Local TV gossip?
DebSer5
personalities. It *seems* a lot of people on here are from some bigger cities
so other people may now the personality you're talking about. I live in
Cleveland and are local weatherman who is in his 70's got beat up by his wife
several months and was out of work for awhile. I also heard about some kind of
gay harrassment suit in I *believe* one of the local nyc stations.
Meadowlands NJ
>gay harrassment suit in I *believe* one of the local nyc stations.
>
It's news anchor Steve Bartlestein at WABC channel 7 in NYC.
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/bios/bio_steve_bartelstein.html
ANCHOR CALLED 'NIGHTCRAWLER'
THE sexual harassment suit brought last week against WABC anchorman Steve
Bartelstein by a male co-worker didn't shock others at Ch. 7 who have marveled
at the broadcaster's behavior.
"He's a notorious nightcrawler," says one gay clubgoer, who used to recognize
Bartelstein in his baseball hat disguise. "He's been out there for a long
time."
Our source described the "not-quite-out" news hound's taste for edgy after-dark
venues as "very underground. He's much more into 11th Avenue than Eighth
Avenue, if you know what I mean. He's definitely looking for love in all the
wrong places."
Bartelstein is said to have had a long-term alliance with a hunky reporter at a
local station, a member of what he termed a "gay anchor clique."
Another former fling detailed how he was "lured" into Bartelstein's life and
urged: "Ask your nightlife denizens about Bartelstein and you'll get an earful
about his way with guys half his age."
Bartelstein's lawyer, Ronald P. Fischetti, said, "These types of stories don't
even deserve comment from my client."
As for his daytime hijinks, Bartelstein, a known joker, is infamous around the
newsroom for blinding co-workers with a laser pointer. (The lawsuit against him
states he shined the pointer in complainant Roderick McCollum's apartment.)
McCollum, a writer/producer for Ch. 7, claims in his lawsuit he was sexually
harassed and stalked by Bartelstein, who, he claims, also offered him drugs in
his office.
Bartelstein, who had a calendar of 'N Sync's Joey Fatone in his office, was
also known to run downstairs to the studio where "Live With Regis and Kelly" is
taped to have his photo snapped with celeb guests like Barry Manilow, annoying
the show's handlers and guests alike.
The guests he struck a pose with were mostly male. "He's not running down there
for Christina Aguilera, that's for sure," said a publicist familiar with the
green room.
Bartelstein, who declared McCollum's allegations as "outrageous" and
"shocking," is countersuing for defamation of character.
"These things
will destroy the human race:
politics without principle,
progress without compassion,
wealth without work,
learning without silence,
religion without fearlessness
and worship without awareness."
Anthony de Mello, SJ
DebSer5
>http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/bios/bio_steve_bartelstein.html
Thanks for posting the article. He seems like a creepy guy.
Big J
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> A local sportscaster in Philly was rumored to be gay and a friend of
> mine who happened to be in another city during an away game for one of
> our teams bumped into him at a gay bar. Needless to say, my friend
> didn't tell Mr. Sports that he came from the same town.
When living in Texas, I saw a local weatherman in a gay bar. It was a piano
bar and he was sitting on one of the stools around the piano, just a-
singin' his heart out.
Not so much a surprise to think that he could be gay. What did surprise me
(he always seemed like a tall, thin man on TV) was that he was normal height
and had an absolutely huge ass. Wide hips, big butt like they belonged on
someone 100 lbs. heavier. Like Wally Cox's top on Rosie O's bottom. (OK, no
snerking!)
Wasn't pretty. I guess it doesn't matter if you're only seen from the waist
up.
I'm not down on him for his appearance - it was just that the TV made such a
different impression of him.
Big J
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maryanne kehoe
a guy that works at the Weather Channel----and his boyfriend. This was
10 years ago, when it was still LEGAL to get scanners modified. You
still can own them but if you want modifyable scanners, you have to go
to any radio-supply store in Canada.
njs
"Big J" <bi...@myrealbox.com> wrote in message
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> When living in Texas, I saw a local weatherman in a gay bar. It was a
piano
> bar and he was sitting on one of the stools around the piano, just a-
> singin' his heart out.
