Katie Couric and Josh Elliott
One lesson learned in this wearying week of morning-show warfare: Some people should never give up their dream day job. Which is why it was so gratifying for the week to end with the announcement that Today's Matt Lauer was staying put for years to come. I'd like to think he saw the future — or maybe Today's future — staring at him on Wednesday, when he sat across from...
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Oprah Winfrey
At Thursday's Discovery Communications upfront, Oprah Winfrey told attendees that longtime executive producer Sheri Salata has always wanted Oprah to climb Mount Kilimanjaro.
VIDEO: Oprah Winfrey gets candid about OWN's struggles; says she thought about quitting last week
Though we don't expect to see Winfrey hiking any time soon, the metaphor was apt.
"I am climbing Kilimanjaro, and it's on Wilshire Boulevard at the OWN offices," Winfrey said, addressing the challenges she's faced in the first 14 months after launching her own cable channel. Earlier this week, Winfrey said she considered throwing in the towel ...
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Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin joined the "lame-stream media" Tuesday when she co-hosted the Today show and talked about everything from politics to Jessica Simpson's pregnancy weight gain.
The former vice presidential candidate first appeared as a guest in the 7 o'clock hour, during which Matt Lauer asked her about the Republican primaries ...
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Oprah Winfrey
It's been an uphill battle for Oprah Winfrey and the OWN Network since its launch in January 2011, and nobody knows that better than Winfrey herself.
Appearing on CBS' This Morning Monday, the former talk show host admitted that given a chance to go back, she may not have chosen the same path again. "The idea of creating a network was something that I'd wanted to do," Winfrey said. "Had I known that it...
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Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz
Once again testing the audience's willingness to follow Bones all over prime time, Fox follows up its non-surprise eighth-season renewal by moving the enjoyable romantic/forensic procedural to yet another night: Mondays at 8/7c, in front of the ...
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Lady Gaga
Ever wonder what Lady Gaga looks like au naturel? Surprisingly girly!
"Have a beautiful day!!!" the performer tweeted on Monday along with a makeup-less photo of herself, complete with a flower behind her ear.
Lady Gaga: I don't plan to do interviews for a very long time
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Susan Lucci and Vincent Irizarry
Doesn't anyone want this golden gal anymore? The Daytime Emmy nominations will be announced May 4, but so far no network has agreed to air the ceremony. A rep for the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences claims negotiations are still in play, but insiders say a live Internet feed may be more likely than a telecast. The awards, even if they're a no-cameras affair, are expected to take place June 23 in Beverly Hills.
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Rosie O'Donnell
Rosie O'Donnell says she has no hard feelings toward OWN for canceling The Rosie Show because it was a "fair" fate for a show she wrongfully presumed would be easy to do.
OWN axes The Rosie Show
"It was fair," O'Donnell said in a video posted on YouTube on Monday. "Listen, Oprah [Winfrey] gave me an amazing shot at doing this. She really did. She put me back on TV. She believed in me. I didn't even know ...
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Oprah Winfrey
Just days after canceling The Rosie Show, Oprah Winfrey laid off 30 people at OWN network in what is reportedly a major restructuring at the channel, according to Deadline.com.
The site reports that among the high-profile layoffs...
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Lady Gaga, Oprah
Lady Gaga says she's going silent.
She made the declaration during a sit-down with Oprah Winfrey on Oprah's Next Chapter Sunday night. "Other than this interview, Oprah, I do not intend to speak to anyone for a very long time," she said. "The newest thing I do [is that] I don't read a damn thing. No press, no television ... I shut it all off."
That statement perhaps explains why Gaga, who is usually the center of attention on every red carpet she walks, skipped the press line at the Grammys last month.
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