newton, Jane Seymour, and Giselle Bunchen (there are many others rumored too but those three seem the most probable.)
Continue reading Mark Cuban joins Dancing with the Stars
Posted Oct 12th 2006 4:17PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: ABC, Daytime, Celebrities
Is Diane Sawyer the worst interviewer or what?
Here's part one of her interview this morning with Mel Gibson on
Good Morning, America. She seems to ask all the right questions, but in the end, not really. She just barrels through the questions, in that "this is a celebrity, let's be more touchy-feeling with him instead of investigative-reporter-ish with him" sort of way. You can see why Gibson chose her. She has that air of respectability, but in reality she's slow pitch softball ("Where does this anger come from?"). Maybe we should hold judgement until the second half of the interview airs tomorrow, but this clip just looks like a
Daily Show parody than a real interview. The interruptions are annoying (why so many voiceovers?).
It's worth it though to hear Gibson talk about choking his toaster. And, no, that's not a euphemism for anything dirty. (Video after the jump.)
Continue reading Diane Sawyer asks Mel Gibson some questions - VIDEO
Posted Oct 6th 2006 12:44PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: ABC, Daytime, Celebrities, Talk Show
Good Morning America's Diane Sawyer
will speak with Mel Gibson on October 12 and 13.
She actually set up the interview a few months ago, because it is supposed to be about his new movie
Apocalypto. But you just know that Sawyer is going to ask him about a certain incident involving a California highway, some alcohol, and some cops. Or maybe not, since Sawyer has been a terrible journalist ever since...well, ever since I can remember. So maybe she'll ask him what he thinks of puppies, and nod in that understanding head nod journalists do so well, and not really grill him as to why drinking too much alcohol makes you say hateful things.
Seriously, what would
you ask Mel Gibson if you could sit down with him for an hour or so?
[via
TV Newser]
Posted Apr 3rd 2006 9:52AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: News
This gives new meaning to that
old advice that you should never talk politics at the office. It also gives fuel to the fire that the mass media is
full of liberal, left-wingers. The executive producer for
Good Morning America Weekend is serving a one-month
suspension for writing nasty things about President Bush in a company e-mail. The e-mail was written back on September
30, 2004 by producer John Green to a colleague about a Bush-Kerry debate. It said, "Are you watching this? Bush
makes me sick. If he uses the 'mixed messages' line one more time I think I'm going to puke."
The
e-mail turned up two weeks ago on
Matt Drudge's website. Green has since
apologized. He's been the executive producer of
GMA Weekend since it launched in 2004.
Posted Sep 1st 2005 10:53AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: ABC, Talent, Daytime
So, who got the first television interview with Jennifer Aniston since the whole Brad and Angelina mess? Good Morning, America's Diane Sawyer won the interview, according to Cindy Adams over at The New York Post.
The article doesn't really say when the interview will air, it just says "GMA trumpets that interview in the next few weeks," which sounds to me like they are going to promote it in a few weeks but air it later? Someone help me with that sentence.
Posted Jun 21st 2005 4:19PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: ABC, NBC, News, Talent, Daytime, Vs.
They've been in the news lately, battling for the best guests on their morning shows. Who do you like to watch more?
- Katie Couric: The Today Show
- Diane Sawyer: Good Morning, America
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