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Matt Lauer Injured in Bike Accident

Hollywood Grind — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:59:35 +0000

Meredith Vieira told viewers this morning that Matt Lauer had been injured in a bicycle accident. While Matt was riding his bike when a deer jumped out in front of him. No word if Lauer and the deer collided. Vieira said:

"Matt’s banged up with a displaced shoulder, it popped out, so hopefully he’ll be on the mend soon."

"Matt thinks the deer was hired by the competition."

Vieira insisted:

"I hired the deer, but I said, ’Just graze him.’"

There’s probably an internal investigation to see if the deer was hired by Fox News.

Get well soon Matt.

Anne Curry and Meredith Vierra Fight on Today Show

Hollywood Grind — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:32:42 +0000

Meredith Vierra mentioned this morning that Anne Curry’s mom got a makeover. It appears Vierra wasn’t supposed to say anything, or at least Curry didn’t appreciate the comment on live TV, so she gave Vierra a very firm nudge. Look at the expressions on their faces. Both looked very unhappy, and very uncomfortable. Looks like Vierra isn’t very popular on the Today Show. Maybe they could replace her with Katie Couric.

Note to Vierra, don’t talk about a coworker’s family on TV. That’s their business, not yours.

Meredith Viera is More Interested in Hair

Hollywood Grind — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:34:27 +0000

Meredith Viera did one of those hard hitting interviews for the Today Show with polygamist cult members. As the consumate professional she is, Meredith asked what was on every woman’s mind, what’s with the hair? The woman in the middle plucked her unibrow for her appearance … seriously. Even polygamists like to look their best for TV.

Even $1 Million Won’t Thaw the Ice Between Paris Hilton and Today’s Matt Lauer

Hollywood Grind — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:01:57 +0000

Today will pay Paris Hilton $1 million for the privilege of being the first TV outlet to broadcast her post-jail whining.

Not a surprising development, but still disheartening.

Paris Hilton will likely trot out of jail Monday, attend a big fat party thrown by her daddy in Vegas, and then hop on a private jet to get paid a fortune for talking to Meredith Vieira about how jail is so hard.

It’s a place where you get locked up in a cell smaller than Hilton’s walk-in closet and it’s COLD in there. So not "hot."

According to the New York Post, Hilton refused to be interviewed by Matt Lauer because he’s said "disparaging" things about her in the past.

Maybe she’s just still miffed about him dressing up like her for Halloween a couple years ago. It was great!

Meredith Vieira Asks Al Sharpton about Racial Double Standard

Hollywood Grind — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:25:41 +0000

Meredith Vieira turned the tables on Rev. Al Sharpton this morning, blasting him for not doing enough to stop black rappers from using words like "ho" and "b**ch" in their lyrics while excoriating Don Imus for doing so.

Sharpton was on the "Today" show this morning to react to Imus’ firing by MSNBC, and the Rev. repeated his contention that Imus’ place on the "public" airwaves made him responsible, and ultimately culpable, for his "nappy-headed hos" remark. Vieira then challenged Sharpton, demanding to know why he didn’t hold hip-hop and rap artists more responsible for "spreading the message" of demeaning and abusive language, and accusing Sharpton of perpetuating a "double standard."

Sharpton explained that his organization, National Action Network, was working to get more rappers with "positive messages" onto the airwaves, but acknowledged that those rappers were not getting the same attention.

Each generation of youth have their own cultural language which is used by people throughout our society. Some, like Imus, use the same words as the youth without understanding the context, and so the meaning is not the same, and the reaction is different. Imus misused the words "nappy headed ho," and for this miscommunication he will lose his career.

Rappers know their language is negative, but because it fits the language of today’s youth they get a pass and keep selling CDs. The use of those words by rappers promotes violence, crime, and racial hatred. Despite this rappers are given a pass by Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. Crystal Meth is also popular among many youth. Should rappers by allowed to sell Crystal Meth? Of course not. It seems so obvious. What is equally obvious is that Sharpton and Jackson won’t criticize fellow blacks for doing the same thing as white men like Imus, and that is both an injustice, and a double standard. Don’t interpret this as defending Imus. The message is that hypocrites like Sharpton and Jackson that promote racial inequalities, and a double standard, promote racial hatred as much as rappers.

