Geraldo Rivera | |
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Born | Gerald Riviera July 4, 1943 New York City, U.S. |
Education | State University of New York Maritime College University of Arizona (BS) Brooklyn Law School (JD) |
Occupation | Journalist, talk show host, writer, attorney |
Years active | 1970âpresent |
Jerry Springer | |
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Political party | Democratic |
Spouse(s) | Micki Velton â â ( m. 1973; div. 1994)â |
Children | 1 |
Judge Jerry | |
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Related shows | Jerry Springer |
Net Worth: | $60 Million |
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Salary: | $8 Million |
Date of Birth: | Feb 13, 1944 (78 years old) |
Gender: | Male |
Height: | 6 ft (1.83 m) |
Mel Robbins, who invented the famous self-help â5 Second Rule,â says her upcoming daytime talk show is focused on everyday people â and not celebrities.
Sheâs now the worldâs most-booked female-empowerment speaker, but says she didnât immediately jump at the chance to host âThe Mel Robbins Showâ when Sony came calling. âThey reached out a year ago and asked if I was interested in a daytime show and I naively thought, âI reach millions of people a day online. Iâm not sure,â â she says. âIt wasnât until I understood the impact and the reach and the way in which when you have a platform like this you can truly impact peopleâs lives.
Tim Russert. Timothy John Russert (May 7, 1950 â June 13, 2008) was an American television journalist and lawyer who appeared for more than 16 years as the longest-serving moderator of NBC 's Meet the Press. He was a senior vice president at NBC News, Washington bureau chief and also hosted an eponymous CNBC / MSNBC weekend interview program.
Russert assumed the job of host of the Sunday morning program Meet the Press in 1991, and would become the longest-serving host of the program.
According to The Washington Post, Russert testified that "when any senior government official calls him, they are presumptively off the record," saying: "when I talk to senior government officials on the phone, it's my own policy our conversations are confidential.
At the February debate, Russert was criticized for what some perceived as disproportionately tough questioning of Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton. Among the questions, Russert had asked Clinton, but not Obama, to provide the name of the new Russian President ( Dmitry Medvedev ).
Russert's remarks would suggest a form of journalism that does not raise the insolent question from outside polite political discourseâso, if an administration's political foes aren't making an opposing case, it's unlikely to get made. In the words of one of my former editors, journalists can read the polls just like anybody else.
Prior to becoming host of Meet the Press, Russert ran one of U.S. Senator Daniel Moynihan 's five major law offices based in Buffalo, New York. He later served as special counsel and as chief of staff to Moynihan, a Democrat from Hell's Kitchen, New York.
Russert was also a Buffalo Sabres fan and appeared on an episode of Meet the Press next to the Stanley Cup during a Sabres playoff run. While his son was attending Boston College, he often ended Meet the Press with a mention of the success of various Boston College sports teams .
The history of attorneys on TV dates back to the 1950s with the appearance of âMr. Maloneâ on NBC in 1951. The genre is alive and well today with more than a dozen law-related shows on broadcast television at any one time, not to mention the shows available on cable and streaming networks.
20. Harvey Birdman, âHarvey Birdman, âAttorney at Lawâ. The first thing that should be noted is that Harvey Birdman is the only lawyer that has âAttorney at Lawâ in the title of his show.
During the 17 seasons that âLaw & Orderâ was on the air, McCoy went from private practice to assistant district attorney to district attorney, bringing down some of the vilest criminals to appear against him
That should count for something, shouldnât it? Birdman isnât much of a lawyer, but he often wins his cases, mostly through sheer luck.
Speaking of bad lawyering, you canât have a list like this without including Winger. Anyone who has a degree from Colombia (as opposed to Columbia) already gets my vote. Unlike some of the names on this list, Winger was actually good at his job, just a victim of circumstances and pettiness.
Ben Matlock, âMatlockâ. A gentlemanly Southern lawyer , Matlock may have moved slow and was tight with a buck, but he always got his man or woman. The homespun philosophy that you received every episode was a bonus as was the ability to watch Andy Griffith continue to ply his trade. 6. Jackie Chiles, âSeinfeldâ.
Not necessarily the attorney you want to call if you want to beat a case legitimately.
