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  • Birth Name: Bryant Charles Gumbel
  • Birth Place: New Orleans, LA
  • Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 09/29/1948, Libra
  • Profession: TV host; sportscaster; news anchor
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Bryant Gumbel Reveals Lung Cancer Surgery

Bryant Gumbel underwent cancer surgery two months ago to remove a malignant tumor in his lung, he announced on Tuesday's Live with Regis and Kelly.

Gumbel, who filled in for Regis Philbin, made the announcement after telling Kelly Ripa he could not dance due to the surgery and a "note from my doctor."

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"They opened up my chest. They took a malignant tumor, part of my lung and some other ...
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Real Sports Interviews Olympian Usain Bolt

Fans of sports magazine shows get a double bonus Tuesday night with the return of Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel and a new episode of ESPN's year-old E: 60. On Real Sports (10 pm/ET, HBO), Gumbel travels to Jamaica to interview Olympic gold-medal-winning sprinter Usain Bolt. Though the world-record speedster isn't a big talker, the piece offers a nice snapshot of his life both before and after the Beijing Games. Bolt tells Gumbel...read more

Gumbel Exits NFL Network Gig

Bryant Gumbel has told the NFL Network he won't return for another season as play-by-play man in the booth during games.Gumbel has called games for two seasons and was panned by critics from the start. NFL Network did not indicate if Gumbel's broadcast partner, Cris Collinsworth, would return."We've agreed that we'd all be better served going in different directions," Gumbel said. "There are a lot of talented people at NFL Network. I thank them, I wish them well, and I have no doubt that they will be very successful going forward." —J.R. Whalenread more


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Posted: 10/31/2007
Dec. 8 - The former 'Today' show anchor says he had a tumor and part of his lung removed two months ago.
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Posted: 12/9/2009
The TV personality disclosed that he underwent surgery on his lung cancer.
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Posted: 12/8/2009
Hearing Bryant Gumbel say the F-word a couple times isn;t nearly as startling as hearing him speak in even the slightest non-overly-enunciated journalist cadence. If they ever make a movie about Pac Man Jones, surely they;re going to cast Gumbel - his "I;ll have all you MF-ers smoked" line was so convincing, I really believed that he was going to have me smoked and also that I was a motherf***er.
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Posted: 4/29/2009
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Title Year Type
An American Thanksgiving (Host) 2006 TV Show Series
Thursday Night Football (Play-By-Play) 2006 TV Show Series
The Weather Man (Actor - Himself) 2005 Movie
Flashpoints USA (Host) 2003 TV Show Series
Early Show (Anchor) 1999 TV Show Series

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My favorite TV moment this week...

My favorite TV moment this week (granted, I've been on the road and haven't watched a lot) occurred early Wednesday morning, as Matt Lauer defused the mawkish sentiment on the Today set in the wake of Katie Couric's long-awaited announcement that she would be leaving soon for CBS.

"Also coming up in this half hour..." Lauer quipped, as the Today crew (a great group, as I can attest to from the experience of being on the show a handful of times) broke into laughter.

What I loved about that gag was how it underscored the fact that life on Today would go on, no doubt quite robustly, after the Katie Couric era ends. (There have been so many: the Bryant Gumbel-Jane Pauley era; the Barbara Walters-Hugh Downs era; and so on).

This is a historic shift, no question, and shouldn't be underestimated even as it's overanaly read more

Better Early Than Never
CBS producer Steve Friedman on revamping the net's mornings

There probably isn't anyone on Earth who has produced more hours of morning television than Steve Friedman. In two stints and 10 years of producing NBC's Today, he worked with Tom Brokaw, Jane Pauley, Bryant Gumbel, Katie Couric and Matt Lauer. He devised the show's street-level studio in Rockefeller Plaza, which has become a major Manhattan attraction. He led CBS' effort to become a serious player in morning TV when he launched The Early Show with Gumbel and Jane Clayson in 1999. The show has never challenged Today or ABC's Good Morning America in the ratings, but it has become a significant profit center for CBS News. Friedman followed pal Gumbel out of CBS in 2002, but the network's current news president Sean McManus has brought him back — as vice president in charge of morning broadcasts — in the hopes that Friedman can take The Early Show to the next level. The Biz talked with him about how read more

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