The exiting Us Weekly veteran is “in final negotiations with E! with Ted [Harbert, the network president] who loves him and Ryan Seacrest pushed to get him this job,” says the inbox. “Ryan has made it easy for his friend to get a job there. No official announcement yet but he is already working stories for them. He’s very excited about his new role thanks to the one friend he has left in Hollywood. With Ryan’s help he is negotiating for a big role and the top guns at E! love Ryan and love Ken.”
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In our never-ending mission to chronicle the philandering of top level executives at media companies, we’re pleased to bring you word that E! network president Ted Harbert is said to be sleeping with Chelsea Handler, the host of The Chelsea Handler Show, which appears on – you guessed it – the E! channel.
But don’t get too excited: It’s not like Harbert is cheating on his wife of nearly 30 years or anything. Well, technically he is, but they’re separated and on their way to a finalized divorce in the coming months. But it’s certainly worth noting that it was Harbert who personally greenlighted Handler’s show, which, ironies of ironies, carries the tagline “From one-night stands to kinky classrooms to a spa day with Gary Coleman, this broad’s not afraid to get to the bottom of things.”
And here you thought Rupert Murdoch and Wendi Deng owned the media-chieftan-sleeping-with-talent scandal.