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.
Talk show host Tyra Banks revealed her real natural hair (watch video below) for the first time at the premiere of the Tyra Banks Show’s fifth season on September 8, 2009, a day she declared as the “National Real Hair Day”.
The 35 year-old former model, who is currently datingJohn Utendahl (photos), came out of the shower (makeup on!) to show her real hair (no wigs, no extensions, no hairpieces, whatever…) and have a professional style her hair in front of her audience.
Bikini Britney Spears on The Late Show with David Letterman doing a ‘Top 10 list of things she would do if she was President’.
WARNING: EXTREMELY LAME HUMOR!
Top 10 Ways The World Would Be Different If Britney Spears Were President:
10. I’d be the first President to wear eyeshadow since Nixon 9. We would only invade fun places like Cabo 8. Free pie for everybody 7. My situation room would be a cabana in the Palm Casino in Las Vegas 6. I’d lure Osama out of hiding with the irresistible scent of my new fragrance “Circus Fantasy” 5. Every Presidential news conference would feature costume changes 4. America might have a more coherent fiscal strategy 3. Challenge U.S. to put nightclub on the moon by the end of the decade 2. Three words: Vice President Diddy 1. Finally the media would pay some attention to me
A former patient named Sara Morrison accuses Dr. Phil McGraw of fondling and sexually abusing her while she was being treated by the TV Doctor. The 44 year-old woman says she looked for help when she was a college sophomore home for the summer because she suffered from low self-esteem, depression and felt suicidal back in 1984.
“Dr. Phil is a monster! Not a single day has gone by when I haven’t been affected by what Phil McGraw did to me,” Sara told The Enquirer.
“He profoundly affected the course of my life. The world should know this man is a predator and a bully. He shouldn’t be telling Americans how to live their lives, how to improve themselves.”
Sara confesses the second summer everything changed when Dr.Phil paid her to be his intern while still treating and charging her as a patient. At the time Phil, who was 34 years old, had been married to his wife Robin for more than eight years.
“The first day I showed up for work, Phil had his hands all over me,” she recalled.
“Phil would pull me down to sit in his lap while he talked on the phone to patients, other doctors, even his wife! He’d be running his hand up and down the inside of my thigh all the way up to my panties.”
Sara said the authorities were called to investigate the abuse case, which could have ended Phil’s career as a psychologist, and Robin stayed by her husband’s side not believing Sara’s story. The question is: why reveal this story now?
The new ESPN show SportsNationdebuted today at 4pm EDT on ESPN2. The show is co-hosted by the extremely cute Michelle Beadle and ESPN Radio’s Colin Cowherd.
Beadle comes across as beautiful, intelligent, and almost always more knowledgeable than Cowherd about sports. She is on top of her game and strongly overshadows Cowherd visually and often intellectually. Cowherd for sure is more comfortable on radio than he appears to be on TV.
Michelle is a better looking and smarter version of Erin Andrews. Michelle is to Albert Pujols as Erin is to Jeff Francoeur.
The show is interactive and calls on the audience often to vote on debated topics via online polls on ESPN.com
SportsNation is new, fresh, entertaining and is a much needed break from dated ESPN shows like Pardon the Interuption and Around the Horn.
Raunchy comedian Artie Lange was just that Monday night on the debut episode of ‘Joe Buck Live,’ the new HBO Sports show hosted by sports announcer Joe Buck. Lange was brash, rude, and coarse with Buck, but that is who Artie Lange is as a celebrity.
When Buck joked that his favorite Web site was TMZ.com, Lange pounced. He asked Buck, “What’s your second favorite?” and then created his own URL involving a sex act that we can’t print here. The onslaught never stopped. “Is that it? Lange asked, near the end of the show. “Because that’s what the president of HBO will be telling you soon.”
When I saw the previews for ‘Joe Buck Live’ yesterdayI asked on Twitter if anyone else found Buck as annoying and bad at his job as I do. I guess if Lange was a follower he would have responded in all caps with agreement.
It is only fitting that Buck got roasted on the first night of his show by Artie. Even the loose execs at HBO Sports almost admitted that it was over the line.
HBO Sports president Ross Greenburg said Lange “bordered on bad taste” and had a “mean-spirited” tone. Greenburg said the segment made him uncomfortable at times, but he hoped that the Favre interview (which Buck handled very well) would be the story that carried the day. “This feels like they are not going to be too complementary to his [Lange's] appearance, just judging from the reaction of the crowd. But it really is the public’s judgment. Live television is all about risk-reward and we knew who Artie Lange was when he was booked. There was a certain degree of a risk factor where he would go and where he would take us.”
At least HBO manned up to admit that they knew what they were getting when they booked Lange for the show. If you really want your debut episode to be a hit then you probably shouldn’t book the foul-mouthed Lange unless you are attempting to duplicate the Howard Stern show.
Other guests on Monday’s show included Chad Ochocinco, Michael Irvin, David Wright, Paul Rudd, Jason Sudeikis, and an interview with Brett Favre where the legendary quarterback admitted that he is in talks with the Minnesota Vikings about returning this year.
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.
The right wing call to fire David Letterman for his overtly sexual jokes about Sarah Palin’s 14-year old daughter have hit a crescendo with the arrival of FireDavidLetterman.com
The site has been set up to call for CBS to terminate Letterman from The Late Show over the comments about Palin’s daughter and his refusal to apologize for his sexist jokes/remarks about Palin and her minor daughter.
FireDavidLetterman.com is asking for everyone to show up at the Ed Sullivan theater on Tuesday at 4:30 ET to call for the firing of Letterman.
The site gave a sample letter that upset viewers could send to the show’s sponsors.
Dear Late Show Advertisers:
As an advertiser on the David Letterman show, you endorse his point of view, I am appalled that your company supports the rape of young girls.
