Gawker: courtney friel

'I Went on a Date With Roger Ailes...OMG- I'm Joking!'

Hamilton Nolan — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:23:14 EDT

In your socialist Tuesday media column: Nancy Pelosi helps newspapers (symbolically), Courtney Friel says "OMG," rumors of cheapskatism at Interview, and naptime for Jim Kelly:

Notable San Franciscan politician Nancy Pelosi has written a letter to the Justice Dept. asking them to ease antitrust laws so the dying San Francisco Chronicle might be able to merge or consolidate with something somewhere, and not die. This is in fact a fair request, but NANCY PELOSI LIBERAL MEDIA FRIENDS OH SURE, etc.

Whattayaknow, it's an interview with Fox News journalist Courtney Friel. Let's make up our own questions and answers. Courtney, how'd you get your job? "Well...I went on a date with Roger Ailes...OMG- I'm joking!!" Courtney, do you regret posing for Maxim and FHM? "I'm lucky I even had the opportunity to be in those magazines...which only came about as publicity for the show I was hosting at the time- the 'World Poker Tour.'" Wait, those are the real questions and answers.

A tipster tells us that Interview magazine is telling freelancers it can't pay them right about now, because they just don't have the cash. If you know more, email us.

The Writers Guild of America, West, which represents Hollywood screenwriters, is laying off 20 people by the end of the month. They have a $2 million budget gap and they had that writer's strike thing to deal with a while back and all the networks really aren't shelling out as much for writing as they used to, which adds up to 20 layoffs.

Recently departed Time managing editor Jim Kelly, the second-most famous "Jim Kelly" in New York state, tells John Koblin that ""Paid content in some fashion is just inevitable," then admits that the journalism business is so screwed up right now he's happy to just chill at home and read books and go to the movies. Smart man.

Andre Reed is open!

Fox News Correspondent Pulls Chicken From Boob, Can't Get Any Respect

Ryan Tate — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:58:10 EST

Fox News talking head Courtney Friel sure has plenty of enemies who can't forgive her unprecedented crime of being a hot-but-vapid TV news personality (see prior coverage last night). Or maybe they just hate her for taking that cliche to an extreme: One dogged detractor, the fourth we've come across and second to email in the space of three hours, sent links to more people hating on poor Courtney, more racy magazine shots allegedly pulled from her website and the following video, in which Courtney pulls what we are told is a chicken cutlet from her top:

Secret Bikini Shots Of Fox News "Bonehead"

Ryan Tate — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:54:37 EST

Fox News correspondent Courtney Friel is not keeping her enemies at bay, despite fighting them with a terrifying blog where she ponders whether to get "contrast or Fox blonde" hair treatments. First Marty Davis, a conservative former TV anchor, smacked Friel yet again, calling her a "blank canvas constitutionally incapable" of becoming a real journalist. Then another less-than-friendly observer of Friel emailed Gawker some photos apparently removed from the talking head's website after she was hired at Fox. It would seem Friel has decided that a little sexy is professional, but too much sexy — Maxim sexy — is just embarrassing. Whatever happened to "any publicity is good publicity," as she wrote on her blog? Let's test that theory, and enjoy a video courtesy commenter "The One" involving Friel and a horse dick:

Friel on Fox News' Red Eye: "I have a problem with horse male genitalia. They need to wear diapers, because I feel violated... They are setting young girls up for high expectations, because none of their men are going to be like that. I was in Hawaii and I was going to go horseback riding and that was really big, and you would have thought I wanted to ride it, but no."

Terrifying Blog Of Fox News' "Bikini Bonehead"

Ryan Tate — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 07:56:47 EST

Fox News talking head Coutrney Friel was recently called a "bikini bonehead" and a walking non-sequitur, but Friel tried to juice the hate for all it was worth on her blog, writing, "any publicity is good publicity." In that spirit, she horrifically packed 58 photographs of herself onto the single, short page that constitutes her blog, virtually all of them headshots with an identical, robotic TV smile. While her pictures disorient and stun you, Friel's undated blog posts depress you, delivering kind-of-sad news about her career in a relentlessly upbeat style:

I get a lot of emails asking when people can see me on Fox News and what my role is exactly. Well...that is the beauty of working at a 24 hour channel...I am scattered all over and constantly trying out new things.

When I first started at FNC, I hosted a bunch of "Fox&Friends". Now Page is the permanent host but I still fill in if needed!

Just added some lowlights in my hair for the fall. Which do you like better- contrast or Fox blonde? I'm undecided.

Total buzzkill for "RedEye" fans. The show has been pushed back an hour, now airing from 3-4am. I'm still a weekly regular though. At least Hawaii folks can see it at a great time- 9pm! This is what Tivo is for! Watch it before work!