It’s been nearly two years since Caitlyn Jenner came out as transgender in an interview with Diane Sawyer, and their much-anticipated follow-up is scheduled to air Friday night. Since the last time they spoke, Jenner has revealed herself to be a troublingly un-woke and increasingly maligned cultural figure. She said…
As Rita Hayworth famously said, “Every man I knew went to bed with Gilda... and woke up with me.” Apparently, fugitive Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, lured Kate del Castillo to the jungle because he had an infatuation with her character Teresa Mendoza of La Reina del Sur. When will men learn to distinguish the real woman…
A great deal of the controversy regarding Bruce Jenner’s interview with Diane Sawyer has centered on whether or not ABC reached out to Kris Jenner for comment on Bruce’s transition. Jenner says she was never contacted. ABC says that’s an outright lie.
In a feverishly anticipated two-hour interview with Diane Sawyer on ABC, Bruce Jenner confirmed tonight that he is a transgender woman. But Jenner made it clear that his transition is not yet completed and that when the interview was filmed, he still preferred the “he” pronoun. He told Sawyer it was the last interview…
“My whole life has been getting me ready for this,” says Jenner, a sentence that may or may not have been taken out of context to ensure that people will tune in to watch his upcoming interview with Diane Sawyer (set to air Friday night on ABC).
"Katie Couric on Diane Sawyer: 'I Wonder Who She Blew This Time'" reads one headline. "HATE-Y COURIC" proclaims another. Not to be outdone: "EXCLUSIVE: Betrayal, jealousy, and bitterness: New book reveals the vicious rivalry between Diane Sawyer and Barbara Walters - and how Diane ran newsroom like an imperial court…
Veteran newswoman Diane Sawyer delivered her final broadcast from the anchor desk at ABC news on Wednesday night.
Veteran Fox Sports sideline reporter Pam Oliver is officially being replaced by Erin Andrews, her younger, blonde colleague. With nearly two decades under her belt and all of the old men talking sports on television, 53-year-old Oliver’s forced career shift sounds like ageism.
ABC has announced that World News's Diane Sawyer will be stepping down from her role as anchor in order to pursue other roles with the network. Replacing her will be Good Morning America cohost George Stephanopoulos for breaking stories and David Muir for day-to-day anchoring duties, thus returning network nightly…
Sheila Weller's book The News Sorority: Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric, Christiane Amanpour—and the (Ongoing, Imperfect, Complicated) Triumph of Women in TV isn't even out yet and it's being used by media outlets to tear down the very women the book covers. This is especially rough to watch given that the point of the…
Hillary Clinton's Hard Choices comes out today and its publication brings more fascinating revelations about what the Obama campaign wanted her to do to weaken the McCain/Palin ticket in 2008, how her participation in Texts From Hillary came about and stuff about Monica Lewinsky.
Last night, 20/20 aired the special Murder. Mystery. Amanda Knox Speaks, featuring an exclusive Diane Sawyer interview with Amanda Knox, the first of its kind since Knox was acquitted from the charges of murdering 21-year-old fellow foreign exchange student Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy. Knox, who just released…
Well! Some people thought that Diane Sawyer seemed a wee bit drunk on Election Night. And in this vintage (never-aired?) footage from Primetime Live, she sips a glass of red wine and then fishes some prescription pills from her purse. Ah, the good old days! The best part? When Sawyer sassily snipes, "I said, too bad…
Here are some spooky through-the-bushes pictures of Nat Port's wedding to Benjamin Human Centipede: Full Sequence, which was vegan and Jewish and French and on the Big Sur coast and sounds nice, although I'm not sure about that dress. They had macarons instead of cake, and guests (including Diane Sawyer, Mike Nichols,…
NBC Nightly News anchor and father of Girls' Zosia Mamet stopped by the Late Show last night, wherein Dave Letterman asked the newsman to compare himself to journalists on competing networks. Williams handled the situation adeptly, managing to somehow be both honest and respectful, that is until Letterman asked him…
Last night TV viewers had an unusual choice. By flipping between two networks' primetime news magazine shows, they got to see that absolute worst and best of America. While NBC's Rock Center featured former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky suggesting that kids might have made up their abuse claims, ABC's 20/20 had…
Here's a preview of Jaycee Dugard's emotional and lengthy interview with Diane Sawyer that will air this Sunday night. In it, she talks about giving birth in a backyard at the age of 14, saying that when the baby came, she "felt like I wasn't alone anymore, I had somebody that was mine." Jaycee's mother will also…
In this raw video of ABC News in Joplin — only a day after the first deadly tornado — a clearly rattled Diane Sawyer struggles with the unfinished story she's about to report. A confused producer gives her unclear directions. Communication with the New York City newsroom is spotty. And all the while, dangerous…
Sandra Lee, whose Sandra Dee-Sara Lee mashup of a name I've always felt to be perfect for her perky brand of from-package-to-arterial-plaque-age "cooking," says that she will never leave her boyfriend and New York governor-elect Andrew Cuomo's side.
Last night, outgoing Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi granted her first post-election interview to Diane Sawyer. "I'm a professional," she said, though Sawyer kept trying to get her to talk about her bruised emotions.