Despite Rivers breaking the glass ceiling nearly 30 years ago, late-night TV remains as much of a boys club today as it was during Carsonâs martinis-and-strip-steak prime, and Rivers remains the only woman ever to host a network late-night talk show. 28. Space Ghost.
The most exciting moment in late-night television since a gap-toothed Indiana weatherman slid into late night on CBS will take place on September 8, 2015, when Stephen Colbert takes over for said Hoosier, David Letterman, as host of The Late Show. Frankly, Colbert is too brilliant a performer to be a major-network late-night talk-show host in 2015 â he makes Fallon and Kimmel look like morning-zoo jocks in comparison â but his error in judgment is our good fortune. For ten years on The Colbert Report, he turned his bloviating right-wing newsman character, fake-mourning the loss of the white manâs paradise, into a fully dimensional, even lovable guy â more Homer Simpson than Peter Griffin. In real life, Colbert is a science-fiction-reading, Sunday-school-teaching father of three with an abiding sense of social justice, as evidenced in his testimony before a congressional subcommittee on the rights of migrant workers (âI like talking about people who donât have any powerâ). Most of all, though, Colbert is wickedly funny, and seems too smart to play dumb, even for a major-network paycheck. Or at least we can hope.
Snyder was a caricature in human form: tall, pompous, with unruly sideburns and a comb-over that began just above his right ear.
32. Jay Leno. First he elbowed aside David Letterman in order to inherit The Tonight Show from Johnny Carson (who clearly preferred Dave) in 1992.
Soon after he became host of The Tonight Show in the summer of 1957, Paar was the first king of late night. The key to his appeal, said Dick Cavett, âwas danger.â. Paar cried on-camera, spoke out about politics, beefed with critics, and one night, annoyed with actor Mickey Rooney, threw him off the show.
He was the booby prize. Comedy Central didnât want to lose Craig Kilborn , the original host of The Daily Show, and after CBS lured Kilborn away with network-size money in 1999, the cable channel sued him for breach of contract. Then they turned to Jon Stewart, whoâd had more success as a fake replacement talk-show host on The Larry Sanders Show than heâd had hosting an actual talk show for about 18 months in the mid-â90s, mostly on MTV. Turned out Stewart was way funnier when he wasnât pretending to care about Blind Melon or Bronson Pinchot. Starting with âIndecision 2000,â the former stand-up comic exposed what Tom Brokaw calls the âabsurdities, hypocrisies, [and] juveniliaâ of the political charade. Satire was too weak a word â when Stewart attacked targets small (Chris Wallace) or big (Douglas Feith), there was an actual punch to his punch lines. Stewartâs âfake newsâ show offered more analysis and courage than any other TV program, and with his array of blank stares, double takes, and openmouthed, bug-eyed outrage, he became the Meryl Streep of reaction shots. Fittingly, the booby prize went on to win the Thurber Prize for American Humor.
Johnny Carson. When Jack Paar left The Tonight Show, NBC offered the gig to Carson, a comedian in his late 30s who was hosting a game show. He turned it down. The job came with too much pressure â âPeople said, âNobody will ever replace Paar,ââ Carson recalled.
In October 2021, Steyn began covering for Nigel Farage on his prime-time show 'Farage' on GB News on Fridays and has been a relief presenter for Farage on weekdays.
In a July 2005 column for National Review, Steyn criticized Andrew Jaspan, then the editor of The Age, an Australian newspaper. Jaspan was offended by Douglas Wood, an Australian kidnapped and held hostage in Iraq, who after his rescue referred to his captors as "arseholes.".
The federal Canadian Human Rights Commission dismissed the Canadian Islamic Congress' complaint against Maclean's in June 2008. The CHRC's ruling said of the article that, "the writing is polemical, colourful and emphatic, and was obviously calculated to excite discussion and even offend certain readers, Muslim and non-Muslim alike." However, the Commission ruled that overall, "the views expressed in the Steyn article, when considered as a whole and in context, are not of an extreme nature, as defined by the Supreme Court."
Steyn has contributed to the blog Ricochet.com and recorded numerous podcasts with the organization. Steyn has guest-host ed The Rush Limbaugh Show. From December 2016 to February 2017, Steyn hosted "The Mark Steyn Show" on the CRTV Digital Network.
