Former staffer Nell Scovell finally speaks up to unveil the dirty undercover world of the Late night shows commanded by whoever plays the ‘sexual politics’ better. Nell was the second female hired to write for David Letterman in 17 years and worked for only five months before leaving the show.
“People who have no knowledge of the situation are voicing opinions, so why not me?” Nell Scovell writes. “Letterman himself opened this up to a public discussion … I’d like to pivot the discussion away from the bedroom and toward the writers’ room, because it pains me that almost 20 years later, the situation for female writers in late-night-TV hasn’t improved.”
YES, there is a David Letterman Sex Tape!!! David and a much younger female co-worker were caught in very compromising positions by surveillance cameras in the studio.
“If the tape makes its way into the criminal case, it’ll explode his marriage to smithereens,” revealed a close source.
“It’s one thing for him to have publicly admitted to having had sexual relations with some women on his staff. It’s another to see him in the throes of passion with one of those women.
“Dave apparently didn’t know the location of the security cameras at his Late Show studio.”
Sources says this tape might play a key role in the trial of CBS News producer Robert Halderman, who has been charged for extortion, and completely destroy his already troubled marriage withRegina Lasko (photos). This can also put an end to ‘The Late Show’ and Dave’s career!
’30 Rock’ star Tina Fey revealed she was a 24 year-old virgin and that she basically saved herself for her husband, Jeff Richmond, on ‘The Late Show With David Letterman’ Wednesday (October 14) – watch video below.
Tina said, “[I] Couldn’t give it away. That’s just good, Christian values, or, being homely.” The 39 year-old actress married her husband back in 2001 after dating for seven years and they have a 4 year-old daughter named Alice. Tina, who is one of the sexiest funny ladies in the business, covers the latest issue of Harper’s Bazaar (read interview + photos here).
Actress Drew Barrymore, who was asked about the latest sex scandal involving talk show hostDavid Letterman, said that the situation is “unfortunate” and recalled how much fun she had on the show when she jumped on his desk and flashed her boobs (photos and video below).
“I hope I didn’t start anything by jumping on his desk!” Drew said, adding, “I’ve always had fun there. I feel, you know, it’s an unfortunate situation. I’m not one to comment on it, and I wish them the best, because that’s an unfortunate situation.”
The boob flash incident happened on Letterman’s birthday back in 1995 and is still probably one of the biggest moments in Late Show history.
Regina and Letterman, who dated for 23 years, finally tied the knot back in March and they have a 5 year-old son named Harry Joseph. Now Regina reportedly wants a quick divorce.
“It’s become a real battle,” a Late Show insider told American tabloid the National Enquirer. “Regina is humiliated, and she wants to get even with David for his public admission he cheated on her repeatedly during their 23-year relationship. She was mortified that David carried on sexual relationships with a number of his female staffers — including his former assistant Stephanie Birkitt.”
Apparently the couple did not sign a pre-nuptial agreement so this divorce can cost Dave millions of dollars, not to mention a nasty court battle for the custody of their son.
David Letterman, who recently revealed to be a victim of extortion, had affairs with at least two women, Stephanie Birkitt and Holly Hester (photos below). Stephanie recently broke up with ‘48 Hours’ producer Robert “Joe” Halderman, who has been arrested after allegedly blackmailing the late show host - $2 million or Stephanie’s diary, which reveals all the sordid details of the affair, would be made public.
Another woman Holly Hester also revealed she had a secret sexual affair with David for a year when she was an NYU student and an intern for the show back in the 90’s. Holly claims it all started with secret dates and that she was truly in love with Dave, who broke up with her because of their age difference. Holly said, “I was madly in love with him at the time. I would have married him. He was hilarious.”
These might not have been the only girls, staff members, Dave romanced over the years as the Late Show host. A source revealed, the 62 year-old host kept a secret room called “the bunker”, which was “open only to his favorite young female underlings”, above his set in the Ed Sullivan Theater on Broadway.
Late Show host David Letterman has finally publicly apologized to his wife Regina Lasko Lettermanfor his office affair with former Late Show assistantStephanie Birkitt on Monday (October 5). This woman may not be the only member of the staff that had an intimate relationship with Dave in the past.
Dave said, “Now the other thing is my wife, Regina. She has been horribly hurt by my behavior, and when something happens like that, if you hurt a person and it’s your responsibility, you try to fix it.
“And at that point, there’s only two things that can happen,” he continued. “Either you’re going to make some progress and get it fixed, or you’re going to fall short and perhaps not get it fixed, so let me tell you folks, I got my work cut out for me.”
Despite Letterman claiming these affairs happened before he tied the knot, David and Regina have been together for 23 years and they have a 5 year-old son named Harry. Since Letterman’s confession on Thursday (watch video here), CBS News producer Robert Halderman has been arrested for extortion.