>
> Not so much a surprise to think that he could be gay. What did surprise me
> (he always seemed like a tall, thin man on TV) was that he was normal
height
> and had an absolutely huge ass. Wide hips, big butt like they belonged on
> someone 100 lbs. heavier. Like Wally Cox's top on Rosie O's bottom. (OK,
no
> snerking!)
>
> Wasn't pretty. I guess it doesn't matter if you're only seen from the
waist
> up.
ack! I think I know who this is! I'm in Texas, and we had a guy like that.
Perfectly regular looking guy. Then I saw him at the grocery store, and it
was like an SNL episode of the Widettes. Such a shock! Bob Koob was his name
(he's dead now)
Big J
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> So you didn't tell us... what was he like in bed? ;)
I'm too much of a gentleman to say what a nasty bitch you are...
Big J
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Kaiju
>
> I was wondering if anyone had any juicy gossip from there local t.v
> personalities.
I don't think any scandal can match the one that LA's NBC affiliate
now-fired weatherman, Christopher Nance generated. The tip of the
scandal:
"Popular Los Angeles weatherman Christopher Nance was fired shortly
before the new year after developing "a reputation for profane and
menacing off-air behavior, marked by sexual innuendo and violent
outbursts," reports Los Angeles magazine.
KNBC President and General Manager Paula Madison fired the station's
only African American weekday anchor over what Nance claimed in the Los
Angeles Times were unfounded allegations of sexual harassment involving
an intern.
In 1990, the Los Angeles City Council declared June 16 Christopher Nance
Day, in honor of his community service to young people. Nance's "Let's
Talk Weather" school program has been presented to more than 500,000
students, according to his bio.
But in a cover story, Los Angeles magazine writes of Nance:
"In an incident now legendary at the station, he once called a technical
director a 'cunt' in front of the morning crew, reducing her to tears.
He had the same effect on a well-known anchor, telling her 'fuck you' as
she sat at the news desk. On yet another occasion, he shouted down the
station's vice president預lso female要owing to 'shove my foot so far up
your ass you're going to taste shoe polish.' The most frightening
allegation involves a woman who became romantically involved with Nance
near the beginning of his NBC4 tenure, sometimes meeting him at the
station for their trysts. She later accused Nance of attacking her,
first with punches and kicks, then by squeezing his hands around her
neck. By portraying the woman as a deranged fan, Nance not only avoided
charges but won a temporary restraining order against her. At the time
she was so humiliated that she let the matter drop. But today, 12 years
later, she tells the same story. 'Christopher Nance tried to kill me,'
she says." http://www.maynardije.org/columns/dickprince/030113_prince/
Adding to the fun:
"WEATHERMAN'S WIFE SENTENCED TO BIG HOUSE
Nicholette Norma Nance, the wife of disgraced ex-KNBC weatherman
Christopher Nance, this week was sentenced to 30 months in federal
prison for swiping $3 million in telephone equipment from her employer,
Nestle USA in Glendale. Naughty Nicholette was recently featured in LA
Magazine's unflattering profile of her husband.
KABC has a story on her sentencing as did the News-Press, though it
failed to mention her husband."
http://www.laexaminer.com/mt/archives/week_2003_02_02.html
Google a bit more and even better tidbits are available. The LA Times
did an extensive piece on the scandal, along with other news outlets.
This guy, who was believed to be a closeted gay for years, was given
chance after chance, but ultimately the KNBC news management was
terrified of reprimanding him because they feared repercussions because
he was the only Black member of their on-air staff. His behavior became
so bad, they finally found some balls. Frankly, I resent the KNBC
management for being freekin' cowards. If the stories are true, and
apparently they had substantiated proof all along, he should have been
bounced long before they actually did it.
I still can't believe the dude was this lady-killer horn dog. I
could've sworn he was gay...
Kaiju
--
No more fiendish punishment could be devised,
were such a thing physically possible,
than that one should be turned loose in society
and remain absolutely unnoticed.