On June 8th 2009 Mr. Letterman “joked” that a female Governor of the United States is “slutty” and worse still, “joked” about her 14 year-old daughter and statutory rape by an adult baseball player. He continued his slander of this young girl during his June 9th show, likening her to a prostitute. I refuse to buy products from a company who supports such a vulgar, reprehensible attitude toward women and girls.
Shame on you.
Don’t worry Letterman fans. Dave won’t be going anywhere, his sexist remarks will leave a tiny stain on his career, but open him up to martyrdom status with extreme liberals.
“Iron Man” star Gwyneth Paltrow paid a visit to the brand new “Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien” on Thursday (June 4). We couldn’t really concentrate on what she was saying since we couldn’t take our eyes of her long long legs… and what was going on with her legs??
The theory is the 36 year-old actress is covered in her own greasy GOOP. It is really funny Gwyneth’s explanation for her lifestyle newsletter to be called GOOP – her nickname is GP (how original!) and she wanted it to mean something (like soup) and boom Goop was born. Nonsense!
Gwyneth also talks about her 3 year-old son’s love of Jay-Z, taking a break from acting, Robert Downey Jr. and shows Conan how to give his booty a really good exercise. Conan is hilarious!!
Eminem appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live Thursday night and tutored host Jimmy Kimmel on how to become a rap star. The skit started with Kimmel dressed like Em’ and telling him horror stories from his junior high days of yesteryear. Stories that would be considered lame by most standards.
Eminem anoints Kimmel as ‘Briefcase Joe’ before leading him to the studio, where they put an organic rap to paper, with Kimmel then rapping the veggie rhyme as its recorded.
“The Tonight Show” new host Conan O’Brien announces a new social networking site called YouTwitFace that will dominate the world in the year 3000. Conan said: “In the year 3000 YouTube, Twitter & Facebook will merge into one super time wasting website called YouTwitFace.”
The band that ended their 18 year contract with Sony doesn’t have a label but their upcoming album titled “Backspacer” will be released at Target this fall (September 22). Pearl Jam performed the first single, which remains unnamed, off “Backspacer” (watch video above).
Conan O’Brien kicked off his “Tonight Show” adventure with a run across the country, from New York to Los Angeles, as “Move to L.A.” was the last item on his to-do list (watch video above). Conan’s sidekick Andy Richter and Max Weinberg continues as his favorite band leader.
“I’ve timed this moment perfectly,” O’Brien deadpanned in his opening monologue. “I’m on a last-place network, I moved to a state that’s bankrupt, and tonight’s show is sponsored by General Motors.”
Conan is back! He was a bit nervous. It is not easy to replace such a legendary host like Jay Leno, who has been hosting “The Tonight Show” for seventeen years. Conan became the fifth host of the infamous talk show after Steve Allen, Jack Paar, Johnny Carson and Jay Leno.
“I remember watching Johnny Carson when I was a kid and thinking: That’s what I want to be when I grow up,” O’Brien said. “I’m sure right now in America there is likely a kid watching me, thinking: ‘What is wrong with that man’s hair?’”
The first guest Will Ferrell was nothing but nice to the new host offering him tips for L.A. living, including a good burger joint in Pasadena “called Burger King” and singing his own version of “Never Can Say Goodbye”. The real musical guest was Pearl Jam debuting a new song from their upcoming album “Backspacer” (watch video here).
The Cosby Show was the most popular family TV show of the 1980’s, and it is still as great today, as it was when it originally aired. The cast of the show, including the legendary Bill Cosby, got together this morning for a mini-reunion on The Today Show.
We were left with more questions than answers after a tear jerking two hour Grey’s Anatomy fifth season finale on Thursday (May 15). Just when we thought both Izzie Stevens (Katherine Heigl) and George O’Malley (T.R. Knight) have finally found their happy endings, everything changes and they are standing on the thin line between life and death.
Izzie’s brain rumor was removed. She survived but has short-term memory loss. Alex comes to her rescue and challenges her to hang on to her memories then she loses consciousness. While George became an Army doctor and shows up at Seattle Grace as a John Doe, who had jumped in front of a bus to save a woman’s life. That’s when Izzie and George finally meet in the elevator!!
So did Izzie and George die on Grey’s Anatomy Season Finale? Does it mean Katherine Heigl and T.R. Knight are leaving Grey’s Anatomy??
Biggest cliff hanger ever!! Life vs. death! Katherine Heigl/Izzie Stevens wearing a prom dress and T.R. Knight/George O’Malley in an army uniform inside an elevator… and if you really want to know if they will survive, you just have to wait for next season!
House’s shocking new episode deals with the difficult issue of suicide. When Dr. Lawrence Kutner (played by Kal Penn) doesn’t show up for work, Gregory House (Hugh Laurie) sends Foreman (Omar Epps) and Hadley (Olivia Wilde) to check on him. They go to Kutner’s apartment only to find him laying in a pool of blood, apparently having committed suicide with a single gunshot.
House being House spends the rest of the episode trying to figure out why Kutner would kill himself, while two of his patients, husband and wife, are desperately trying to save the other by donating their organs to each other therefore committing suicide to save their better half.
Kutner’s death is a mystery! Fox has launched a site in tribute to Dr. Lawrence Kutner (1975 - 2009) with a memorial video, obituary and various notes from House’s characters. You can check them here at fox.com/kutner.
‘CSI’ Marg Helgenberger and her husband Alan Rosenberg have been married for 19 years and decided to take some time apart last October and try to work out their differences. Marg has finally filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences in the L.A. County Superior Court on Tuesday (March 24).
I actually thought Marg and Alan were a solid couple, made to last in the Hollywood marriage fast lane. The couple has one adult son and the 50 year-old actress asked for spousal support and is looking to split attorney fees.