David Letterman on his Late Night with David Letterman show last night confessed to multiple sexual affairs with staffers and employees at the show.
The confession came during the revelation that allegedly Robert Joel Halderman, who works on the crime show 48 Hours had placed a package in the back of his car blackmailing him in hopes of extorting a $2 million check in exchange for not exposing Letterman’s multiple sexual affairs with staffers and embarrassing Letterman. Research shows that a Joe Halderman was an Emmy award winning producer from 48 Hours.
Most in the audience thought Dave was telling an extended joke, even as the story extended to nearly 10 minutes long. It did finally become evident towards the very end that Dave was serious, relieved that the blackmailer was locked up, and a bit uneasy admitting the sexual affairs to his audience.
He did a good job in mixing in jokes, being light, showing fear, and basically keeping his audience off balance, to where, for the most part, the news didn’t hit as hard as it normally would have.
One of his funnier lines: “I know what you’re saying,” he said. “I’ll be darned, Dave had sex.”
Dave recently wed his girlfriend Regina Lasko of nearly two decades back in March. The couple has a son, Harry, that was born back in 2003.
Letterman now has more in common with arch nemesis Bill O’Reilly than he would like to. The difference with O’Reilly being that he was allegedly extorted by a former female employee he had been sexual with on some level. A settlement was reached in that case. It will be interesting the next time ‘the Factor’ is on Late Night with good ole’ Dave Letterman.
Halderman will be charged with and tried for extortion.
Singer Madonna was a special guest of the “Late Show with David Letterman” on Wednesday (September 30). Madonna joked about her alleged “relationship” with Alex Rodriguez, talked about her new greatest hits album “Celebration” (watch music video here) and divorce from Guy Ritchie.
When asked about living in London for 8 years while she was married to Guy, Madonna said, “It was the Bush years, a good time to be out of America” and if she would get married again, she responded “I think I’d rather get run over by a train.” Dave and Madonna finally went out on a date for her to enjoy her first slice of pizza.
Obama said, “I think it’s important to realize that I was actually black before the election.”
“One of the things that you sign up for in politics is that folks yell at you,” the president said, noting that “whenever a president tries to bring about significant changes, particularly during times of economic unease, there is a certain segment of the population that gets very riled up.”
Former President Carter was specifically referring to Joe Wilson’s outburst (watch video) during Obama’s health care speech when he made those accusations. The truth is that we are entitled to our political opinions and beliefs and we might not express them in an appropriate way but it does not mean we are racists!
David Letterman apologized to Sarah Palin and her two daughters, Willow and Bristol, again, last night on The Late Show (video above). Last week Dave made a joke about Palin’s 14-year old girl having sex with Alex Rodriguez during the game (statutory rape). Letterman has claimed throughout the controversy that he thought the daughter in attendance with Governor Palin was the 18-year old daughter and not the 14-year old Willow.
Dave seemed to truly understand the outrage over his coarse joke and seemed to be somewhat sincere in his apology to the Palin family on Monday night.
“All right, here - I’ve been thinking about this situation with Governor Palin and her family now for about a week - it was a week ago tonight, and maybe you know about it, maybe you don’t know about it. But there was a joke that I told, and I thought I was telling it about the older daughter being at Yankee Stadium. And it was kind of a coarse joke. There’s no getting around it, but I never thought it was anybody other than the older daughter, and before the show, I checked to make sure in fact that she is of legal age, 18. Yeah. But the joke really, in and of itself, can’t be defended. The next day, people are outraged. They’re angry at me because they said, ‘How could you make a lousy joke like that about the 14-year-old girl who was at the ball game?’ And I had, honestly, no idea that the 14-year-old girl, I had no idea that anybody was at the ball game except the Governor and I was told at the time she was there with Rudy Giuliani…And I really should have made the joke about Rudy…” (audience applauds) “But I didn’t, and now people are getting angry and they’re saying, ‘Well, how can you say something like that about a 14-year-old girl, and does that make you feel good to make those horrible jokes about a kid who’s completely innocent, minding her own business,’ and, turns out, she was at the ball game. I had no idea she was there. So she’s now at the ball game and people think that I made the joke about her. And, but still, I’m wondering, ‘Well, what can I do to help people understand that I would never make a joke like this?’ I’ve never made jokes like this as long as we’ve been on the air, 30 long years, and you can’t really be doing jokes like that. And I understand, of course, why people are upset. I would be upset myself.
