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Walters, O’Reilly, Couric and More Hit THR’s Media Power Party

Merrill Knox — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 12:57:50 +0000

As we told you yesterday, The Hollywood Reporter is out with its annual “35 Most Powerful People in Media” list. The honorees were feted at a “power-soaked New York party” at the Four Seasons restaurant Wednesday night.

From CBS News, chairman Jeff Fager was there, along with “CBS This Morning” co-hosts Gayle King and Norah O’Donnell, “60 Minutes” correspondent Morley Safer, “Evening News” anchor Scott Pelley and “Sunday Morning” correspondent Mo Rocca. CNN’s Piers Morgan was there, as was Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly. The “Today” show’s Willie Geist and “Live!” co-hosts Michael Strahan and Kelly Ripa attended, along with talk show hosts Wendy Williams and Katie Couric. And from ABC News, president Ben Sherwood, “The View” anchor Barbara Walters, senior VP for content and development James Goldston and “Good Morning America” anchors Lara Spencer and George Stephanopoulos, who was with his wife, Ali Wentworth.

More pictures of the event in THR’s gallery.

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The Afternoon Ticker: ‘CTM’ In DC, Katie, Piers

Alex Weprin — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:20:32 +0000

“CBS This Morning” will broadcast live from Capitol Hill, inside the Ways and Means Committee hearing room tomorrow. The room will be the one where fiscal cliff legislation is born or dies. Charlie Rose, Gayle King and Norah O’Donnell will interview House minority leader Nancy Pelosi live.

Katie Couric will reveal the biggest stories people shared on Facebook on her program tomorrow. She will also hosts guests to talk about the year that was, including NBC’s Luke Russert, CBS’ Mo Rocca and actress Ali Wentworth, whose husband is George Stephanopoulos.

The New York Post‘s Claire Atkinson reports that among the changes CNN is considering to its lineup are shifting Piers Morgan from 9 PM to 10 PM “or even later.” Not surprisingly, it seems unlikely that CNN will continue to repeat “AC360,” at 10 PM, instead giving Anderson Cooper one slot or the other.

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Roger Ailes, George Stephanopoulos, Tom Brokaw and Arianna Huffington Turn Out for CURE

Chris Ariens — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 12:27:36 +0000

Obama campaign senior adviser David Axelrod spent his final night with his mustache at New York’s Four Seasons Restaurant raising awareness — and money — for epilepsy research. Axelrod and his wife Susan hosted many Manhattan luminaries at the CURE New York reception at which Mayor Mike Bloomberg was presented an award for his support. In his brief remarks, Bloomberg caught sight of NBC’s Tom Brokaw in the crowd: “There’s Tom Brokaw. He’s my neighbor …. and my golf partner. Maybe he’ll even give me a few strokes next round.”

TVNewser spotted Fox News chairman Roger Ailes giving a warm hello to Susan Axelrod and Arianna Huffington as David Axelrod gave his remarks. The Axelrods established CURE: Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy as the family struggled to come to terms with their daughter Lauren’s epilepsy. Now 31, Lauren experienced her first seizure at seven months old.

We chatted with “CBS This Morning” anchor Charlie Rose, who, with his co-hosts Gayle King and Norah O’Donnell, is treating the “This Morning” staff to a holiday party next week. “It takes two jobs to be able to do it, but we’ll do it,” joked Rose, who also hosts “Charlie Rose” on PBS and Bloomberg TV.

Also at the event, organized for the most part by Tammy Haddad: “Good Morning America” and “This Week” anchor George Stephanopoulos and his wife Ali Wentworth, ABC political analyst

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Lara Spencer Loves A Good Yard Sale, and Parties for Books about Yard Sales

Chris Ariens — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:22:21 +0000

Lara Spencer, once host of PBS’s “Antiques Roadshow,” loves a good roadside sale. And now she’s written a book about it.

So last night, designer Jonathan Adler hosted the GMA anchor and a crowd of tvnewsers and friends at his Madison Avenue store celebrating the publication of her new book “I Brake For Yard Sales.”

Spotted in the crowd: George Stephanopoulos and Ali Wentworth, Josh Elliott, ABC News President Ben Sherwood, (right, with Spencer) ABC SVP’s James Goldston and Jeffrey Schneider, ABC anchor Deborah Roberts, WABC anchor Diana Williams, Fox5 New York anchor Greg Kelly, ABC’s Dan Abrams and NBC’s Donnie Deutsch, among others.

Spencer outlines some of her tips in a Yard Sales 101 column on ABCNews.com.

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Ali Wentworth on George Stephanopoulos: ‘I Don’t Understand Why He Won’t Put Me on the Roundtable’

Merrill Knox — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:19:29 +0000

Comedian Ali Wentworth was on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” yesterday to talk about her book and her recently-launched Yahoo! show, which is broadcast daily from her kitchen. Wentworth told Howard Kurtz how her husband, ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, “always comes in, and so I can turn to him.”

“I let him have a small role in my show,” she joked. “I don’t understand why he won’t put me on the roundtable, but I do invite him on my show.” Watch:

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George Stephanopoulos’ Surprise 50th Birthday Party

Alex Weprin — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 10:27:33 +0000

On “Good morning America” today, George Stephanopoulos was the star of a birthday party, with his wife Ali Wentworth, daughters, parents and even dogs appearing in-studio to surprise him.

Also on hand: Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Morticia Addams from “The Addams Family, Elvis Presley and, yes, a giant AARP card.

“That’s not something to celebrate about,” Stephanopoulos quipped.

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Ali Wentworth thinks Shirley Sherrod should ask Pres. Obama for Secy. of Ag. Job

Chris Ariens — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:40:27 +0000

Fired, maybe rehired, Deptartment of Agriculture employee Shirley Sherrod continues to make the rounds, showing up this morning on “The View.”