Williams is a national spokesman of the Partnership for Prescription Assistance (PPA), a patient assistance program clearinghouse that helps low-income patients apply for free or reduced-price prescription drugs. On November 30, 2007, while in Savannah, Georgia, to promote PPA, he threatened reporters following an earlier interview at which Courtney Scott, a 17-year-old high school intern reporter for the Savannah Morning News, had asked him whether restriction of pharmaceutical profits would discourage research and development of new drugs. Angered by the question, Williams subsequently terminated that videotaped interview; Williams later ran into Scott in his hotel and threatened to "blow [her] up".
Williams began The Montel Williams Show (syndicated by CBS Paramount Television) in 1991. In 1996, Williams received a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host. Ratings for the show peaked during the 1996â97 season, with a 4.4 average rating. He was again nominated for Outstanding Talk Show Host in 2002, and the Montel Williams Show was nominated for Outstanding Talk Show in 2001 and 2002.
Speculation followed the end of The Montel Williams Show, which was cancelled immediately after Williams criticized mainstream news media's preference for stories about Hollywood stars over those about military personnel and events. Commentators felt his statements may have alienated the Fox TV Network.
Montel Brian Anthony Williams (born July 3, 1956) is an American former television host, actor and motivational speaker. He is best known as host of the long-running daytime tabloid talk show The Montel Williams Show, which ran in syndication from 1991 to 2008. He currently hosts "Military Makeover: Operation Career" on Lifetime. Williams is active with the nonprofit MS Foundation, which he founded after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1999. Additionally, he is noted for his service in both the United States Marine Corps and the United States Navy, from which he retired after 22 years of service.
Controversial self-declared psychic Sylvia Browne featured frequently on The Montel Williams Show from 1991 until its finale in 2008. Williams described Browne as "the most-appearing guest on a talk show in the history of television" and "the longest-running guest in daytime television", and her appearances included particularly controversial incidents relating to kidnap victims Shawn Hornbeck and Amanda Berry. Williams was criticized for allowing his high-profile show to serve as a channel for Browne, notably by fellow retired military officer Hal Bidlack, with Bidlack publicly asking, "Commander Williams, have you lost your honor?" In February 2019, an episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver featured a segment on television psychics and Williams' association with Browne was criticized.
Williams married Grace Morley, a burlesque dancer on June 6, 1992. They have a son, Montel Brian Hank Williams (b. 1993), and a daughter, Wyntergrace Williams (b. 1994). The couple divorced in 2000. In 2001, Williams briefly dated Kamala Harris, who later went on to become Vice President of the United States.
Williams work has been criticized by the Independent Investigations Group, which declared The Montel Williams Show to be noteworthy Truly Terrible Television with its satirical TTTV award (for similar reasons, awarded to "every episode featuring Sylvia Browne").
Two weeks after graduating, Williams began her career as a disc jockey working for the small, calypso and reggae -oriented WVIS in Frederiksted, U.S. Virgin Islands, but disliked the role because she did not learn as much about radio from her colleagues as she expected. Due to low pay and isolation from her family, Williams began sending resumes and demo tapes of herself to other radio stations. She left WVIS after eight months and obtained a position at Washington, D.C. 's WOL in 1987, but found its oldies radio format incompatible with her personality. Williams continued sending tapes to other stations and was hired by New York City's WQHT in November 1987 to fill-in on weekends. After the urban contemporary station hired her full-time in 1988 to work overnight shifts, she left WOL.
Wu-Tang Clan performer Method Man had a personal and publicized conflict with Williams in 2006 after she revealed details about his wife's cancer diagnosis. In 2014, Williams and two others produced a biopic on the early 2000s R&B artist Aaliyah, entitled Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B.
Prior to television, Williams was a radio DJ and host and quickly became known in New York as a shock jockette. She gained notoriety for her on-air spats with celebrities and was the subject of the 2006 VH1 reality television series The Wendy Williams Experience, which broadcast events surrounding her radio show.