“And then I was watching the Jim Lehrer ‘Newshour’ - this commentator, the columnist Mark Shields, was talking about how I had made this indefensible joke about the 14-year-old girl, and I thought, ‘Oh, boy, now I’m beginning to understand what the problem is here. It’s the perception rather than the intent.’ It doesn’t make any difference what my intent was, it’s the perception. And, as they say about jokes, if you have to explain the joke, it’s not a very good joke. And I’m certainly - ” (audience applause) “- thank you. Well, my responsibility - I take full blame for that. I told a bad joke. I told a joke that was beyond flawed, and my intent is completely meaningless compared to the perception. And since it was a joke I told, I feel that I need to do the right thing here and apologize for having told that joke. It’s not your fault that it was misunderstood, it’s my fault. That it was misunderstood.” (audience applauds) “Thank you. So I would like to apologize, especially to the two daughters involved, Bristol and Willow, and also to the Governor and her family and everybody else who was outraged by the joke. I’m sorry about it and I’ll try to do better in the future. Thank you very much.” (audience applause)
Yesterday, we told you about a group that had set up the website FireDavidLetterman.com to stage a protest outside of the Ed Sullivan theater today to call for Letterman’s head. Will that group show up at 4:30pm ET today as they had planned, and if so how many will be in attendance?
The first apology by Dave was extremely flawed. His apology on Monday night came across as sincere and should in all fairness to all parties bring a close to this ugly controversy.
David Letterman made several very cruel jokes about Sarah Palin and her daughter going to a Yankees game during the former VP candidate’s visit to New York City.
During the opening monologue on Tuesday night (June 9), Dave said: “One awkward moment for Sarah Palin at the Yankee game. During the seventh inning, her daughter was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez” (watch video above). Bad taste? Yes! Funny? Absolutely!
Sarah Palin took this joke very seriously and attacks Dave Letterman by calling him a pervert for making a sexual joke about a minor (wait! I thought Dave was talking about Bristol Palin!) via the following statement:
“Concerning Letterman’s comments about my young daughter (and I doubt he’d ever dare make such comments about anyone else’s daughter): Laughter incited by sexually-perverted comments made by a 62-year-old male celebrity aimed at a 14-year-old girl is not only disgusting, but it reminds us some entertainers have a long way to go in understanding what the rest of America understands–that acceptance of inappropriate sexual comments about an underage girl, who could be anyone’s daughter, contributes to the atrociously high rate of sexual exploitation of minors by older men who use and abuse others.”
The Late Show host presented another one of his funny Top Ten lists “Highlights of Sarah Palin’s Trip To New York” and said Palin had the style of a “slutty flight attendant” (watch video below the fold).
Dave had the opportunity to clear up the situation and responded to Sarah Palin on his “Late Show” on Wednesday, June 10 (watch video below the fold). David explains he was actually talking about her 18 year-old daughter Bristol Palin, who recently gave birth to baby Tripp and has became a high-profile advocate for abstinence.
Dave said: “We were, as we often do, making jokes about people in the news and we made some jokes about Sarah Palin and her daughter [Bristol]… and now they’re upset with me… These are not jokes made about her 14-year-old daughter. I would never, never make jokes about raping or having sex of any description with a 14-year-old girl…. Am I guilty of poor taste? Yes. Did I suggest that it was okay for her 14-year-old daughter to be having promiscuous sex? No.”
I love Dave! So funny! Speak your mind in the comments!
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Eccentric radio host Howard Stern was the special guest of “The Late Show With David Letterman” on Monday (June 8). Howard claims he was the first to do the butt-naked stunt on MTV Movie Awards – Sacha Baron Cohen aka Bruno is just a copy-cat – and teases Dave about his recent wedding to long-time girlfriendRegina Lasko.
Watch Howard Stern On David Letterman Part 2 & 3 Below go on reading »
David Letterman is officially off the market, ladies!! The Late Show host has secretly tied the knot with his longtime girlfriend, Regina Lasko, only revealing the happy news during the early taping of the show today, according to US Magazine.
“On Thursday, at 3 p.m., March 19, 2009, at the Teton County Courthouse in Choteau, Montana, I was married to Regina Lasko,” Letterman said about 20 minutes into the show, before he read the “Top 10″ list.
“Regina and I began dating in February of 1986, and I said, ‘Well, things are going pretty good, let’s just see what happens in about ten years…’” he continued.
Another celebrity afraid of ruining things after getting married! I’m not the only one afraid of commitment that makes me feel so much better… thank you, Dave!!
But I think it’s safe to say after ten years a signed paper shouldn’t make a difference and it sounds so much better to call your significant other hubby or wife. David is a bit too old to still be calling the mother of his 5 year-old son, Harry Joseph, girlfriend.
“…I had avoided getting married pretty good for, like, 23 years, and I — honestly, whether this happened or not — I secretly felt that men who were married admired me…like I was the last of the real gunslingers, you know what I’m saying?’” he joked.
The family’s truck got stuck in the mud en route to the courthouse, he explained. Letterman “walked two miles back to the house in 50 mph wind,” he said. “It’s not Beverly Hills — it’s Montana.
“And the whole way, I’m thinking, ‘See, smart ass, see you try to get married and this is what happens,’” he went on.
Oh, it’s so romantic! Congratulations to the happy couple and let them live happily ever after!
