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More Sue Simmons Cursing Via Letterman
Sue Simmons is the WNBC personality who famously swore at her co-anchor during a live promo last week, scandalizing New York viewers of NBC drama Medium and prompting sympathy from network colleagues on the Today show, who said anyone could slip up like that. But CBS' Late Show host David Letterman isn't about to let the scandal drop; he's milked the incident for all it's worth, airing a new clip of Simmons swearing every night this week. It looks like Letterman plans to make his "Local News Highlight Of The Night" feature a going concern, but making Simmons the butt of his joke every night would get pretty repetitive, wouldn't it? Yes, and actually, knowing Letterman, he can keep up this sort of drumbeat for weeks. After the jump, the four WNBC segments the Late Show has run thus far. More » -
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The Post Was Probably Drunk When It Wrote That
Yesterday, the New York Post splashed with a big story about on-air cussing WNBC anchor Sue Simmons being a drunk who liked to down cocktails before doing her show. Today, the tabloid's follow-up mentions how she denies having a drink before showtime in the last 15 years, without even acknowledging that Simmons is talking about the Post itself when she says "I understand now why many people don't trust the media." Apart from the "Journalism" issue here (ha), the odd part is that the paper should have a little more respect for fellow professional drunks. After all, boozing is a Post trademark—and it starts right at the top, with the paper's heroically enthusiastic alcohol-abusing editor Col Allan! More » -
No Booze Before Cuss Out, Says WNBC Anchor
Sue Simmons, correcting the Post: "I haven't had an alcoholic drink between shows for at least 15 years or more." [Post]
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Sue Simmons Will Apologize To You On Email, Good Luck Finding Her
Sue Simmons gets it: You don't like that she said the f-word on WNBC Monday, all angry like. So the news anchor has yanked her email address from the WNBC website, according to an email tipster. Comparing Simmons' current WNBC Web page with the latest one in archive.org, from 2007, does show that her email address was dropped at some point (images after the jump). But! If you can track down Simmons' address, she will send you a nice note of apology, as she did for Animal New York: More » -
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Kathie Lee Gifford Scared She'll Have Meltdown Too
Today hosted a very meta discussion this morning about Sue Simmons' WNBC f-bomb and Bill O'Reilly's old Inside Edition eruption, and anchpr Kathie Lee Gifford is extremely sympathetic toward both of the old TV hands and their embarassments. She told co-host Hoda Kotb there's always a chance she'll have her own "FUCK IT! DO IT NOW!" breakdown: "We're having fun, because tomorrow it could be you and I." Or maybe she was thinking of a more mild "what the FUCK are you doing" outburst. After the jump, listen to Gifford talk about how you can barely cuss anyone out in a TV studio any more because of all the satellites and bloggers and so forth. More » -
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WNBC Anchor's Swearing Was All Co-Anchor's Fault
The Times got to the bottom of WNBC anchor Sue Simmons' on-air cuss out Monday night and discovered the whole incident can basically blamed on Simmons' co-anchor Chuck Scarborough for not paying enough "fucking" attention. During the live promo, Simmons read her tease for a grocery store story, but then when the video changed to something else, Scarborough was screwing around on the computer instead of doing his own voice over, and Simmons, not knowing she was live on the air, unleashed her now-infamous line, "what the fuck are you doing?" Of course, Simmons' meltdown was just maybe exacerbated by what the Post described as her habit of drinking a few cocktails between shows: More » -
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WNBC Anchor: "What The Fuck Are You Doing?!"
Exploring, perhaps, her inner Bill O'Reilly, WNBC news anchor Sue Simmons turned what should have been a straightforward promo for the evening news into an angry cuss-out of one of her co-workers. And Simmons' cursing made it onto the air, unlike Fox News anchor O'Reilly's recently-publicized meltdown. We've received several emails from viewers who caught the cursing during a break in the season finale for NBC drama Medium, and now there's video, posted after the jump. UPDATE: And Simmons has now apologized for scandalizing the entire city of New York with the f-word. UPDATE2: Since these things come in threes I'm now waiting for Anderson Cooper to have a meltdown involving lack of skin moisturizer or something. More »
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