Regis Philbin isn't ready to say who he thinks would be the best replacement for him when he leaves 'Live' at the end of the summer, but one of the names that keeps popping up in the executive suites over at ABC is none other than Lisa Rinna.
"Lisa has proved she can do the job," one exec tells me. "She has co-hosted the show with Regis, filled in for Joy Behar on her show and was even better than Billy Bush when she stepped into his shoes on 'Access Hollywood's' new daytime show."
Could she do it? Absolutely, but there are questions like what would her chemistry be like with Kelly, and would she be willing to move her entire family from sunny LA to the snowpocalypse that is NYC?
Always the class act, my friend Lisa wouldn't comment on any of the speculation but did tell me, "Regis taught me everything that I know. He is the king!"
[Fun Fact: Lisa and I were at the show the morning the magnificent Kathie Lee Gifford announced she was leaving.]
Now, with the idea of co-hosting 'Live' in her head, Lisa has started to exude some of her trademark confidence and pointed out that this wouldn't be the first time she's been up for the job.
"You know, back 10 years ago I filled in many times with Regis when Kathie Lee left," Lisa reminded me. "I've been so fortunate enough to co-host with him at least 10 times or more and was up for the job to replace Kathie Lee, but of course Kelly was the perfect choice for it."
Indeed she was, but now she needs a co-pilot. Paging ABC!
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Owen Wilson Proves Celebrity Privacy Possible
We hear a lot of whining from celebrities about how they have no privacy, how they can't lives their lives away from the cameras and a prying media and generally how it is just so hard to be them. But some celebrities do have privacy, and Owen Wilson proved this week that living your life away from the cameras is indeed possible.
We learned yesterday that Wilson is about to be a proud papa --- not nine months from now but any day. That means that Wilson has been able to keep girlfriend Jade Duell's pregnancy under wraps for the better part of a year. And it isn't like the actor has been away from the spotlight. He released two big movies in the past two months, the romantic comedy 'How Do You Know?' with Reese Witherspoon and 'Little Fockers.'
Wilson had every opportunity to share his happy news, but he opted to keep his personal life personal, proving that stars can be left alone if that's what they want.
But for most of them, it isn't what they really want.
"Celebrities only have to reveal what they want us to know. Here is yet another example of how a star can have a private life if they so choose," says 'Cult of Celebrity' author Cooper Lawrence. "This is a good lesson to remember the next time something 'leaks out' about a star and they act horrified that it did."
Lawrence explains that celebrity really is a creation of publicists, agents and managers, all of whom decide what we can and can't know about a star.
"When they sell us this image it makes us feel like we have an all-access pass to their lives and they are open to us," Lawrence says. "Thus, we get used to thinking that we know them and that we are entitled to every bit of information about them."
But we really just get what they want to give us, and Wilson didn't want to give us his girlfriend's pregnancy until it was almost over.
There's a lesson here for celebs prone to complain about their lack of privacy. Go to Hawaii and shut your trap. You'll be left alone if that's what you really want, but we don't think you do.
We learned yesterday that Wilson is about to be a proud papa --- not nine months from now but any day. That means that Wilson has been able to keep girlfriend Jade Duell's pregnancy under wraps for the better part of a year. And it isn't like the actor has been away from the spotlight. He released two big movies in the past two months, the romantic comedy 'How Do You Know?' with Reese Witherspoon and 'Little Fockers.'
Wilson had every opportunity to share his happy news, but he opted to keep his personal life personal, proving that stars can be left alone if that's what they want.
But for most of them, it isn't what they really want.
"Celebrities only have to reveal what they want us to know. Here is yet another example of how a star can have a private life if they so choose," says 'Cult of Celebrity' author Cooper Lawrence. "This is a good lesson to remember the next time something 'leaks out' about a star and they act horrified that it did."
Lawrence explains that celebrity really is a creation of publicists, agents and managers, all of whom decide what we can and can't know about a star.
"When they sell us this image it makes us feel like we have an all-access pass to their lives and they are open to us," Lawrence says. "Thus, we get used to thinking that we know them and that we are entitled to every bit of information about them."
But we really just get what they want to give us, and Wilson didn't want to give us his girlfriend's pregnancy until it was almost over.
There's a lesson here for celebs prone to complain about their lack of privacy. Go to Hawaii and shut your trap. You'll be left alone if that's what you really want, but we don't think you do.
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