HLN/”The View”‘s Joy Behar thinks Andrew Breitbart owes her an apology. “I have heard not one word from him,” said Behar. Elisabeth Hasselbeck thinks so too: “Obviously there should be some face-to-face apology to you.” Sherrod: “I think he should.”

Meanwhile, guest co-host Ali Wentworth (aka Mrs. George Stephanopoulos) thinks Sherrod should go straight to the top.

Wentworth: Can I give you some advice? When you meet with Obama next week at the White House, ask for the position of Agriculture Secretary. I think you’d be great at it.

Behar chimed in, “That’s how George Stephanopoulos got the job on “GMA.”

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ABC WHCA Dinner Guest List

kevin — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:15:27 +0000

Recent hire Christiane Amanpour will be sitting with ABC News this Saturday at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. She joins her future ABC colleagues Diane Sawyer, Robin Roberts, Terry Moran, Cynthia McFadden, and Martin Bashir as well as George Stephanopoulos and his wife Ali Wentworth.

Here’s the list of the network’s VIP guests:

Julie Bowen (Modern Family)
Ty Burrell (Modern Family)
JJ Abrams and his wife
Elisabeth Shue and Davis Guggenheim
Kathryn Bigelow, Director, “The Hurt Locker”
Mark Boal, producer and screenwriter, “The Hurt Locker”
Leon Panetta, CIA Director
Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) and his wife
Julianna Smoot, WH Social Secretary
Peter Orszag, Director, OMB (and fiancé to ABC’s Bianna Golodryga)
Tom Donilon, Deputy Director National Security Counsel
Catherine Russell, Jill Biden’s Chief of Staff
Michelle Rhee, Washington DC Schools Chancellor
Kevin Johnson, Sacramento Mayor and former Phoenix Suns point guard

ABC News President David Westin will be hosting a reception prior to the dinner in honor of Jake Tapper who will receive the 2010 Merriman Smith Award later that night (Westin’s note to staff after the jump). Check out TVNewser and FishbowlDC over the weekend for updates on the festivities from Washington.

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Megyn Kelly on ‘The View’ and Howard Stern

Chris Ariens — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:36:32 +0000

Before anchoring her own 2-hour show, Fox News Channel’s Megyn Kelly made a couple of other media stops this morning — incongruous as they were.

Kelly was on Howard Stern‘s Sirius XM radio show where she played the game “Marry, F–k, Kill,” where a guest is given three people she’d either marry, have sex with or kill. Using Fox News hosts as her choices, Kelly said she’d have sex with Bill O’Reilly, marry Sean Hannity and kill Glenn Beck.

Kelly then went on “The View.” (One of the co-hosts today was Ali Wentworth aka Mrs. George Stephanopoulos.) The ladies talked about a couple criminal cases in the news: the case of the Tennessee mother who returned her adopted Russian son and the bullying-to-death suicide of Phoebe Prince.

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Ali Wentworth Teases Her Husband George on ‘GMA’

kevin — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:29:24 +0000

George Stephanopoulos has only been anchoring ABC’s “Good Morning America” for seven days, but his wife has already appeared for an interview.

Robin Roberts talked with actress Ali Wentworth, who was home in Washington, about her latest film, “It’s Complicated.”

Wentworth was booked prior to Stephanopoulos joining “GMA,” but the segment quickly became about the celebrity couple and how they met. “We were set up on a blind date,” she said. “I, of course, knew who he was, and wasn’t interested.”

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Around the Fishbowls

SteveK — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:05:47 +0000

• FishbowlDC writes about George Stephanopoulos‘ wife, Ali Wentworth saying on Oprah “we both started crying” while watching The Obamas first dance.

• FishbowlLA was down in D.C. for the Inauguration, and Tina Dupuy describes some of of the sightings at the HuffPo Ball, including NBC’s David Gregory and CNN’s John King.

• FishbowlNY gives the “Lunch” rundown at media-hotspot Michael’s yesterday. Who shared Table 6? ABC’s Barbara Walters and CNN’s Christiane Amanpour.

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Common Bond: The Stephanopoulos-Obama Connection

Chris Ariens — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:00:47 +0000

Gail Shister
TVNewser Columnist

Like somebody else in Washington, “This Week’s” George Stephanopoulos doesn’t want his two young daughters on TV.

“They’re not allowed to do interviews,” he jokes, referring to six-year-old Elliott and three-year-old Harper. (Type A Elliott “is an intense little girl. She’s fun to watch.” Harper, a B, “is quite laid back.” Guess which one takes after dad?)

When the Obama family sat down with “Access Hollywood’s” Maria Menounos in July for its first – and only – interview, Stephanaopoulos was struck most by the reaction of the President-elect.

“I think he realized, as it was happening, that maybe he ought to pull back a little bit,” he says. “He and his wife are really focused on protecting their daughters.”

Ditto for Stephanopoulos and his wife, Ali Wentworth.

When one’s kids are on camera, “There’s an unreality to it that might not be healthy,” he says. “I’m not sure what consequences would be, but I don’t particularly want to test it.”

Speaking of tests, ABC’s “This Week” is a solid No. 2 in the Sunday-morning wars, ahead of Bob Schieffer‘s “Face the Nation” on CBS and behind NBC powerhouse “Meet the Press,” with interim anchor Tom Brokaw.

Ironically, “This Week” can’t seem to crack Washington, where it’s behind “Fox News Sunday.” (Nationally, however, “This Week” doubles Fox News’ numbers.) A few weeks ago, “This Week” was No. 1 in every Top 10 market – except You Know Where.

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