-- William James
Buttercup
>>
I was wondering if anyone had any juicy gossip from there local t.v
personalities. <<<<<
Bill Bonds, our local newscaster was caught several times DUI. His daughter was
killed by a drunk driver in the 80s. Even this tragedy couldn't stop his
drinking and driving. He was very popular when WXYZ dropped him from the
newscast 5 years ago. He now does commercials for Gardner White Furniture and
nothing else.
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How do you like them apples?
Botch
>>DebSer5 wrote:
>>>
> I was wondering if anyone had any juicy gossip from there local t.v
>personalities. <<<<<
>
Roughly 14 years ago while in San Diego on business for a couple
weeks I thought one of the female reporters looked very familiar. I
found out why when I saw her and some of the other stations news
people doing a personal appearance at a mall. She was or had been a
guy I had been friends with several years before. Whatever doubts I
had were wiped away when she saw me and even under the makeup I could
see all the color drain from her face. I said hello, and much to her
obvious relief, didn't let on anything was wrong and just talked like
one old friend to another.
I have no idea what's happened to her since.
Botch
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CHET: I just see trees.
maryanne kehoe
Re: Local TV gossip?
Group: alt.gossip.celebrities Date: Sun, Nov 9, 2003, 10:23am (EST+5)
From: butterc...@aol.comprende (Buttercup)
2nz
Many years ago, there was a host of a local kiddie TV show, on which he wore a
ship captain's outfit and had a corn cob pipe. During the X-mas season, he
supplemented his income with an X-mas tree lot, from which he also sold lids of
marijuana. He was murdered in the parking lot of a TV station (not the station
he worked for). The local buzz was that he was shot by a jealous husband of
some gal he was fooling around with, but truth be known, he was gay. In those
days, such things weren't mentioned by the local press.
If music be the food of love, play on.
www.tunzter.gemm.com.
Lady Taker
> I still can't believe the dude was this lady-killer horn dog. I
> could've sworn he was gay...
>
>
> Kaiju
Maybe he was just British.
Giselle (startin' shit and on Sunday morn', too. I'm so ashamed)
ShimShalaBim
I live in San Diego...do tell! Details! Names!~Mymind is reeling with
guesses...
The only recent scandal I can think of here is that Junior Seau(the
former Charger player, and now Miami Dolphin), started boffing one of
the local news gals Misha di Bono. It ended up that Mrs. Seau found
out, and Junior kicked the wife to the curb, and is now with Misha-who
moved to Miami with Junior.
DebSer5
weather in nyc and cleveland was involved in a hit and run not to long ago,
here in cleveland.
Vixoye04
(DebSer5) writes:
Wow, since you're in cleveland, do you know anything about ramona robinson
(sp?) from channel 3? Is she married? I was just curious. Thanks
Big J
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> You must be confusing me with LCM again. ;)
Nah. LCM is the one who *knows* he's a queen.
Big J
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DebSer5
>(sp?) from channel 3? Is she married? I was just curious. Thanks
>
Yes, I know who Ramona Robinson is. I'm almost postive she is single. I have
heard from a few people she's very standoffish, but that's all I really know
about her. She is very pretty :)
explorer
brother that was in some HBO movie and a weathercaster whe gets annoyed when
you ask him for the next day's forecast at the bar.
"Kaiju" <ka...@ecn.com> wrote in message news:3FAE011B...@ecn.com...
> DebSer5 wrote:
> >
> > I was wondering if anyone had any juicy gossip from there local t.v
> > personalities.
>
> I don't think any scandal can match the one that LA's NBC affiliate
> now-fired weatherman, Christopher Nance generated. The tip of the
> scandal:
>
> "Popular Los Angeles weatherman Christopher Nance was fired shortly
> before the new year after developing "a reputation for profane and
> menacing off-air behavior, marked by sexual innuendo and violent
> outbursts," reports Los Angeles magazine.
>
> KNBC President and General Manager Paula Madison fired the station's
> only African American weekday anchor over what Nance claimed in the Los
> Angeles Times were unfounded allegations of sexual harassment involving
> an intern.
>
> In 1990, the Los Angeles City Council declared June 16 Christopher Nance
> Day, in honor of his community service to young people. Nance's "Let's
> Talk Weather" school program has been presented to more than 500,000
> students, according to his bio.
