Diane Sawyer begins her tenure as the first full-time female host of ABC’s flagship nightly news program on Monday. Sawyer will launch a new era this evening as anchor of the network’s World News half-hour broadast. The former Good Morning America anchor is taking over hosting duties for journalist Charles Gibson, who retired from ABC last Friday after nearly 40 years as an anchor.

It’s official. After 10 years, Diane Sawyer is leaving ABC News’ Good Morning America. Sawyer announced this morning that she’ll step down as co-anchor of Good Morning America this week. “I’ve calculated — 2,881 shows,” Sawyer said. “Roughly.”

Sawyer, 63, will take over for retiring World News anchor Charles Gibson, who will exit the show on Dec. 18. Diane starts Dec. 21. “I hope you celebrate with us this week, laugh with us this week,” Sawyer said.

There’s still confirmation on who will be taking a seat in the anchor’s chair previously occupied by Sawyer; although early buzz has political analyst George Stephanopolis as shoe-in for the gig.
To watch Diane Sawyer’s Farewell Address, Visit ABC.com…..

Check out another segment of Rihanna’s interview on Good Morning America this morning. This time, the singer describes the details of Chris Brown’s attack on her last February.

“There was no person when I looked at him,” the 21-year-old Rihanna recalled during the second installment of an interview witg Diane Sawyer. ‘‘He had no soul in his eyes. Just blank.” Read the rest of this entry »

In her first television interview since being assaulted by former flame Chris Brown, pop princess Rihanna says it was “”wrong” of her to take the crooner back.

“That’s embarrassing that that’s the type of person that I fell in love with,” the singer told Diane Sawyer on ABC’s Good Morning America Thursday. “So far in love. So unconditional that I went back. It’s humiliating to say this happened. To accept that? It’s a traumatizing experience.”
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Rihanna is ready to speak out for the first time since being assaulted by ex-boyfriend Chris Brown last February.

Rihanna will sit down with Diane Sawyer in an interview that is scheduled to air on Good Morning America on Thursday, Nov. 5 and Friday, Nov. 6 @ 7AM ET — an extended interview will broadcast on Nov. 6 @ 10PM ET on the ABC newsmagazine 20/20.
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