Joan Lunden

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Actress

Former GMA Anchor Joan Lunden Reveals She Has Breast Cancer

Former Good Morning America anchor Joan Lunden returned to the morning show Tuesday to reveal that she was recently diagnosed with breast cancer.

Tue, Jun 24, 2014

Former GMA Anchor Joan Lunden Reveals She Has Breast Cancer

Oprah Says She's Tired, Loves Commercials --- And Eight Other Surprises

Oprah Winfrey's been all over the place promoting her new network, OWN. Over the past few weeks, she's granted many, many interviews, ranging from a sit-down with Barbara Walters to posing for the cover of Parade. To little surprise, millions tuned in to the channel's Jan. 1 debut.   Oprah Winfrey to be the first guest on Piers Morgan Tonight Still, running a network is a big new business for The Queen of Daytime — and she's got more hawking to do! But is there anything left we don't know about Oprah? During the Television Critics Association winter preview on Thursday, Lady O descended a room of TV reporters, and here are 10 things we learned, in no particular order:

Fri, Jan 7, 2011

Oprah Says She's Tired, Loves Commercials --- And Eight Other Surprises

I was wondering who was the ...

Question: I was wondering who was the first female host of Good Morning America. I say Joan Lunden. Actually, I bet my sister a gift certificate that it was. Who's right? While you're at it, when did it first come on? Thank you, sir.Answer: You're quite welcome, ma'am, but you'll still be buying sis that certificate. There were two female cohosts paired off with original host David Hartman before Lunden. When Good Morning America launched in November 1975, actress Nancy Dussault shared the set with him. After a year, she departed and Sandy Hill was brought in. But Hill, who had worked as a reporter, wasn't happy being tied to the set and, according to rumors, wasn't exactly best friends with Hartman, who was credited with allowing ABC to mount its first serious challenge to the morning dominance of NBC's

Tue, Jan 10, 2006