Is The Hardest-Working Man In Showbusiness crushing on Katie Couric?
American Idol host Ryan Seacrest has his eye on the face of the CBS Evening News, according to The Globe’s Loosh Lips column.
Just days after returning from a romantic Paris getaway with rumored new galpal Jasmine Waltz, Ry met Katie at a taping of American Idol, where the television personality allegedly confessed to a friend that he has always been a bit taken with the middle-aged newswoman.
A source says: “Katie kept looking Ryan up and down in his black suit. Later, Ryan revealed that he wouldn’t mind hooking up with Katie and kept asking if she was available.”
Earlier this month, Katie Couric joined the Twitter craze sweeping the nation, but the veteran newswoman will be the first tell you that she finds the social networking site a bit trivial.
“I Twitter and blog very selectively,” the CBS Evening News anchor said while speaking at the Walter Cronkite Awards at USC on Wednesday, according to Variety. “Some of it is so inane and narcissistic and bizarre, I don’t quite get it. I don’t know why anyone would want to read it, much less why I would want to write it.”
“I don’t think anybody gives a rat’s ass whether I am about to eat a tuna sandwich. I don’t even care.” Read the rest of this entry »
“My parents have stories. They probably have better stories than I do,” Grammy-nominated singer Katy Perry says in an interview on Katie Couric’s All Access Grammy Special
“[But] they found God, you know?” Katy says of her parents, who are traveling Pentecostal ministers. “They needed to find God. Not that they needed to find God, God found them, really.”
Katie’s Grammy special airs this Wednesday night @ 9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT on CBS.
Justin Timberlake on Katie Couric’s All-Access Grammy Special
This Wednesday, Feb. 4, at 9 PM, veteran newscaster Katie Couric will host an hour-long special in celebration of the 2009 Grammy Awards. Read the rest of this entry »
CBS News’ Katie Couric has landed the first interview with the heroic Hudson River pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger and his crew, The Associated Press reports. The interview is set to air on 60 Minutes on February 8.
In a new interview with filmmaker John Ziegler, Governor Sarah Palin cries that she was treated unfairly by the press during the 2008 presidential campaign.
She even blasted comedienne Tina Fey, who appeared as Palin in a series of popular SNL parodies, as well as journalist Katie Couric, who stumped the elected official with the question “What newspapers do you read?”
“I did see that Tina Fey was named entertainer of the year and Katie Couric’s ratings have risen…That’s a little bit perplexing, but it also says a great deal about our society.”
“…Katie, you’re not the center of everybody’s universe.”
Palin’s interview with appear in the conservative documentary How Obama Got Elected.
The CBS Evening News anchorwoman has traded in her traditional medium-length locks for a more masculine blunt buzz, which she debuted during the Evening News broadcast on Monday night.
So far, Katie’s new ‘do isn’t waking up to rave reviews, with the New York Daily News calling the veteran journalist’s snip a “hair-raising new look that put the “ew” in the evening news.”
In this preview from tonight’s interview with CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric, Senator Barack Obama talks about the events that have upset him the most during his campaign for The White House.