>
> But in a cover story, Los Angeles magazine writes of Nance:
>
> "In an incident now legendary at the station, he once called a technical
> director a 'cunt' in front of the morning crew, reducing her to tears.
> He had the same effect on a well-known anchor, telling her 'fuck you' as
> she sat at the news desk. On yet another occasion, he shouted down the
> station's vice president-also female-vowing to 'shove my foot so far up
maryanne kehoe
into trouble?
2nz
>On 09 Nov 2003 12:26:54 GMT, tun...@aol.compost (2nz) wrote:
>
>>Many years ago, there was a host of a local kiddie TV show, on which he wore
>a
>>ship captain's outfit and had a corn cob pipe. During the X-mas season, he
>>supplemented his income with an X-mas tree lot, from which he also sold lids
>of
>>marijuana. He was murdered in the parking lot of a TV station (not the
>station
>>he worked for). The local buzz was that he was shot by a jealous husband of
>>some gal he was fooling around with, but truth be known, he was gay. In
>those
>>days, such things weren't mentioned by the local press.
>>
>I live in San Diego...do tell! Details! Names!~Mymind is reeling with
guesses...
Well, since he's been gone for over 20 years, i suppose i can name names.
It was in Albuquerque, New Mexico and his name was Stretch Scherrer (don't
recall his real first name, but he was called Stretch). My high school buddies
used to buy pot from him.
......I did a Google search and came up with the following quote from Bevis &
Butthead/King Of The Hill creator, Mike Judge, who also grew up in Albuquerque:
"There was a show in Albuquerque called Captain Billy," Judge recalls. "He was
a local guy and he'd show cartoons and you'd go there for your birthday and he
got shot because he was fooling around with someone else's wife. I remember my
mom trying to explain it to me. I was asking her, 'Why did he get shot?' And
she goes, 'Maybe he was just hugging her to say, "good job," and someone walked
in and saw it and shot him.' "
Charlotte Taylor
that she's staying in Cleveland.
"DebSer5" <deb...@aol.com> wrote in message
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Hiyachick
>
>>I was wondering if anyone had any juicy gossip from there local t.v
personalities. It *seems* a lot of people on here are from some bigger cities
so other people may now the personality you're talking about. I live in
Cleveland and are local weatherman who is in his 70's got beat up by his
>wife several months and was out of work for awhile. I also heard about some
kind
>>of gay harrassment suit in I *believe* one of the local nyc stations.
Good scoop. So... which local weatherman in Cleveland got roughed up by the
wife?
Leigh Melton
Don't forget Russ Minshew. (WXIA weather droid for a couple of
years.)
A guy I knew told me he went home with Russ once and in an off-hand
way asked what the weather was supposed to be like the next day and
Russ snapped "How the HELL should *I* know?"
Russ seemed to be pretty high-strung. Cruised around Piedmont Park
(Atlanta) in a red Corvette, asking people if they knew who he was and
getting miffed if they didn't.
Leigh
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There's no place like 127.0.0.1
Kaiju
Stop. Don't make me laugh. It's unseemly on a Sunday.
DebSer5
>wife?
Dick Goddard
maryanne kehoe
was acquitted but his TV career here in Atlanta was finished. I think he
was working somewhere in Florida and died about 4 (?) years ago???
Re: Local TV gossip?
Group: alt.gossip.celebrities Date: Sun, Nov 9, 2003, 9:06pm From:
le...@nbi.com (Leigh Melton)
Kaiju
>
> Why is it that it seems the weathercasters are the ones to always get
> into trouble?
I noticed that, too. Strange.
Boffman
>personalities. It *seems* a lot of people on here are from some bigger cities
>so other people may now the personality you're talking about. I live in
>Cleveland and are local weatherman who is in his 70's got beat up by his wife
>several months and was out of work for awhile. I also heard about some kind
>of
>gay harrassment suit in I *believe* one of the local nyc stations.
I live in Cleveland too? Who was this? I know that Adam Shapiro is gay.
Boffman
DICK GODDARD! NO SHIT!? How do you know? Is she a lot younger? For all of you
from other cities, Dick Goddard is like Mr. Cleveland. He is totally beloved is
this town. He could probably get elected mayor if he ran.