Pin Itemailprint So who won the 2011 edition of NBC’s The Biggest Loser? John Rhode lost a whopping 220 pounds in the reality TV competition and snagged $250,000 on last night’s finale. Despite the fact that he handily defeated 14 other contestants, John said that was the easy part. The hardest part is yet to [...]
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This morning on NBC’s TODAY show, Time magazine revealed its 2011 Person of the Year – The Protester. “There was a lot of consensus among our people,” Time magazine’s managing editor Rick Stengel told Matt Lauer and Ann Curry of this year’s cover. ”It felt right.” As it has done for the past 84 years, [...]
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Two months after revealing she’s been battling breast cancer, Giuliana Rancic of E! News returned to the TODAY show this morning to announce that she’s taking her treatment to the next level. Having initially opted for a double lumpectomy and radiation, that conservative treatment hasn’t worked out as well as she and husband Bill Rancic [...]
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Students face enough bullying from their own classmates these days. Now, do we need to start worrying that their teachers are bullying them too? Apparently, we do. The father of a 14-year-old special needs student in Ohio was shocked to find out that his daughter’s teachers were bullying her. (UPDATE: Here’s another teacher in New [...]
A 67-year-old man who was found alive some six days after his car plunged 200 feet off a cliff built a makeshift camp, ate leaves, and drank water from a creek in order to survive. After not hearing from their dad for several days, David Lavau‘s children reported him missing to local authorities. As rescuers [...]
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Princess Leia herself, Carrie Fisher, was on the TODAY show this morning talking about her monumental weight loss journey. It seems Fisher is close to being able to wear the legendary metal bikini that sent sci-fi fans into a frenzy some 25 years ago, having lost 50 pounds in nine months on the Jenny Craig [...]
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Today show co-host Ann Curry has got herself a squatter. A homeless man was booted out of Curry’s $2.9 million Upper West Side townhouse on Saturday, according to police. Curry and her husband, Brian Ross, had been renovating the four-story townhome for the past eight years, and during that time the Post reports it has [...]
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Finally. The long wait is over for Charla Nash, the woman who was brutally attacked by a chimp back in 2009. Nash, who is usually seen with a veil covering her face, revealed the horrific damage the chimp had done to her on Oprah in 2009. The chimp, which belonged to a friend, tore off [...]
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After five years as co-anchor, Meredith Vieira‘s stint on NBC’s Today show alongside Matt Lauer came to an end this morning. Vieira, 57, announced last month that she would be leaving the nation’s number one morning show to spend more time with her husband, Richard, and three children, Ben, Gabe, and Lily. At the top [...]
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It was probably the worst kept secret in morning news circles and today it was confirmed. Ending weeks of speculation, Today show co-host Meredith Vieira announced this morning that she would be leaving the show in June to spend more time with family. “After months of personal reflection and private conversations between my family and [...]
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Nine-year-old Anaiah Rucker is one tough, little hero. She was helping her little sister, 5-year-old Cameron Harden (“Camry”), cross the street to get to a school bus stop in Georgia last month when Camry stepped in front of a pick-up truck. On the Today show this morning, Anaiah told Ann Curry that she didn’t even [...]
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There were a few scary moments on the set of the Today show on NBC this morning when a crazed man jumped the barricade while Meredith Vieira, Al Roker, and Willie Geist (who was filling in for Matt Lauer) reported from outside. Although the man wasn’t seen on camera, he could clearly be heard leaping [...]
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