Katie Couric has confirmed what everyone pretty much knew – she’s leaving CBS’ Evening News even though she denied it just two weeks ago. She confirmed this in a statement to People:
“I have decided to step down from the CBS Evening News. “I’m really proud of the talented team on the CBS Evening News and the award-winning work we’ve been able to do in the past five years in addition to the reporting I’ve done for 60 Minutes and CBS Sunday Morning. In making the decision to move on, I know the Evening News will be in great hands, but I am excited about the future. I am looking at a format that will allow me to engage in more multi-dimensional storytelling. The bottom line is that I love doing all kinds of different stories. I have a lot of areas of interest and I want to be able to fulfill all of that.”
No word on what network or even what type of show she will move on to once her contract runs up in June but it’s rumored that ABC are hoping to make a bid for, there’s also rumors that she could end up with a slot on CBS’ 60 Minutes.
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This week has been full or rumors and reports of people leaving their seats as TV journalists and presenters, the latest comes in the form of Matt Lauer who is supposedly leaving The Today Show when his contract expires next year.
Entertainment Tonight report that Lauer’s contract expires on December 31st 2012 and he has no intentions to sign the dotted line on another contract. This comes hot off the heels of the news that his co-presenter Meredith Vieria may not renew her contract for Today when it expires later this year. Today show bosses released a statement saying:
“There seems to be an awful lot of speculation around news anchors these days, and it’s not our practice to comment on any of it. Matt Lauer has a long term contract with NBC News and ‘Today.’ The Today Show anchors are currently under contract and firmly in place.”"
This all comes with the news that Matt’s former Today Show co-host, Katie Couric, is also leaving her gig on the Evening News after joining the show back in 2006.
Now there are rumors that both Matt and Katie are planning on teaming up with Jeff Zucker, the former Today Show exec producer, and launch their own show. I guess time will tell how this all pans out.
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Jordan, aka Katie Price, has decided to quit her music career before it even got started because her single flopped.
Katie released her debut single ‘Free To Love Again’ in the UK recently but it failed to even make the top 40 charts so she took the hint that nobody wants her and has quit.
A source says “Katie wants to concentrate on what she does best 100%. She knows what she’s good at whether its writing books, modelling or appearing on her own reality show but the pop career isn’t for her.”
Katie, who was supposed to perform at London’s G-A-Y club this weekend, says…
“It’s with great regret and disappointment that I will not perform at this Saturday’s G-A-Y. Following recent events, it has been decided that this performance should be pulled from my schedule. After much consideration the last thing I want to do is put on a show which I am not completely happy with.”
Let’s all join hands and thank god for her making decision. The single was absolutely awful.
source: Katie Price ‘quits pop music’ [Digital Spy]
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Today is the day that Lindsay Lohan is heading to the slammer so why not celebrate it with her new spread in Complex magazine in which she looks kinda sexy.
Yes I said she looks kinda sexy and I know it’s pretty much all thanks to the wonderful photoshopping that the editors at Complex did. In the article that comes with these photos they say that Lindsay showed up hours late for the photoshoot and she never gave the interview that she was supposed to.
Now lets get to the news roundup that is surrounding Lohan before she heads to the chokey. First up is her newly hired lawyer, Robert Shapiro, has just quit working for her and as of yet nobody knows who will be representing her when she hands herself in today.
The second piece of news is that Lindsay will be going full frontal nude for her new movie Inferno, which is based on the life of Linda Lovelace. The movie is set to go into production when Lohan completes her jail stint and 90 days in rehab.
As for heading to jail today, Lindsay went to her Twitter account last night and wrote “the only “bookings” that i’m familiar with are Disney Films, never thought that i’d be “booking” into Jail… eeeks.”
That is all for now, I’m sure by time you finish reading this there will be another 20 stories coming out about Lindsay Lohan on her big day.
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source: Lindsay Lohan Covers Complex’s August/September 2010 Issue! [Complex]
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Katherine Heigl has been whining and giving out about her gig on Grey’s Anatomy but she has finally gotten her wish and is leaving the show.
Back in September 2009 she and her husband, Josh Kelley, adopted a baby girl called Naleigh from South Korea and she later took a three-month leave to spend time with the baby but since then she never returned and caused a big fuss to finally leave.
Well she tells Entertainment Weekly, “I am done, we just finalized our agreement. Everyone had been working really hard to find an amicable and gracious way of letting go and moving on. It’s sad but it’s what I wanted. I started a family and it changed everything for me, it changed my desire to work full-time.â€
If you still watch the show, please tell me why because it got awful, don’t expect her to return to screen for a goodbye. She is never returning to the set and her character was supposed to.
I’ve always disliked Katherine Heigl because she comes across as one of the most ungrateful people in the entertainment industry, she is constantly biting the hand that feeds her so I’m not surprised she isn’t going to return for the last few episodes.
source: Katherine Heigl confirms ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ departure [Entertainment Weekly]
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After 20 years at the helm of the firm founded by her father, Christie Hefner will step down as chairman and chief executive officer of Playboy Enterprises Inc. next month, the adult entertainment company said Monday.
 Christie Hefner Quits Post as Playboy CEO Before the start of trading, Playboy said that Hefner will stay on as CEO until Jan. 31 and remain on the board until a replacement is found. In the meantime, the company said it has appointed Jerome Kern, a long-time director, to be interim non-executive chairman.
In the announcement, Hefner said that “just as this country is embracing change in the form of new leadership, I have decided that now is the time to make changes in my own life as well” but gave no other specific reasons for her departure.
She leaves as the company remains mired in the loss column, stung by charges and dwindling revenue across almost all of its divisions.
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Media companies have been hit hard in the current recession, and those like Playboy have not been exempted. Skittish advertisers often cut their ad budgets first, while consumers can find a plethora of free adult fare online and have become increasingly reluctant to pay for it.
The stock has also suffered, scraping to an all-time low of $1.03 just weeks ago after trading just shy of $10 at this time last year. On Monday, however, it jumped more than 11% to $1.95 in morning action.
Still, Kern said that during Hefner’s time at the company, she oversaw its “transition from a domestic magazine publisher to a global lifestyle and multi-media company,” directing its entry into TV, online and mobile offerings.
“Under her leadership, the licensing group grew from insignificance to become the company’s most profitable business,” Kern said.
For his part, Christie Hefner’s father Hugh said he asked his daughter to “step up as president when the company faced serious financial difficulties more than two decades ago,” and that as the result of her efforts, “the company today has more consumers and fans than at any time in our history.”
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