Williams had not missed an episode of her talk show until February 2018, when she took one week off; however, on February 21, 2018, Williams announced that her show would be on three weeks' hiatus due to her complications with Graves' disease and hyperthyroidism. In January 2019, a statement from the Williams Hunter family revealed that Williams had been hospitalized due to complications from Graves' disease and that her return to the show would be delayed indefinitely as a result. Guest hosts such as Nick Cannon filled in for Wendy during her absence; she returned on March 4, 2019. In early March 2020, the show discontinued its live audience for two tapings due to the coronavirus pandemic; Williams's staff filled in the seats. Shortly thereafter, production on the show was halted. The show reemerged as The Wendy Williams Show @ Home, broadcast through video chat from Williams's apartment, and continuing through May 15, when production was halted again due to a flare in Williams's Graves disease. In July 2020, Williams announced that her show would be returning to live broadcasting in-studio on September 21, 2020. In 2020, Williams competed on the fourth season of The Masked Singer as "Lips" where she was mostly sitting due to the weight of the costume. She performed the song " Native New Yorker " by Odyssey and was eliminated and unmasked after her first appearance. Williams signed a deal with the US network Lifetime for a documentary, Wendy Williams: What a Mess! and a TV movie, Wendy Williams: The Movie based on her life.
Williams ' other endeavors include authoring several books, appearances in various films and television shows, and her own product lines, including a fashion line, a jewellery collection and a wig line. Williams was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 2009.
Personal life. Williams' first husband was Bert Girigorie. In her 2003 autobiography, she refers to him under a pseudonym and says they separated after five months and divorced about eighteen months later. Williams married her second husband, Kevin Hunter, on November 30, 1999.
From talk show hosts to rock stars, here are 10 celebrities who have a background in law enforcement. 1. Erik Estrada. Erik Estrada played a California Highway Patrol officer in his career-defining role on âCHiPs,â so itâs only fitting he got around to becoming the real thing. Although he didnât join CHP, he did become a reserve officer with ...
Dennis Farina. Character actor Dennis Farina was still working as a Chicago cop when he took on his first roles in the iconic Michael Mann TV show âMiami Viceâ and the films âThiefâ and âManhunter.â. He would be later known for his work as homicide detective Joe Fontana on âLaw & Order.â.
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Dan Aykroyd isnât just a Blues Brother and Ghostbuster â heâs also spent nearly two decades as a reserve officer, first in Louisiana and then in Mississippi. He helps agencies in need of supplies through the Blue Line Foundation and makes donations out of his own pocket. Aykroyd has frequently championed law enforcement in what he recognizes as a difficult time for the profession, and has used his celebrity to try to get police agencies the gear and support they need.
Conan O'Brien grew up in a large, Irish Catholic family in Massachusetts. At an early age, he developed a love of comedy and goofing off, this carried on when he entered the prestigious Harvard University, acting out many pranks in his time, as well as become the president of the Harvard humor ...
Johnny Carson, the legendary "King of Late Night TV" who dominated the medium's nether hours for three decades, was born in Corning, Iowa, but moved with his family to nearby Norfolk, Nebraska when he was eight years old. It was in Norfolk, where he lived until he was inducted into the US Navy in ...
Television would never be the same after David Letterman made his second attempt at a show in 1982. But his career before becoming host of the show was quite an interesting and long one. Letterman was born in Broad Ripple, a neighborhood in Indianapolis, to Dorothy Marie (Hofert), a church secretary...
Jon Stewart was born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz in New York City, New York, to Marian (Laskin), a teacher, and Donald Leibowitz, a physics professor. His family is Ashkenazi Jewish (from Austria, Ukraine, Poland, and Belarus). Stewart moved to Lawrenceville, New Jersey during his childhood. He ...
Craig Ferguson is an actor, known for Hamish Macbeth (1995) and The Play on One (1988).
Stephen Tyrone Colbert (pronounced "col-BEAR") was born on May 13, 1964 in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Charleston, South Carolina. He is the son of Lorna Elizabeth (Tuck) and James William Colbert, Jr., a doctor and medical school dean at Yale, Saint Louis University, and MUSC. He is the ...
John Oliver was born on April 23, 1977 in Birmingham, England as John William Oliver. He is a writer and producer, known for Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (2014), The Lion King (2019) and The Smurfs (2011). He has been married to Kate Norley since October 2011. They have two children.