Both Sharpton and Jackson publicly convicted the Duke Lacrosse players of being guilty of raping a black stripper. The Lacrosse players have been declared INNOCENT. The stripper did have DNA of 5 men inside her vagina the night of the rape, but no DNA of any Lacrosse player was found. Right after the rape lie the stripper got pregnant, and has had the baby already. None of the DNA found in the stripper was from her boyfriend, and her boyfriend was not the father of the baby. Both Sharpton and Jackson need to apologize to these three white boys, and then Sharpton and Jackson should lose their jobs for racially lynching these boys despite the evidence proving their innocence. Sharpton and Jackson need to accept responsibility for their mistakes as well.

Meredith Vieira Falls Hard on ice with Will Ferrell

Hollywood Grind — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 18:37:14 +0000

It wasn’t Will Ferrell’s fault Meredith Vieira fell and hit her head on the ice, but it sure looks like it hurt. OUCH! What can anyone expect from a graduate from The View? If it had been Rosie there would have been an earthquake that would have collapsed buildings, and the earth would be spinning on a new axis.

Joy Behar French Kisses Meredith Vieira on The View

Hollywood Grind — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 13:24:38 +0000

Joy Behar and Meredith Vieira

Friday’s episode of The View was the last hoorah for co-host Meredith Vieira, she’s set to fill Katie Couric’s seat on The Today Show. Joy Behar, Barbara Walters, Star Jones, and Elisabeth roasted their co-host for their send-off, but Joy Behar gave Meredith Vieira something to really remember, a French kiss!

Behar went in for the liplock during her turn at the dais. “I love you so much, you know that,” she told Vieira. “I just don’t know how to express it. So I thought to myself, ’What would Rosie O’Donnell do?’”

That’s when Behar made her move.

Afterwards, Vieira talked backstage about her favorite moments from her last day on ’The View.’

Vieria joins ’Today’ in September.

I can’t wait to hear Rosie comment on this Brokeback Mountain chapter in The View’s history.

Watch the video of the French kiss in the gallery after the jump…

Technorati Tags: Barbara Walters, Joy Behar, Katie Couric, Meredith Vieira, Rosie O’Donnell, Star Jones, Gossip, Celebrity Gossip, The View, The Today Show

Vieira Says Goodbye With a French Kiss – Video

Barbara Walters Boots Star Jones

Hollywood Grind — Tue, 09 May 2006 10:12:17 +0000

Barbara Walters and Meredith Vieira

Sources connected with Barbara Walters and ABC said that Barbara Walters is angry at Meredith Vieira for leaving The View. We’re told that Walters feels betrayed after giving Vieira such a launching pad over the last nine years.

We’re also told Walters is angry at ABC for not matching Vieira’s NBC offer. Vieira will reportedly earn $40 million over the next four years for anchoring ’Today.’

Ironically, Walters pulled a reverse Meredith back in 1976, when she left her job as co-anchor of NBC’s ’Today’ to co-anchor ABC’s network newscast.

As for reports that Star Jones will be booted from ’The View,’ our sources say it’s all but a sure thing. One source says: “Barbara hates Star.” The New York Post reports that Rosie O’Donnell, Vieira’s replacement, made Star’s exit a condition to joining the daily gabfest.

As for reports that Gayle King will replace Star, the television show ’EXTRA’ caught up Oprah’s good friend, who said: “All I can say is nobody from ’The View’ has talked to me about joing ’The View’ and I certainly haven’t talked to anybody at ’The View.’”

In the interview airing tonight, King told ’EXTRA’: “I can’t imagine ’The View’ without her (Star), I really can’t.”

Video

Gayle King discusses the rumor she is joining The View

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Technorati Tags: Barbara Walters, Meredith Vieira, The View, Star Jones, Gayle King, Rosie O’Donnell

Star Jones vs. Barbara Walters

Hollywood Grind — Tue, 02 May 2006 14:59:33 +0000

Everyone is expecting fireworks between Rosie
O’Donnell and Star Jones on The View, but the real hostility
lies between Star and Barbara Walters, according to the New York Post.
"You can’t even mention Star’s name around Barbara," their source says. "She
hates her. Really can’t stand her." Rumor has it Star wanted to be the moderator
of The View when Meredith Vieira leaves, but Barbara said no.

Jones’ rep said, "Star has always viewed Barbara Walters as a mentor and is
unaware of any hostility." A spokesperson for Walters says, "Star has never
angled or asked for the moderator position. Star can stay on The View as
long as she wants to, she has been very gracious."

I have to admit Star is looking more girly now that she had a load of plastic surgery, and to think all Rosie’s contract said was that she couldn’t cut her hair.

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Technorati Tags: Barbara Walters, Meredith Vieira, Rosie O’Donnell, Star Jones, The View, New York Post

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