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Lisa Sharkey once held an enviable dayjob at Good Morning America, where she played senior producer (and professional faster … 82 days!). That was until her bosses discovered she was using her business card's pedigree to do some Star Jonesing: snag free products, services, and tickets from anyone looking for a chance to get booked on GMA.
She was, as they say, dismissed.
Following her ouster, Sharkey landed, in July 2005, at Al Roker Productions, the producing arm of the Today show weatherman that spits out programming for the Food Network and Court TV.
Only thing: She carried her trademark swag grabbing over to Roker's biz. And, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter, "Roker didn't like hearing back from folks that Sharkey was threatening to withhold business unless they gave her stuff." So what did the weatherman do? He fired her, natch. That was at the end of last year.
Now we hear Sharkey (pictured at right, with TV producer Rebecca Shalam) is trying to get back into the morning show game, putting out feelers to anyone who will take her calls — and, she's hoping, doesn't know her reputation. Except she already burned her bridges at ABC with her GMA stint, and Roker's strong ties with NBC means the door is shut there, too, says our source.
So what's left? The Early Show on CBS, the daddy of Sharkey's old haunt, KCBS, where she landed her first job before ending up at Inside Edition.
We're told she's "in talks" with CBS about possible employment, but so far it's unclear whether exec producer Michael Bass knows Sharkey is the Winona Ryder of morning TV. That might not go over well with HR.
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Lisa Sharkey was NOT dismissed from Good Morning America. Her contract was up and she chose to leave us. That is one of the many inaccuracies in your story.
It's instructive that no one at Jossip had the courage to sign their name to this lame attempt at character assassination. Seeing that truth was twisted into falsehood regarding Lisa Sharkey's choice to leave ABC (which the abovementioned ABC commenter thankfully corrected), nothing else this article's cowardly drive-by shooter has said can be believed, including the writer's (and I use that term exceedingly loosely) statement that one becomes a fasting "professional" by doing one long fast (never a statement Lisa made or would make, and she fasted 72 days, not 82. . .just one more of this 'writer's' many factual inaccuracies).
Similarly, anyone bothering to click on this smear-attempt's "professional faster" hyperlink is elevated to a level of human communication which places Jossip.com, by comparison, in humanity's garbage dumpster–a location wholly earned, if this totally inaccurate portrayal of Lisa Sharkey is indicative of this website's trash-quotient.
Some will always find a way to criticize, just as others will find a way to praise. But gossip rags like Jossip.com will always sink to the bottom of humanity's toilet, because they value slander over truth, fiction over fact, and hatred over compassion. Anyone spotlighted by the media, from Lisa Sharkey to Al Roker (whose Al Roker Productions could do America a huge favor by producing less TV programs on unskillful eating, and more on our nation's clinical-obesity epidemic), or from Hillary Clinton to Barak Obama, learns this sooner of later, just as Jossip.com's more violent but equally hateful, kindred spirits nailed Christ to a cross, twice attempted to assassinate the Buddha, and actually succeeded in assassinating Gandhi, two Kennedy brothers, and Doctor King.
It "goes with the territory," Jossip would claim, but so does the stench which follows such writers home at the end of the day, after having backed up to their 'pay' window, wondering what on Earth they are doing with their adult life in New York City. . .vis a vis their OWN most noble, innate but presently-repressed human characteristics, particularly that one all of our species' greatest spiritual teachers taught–helping to end unnecessary suffering in our global village, as opposed to dishonestly causing more. And this hit-job's writer–who apparently would have called the Buddha dn Christ "professional fasters," as well–probably also doesn't know that most all of our species' greatest thinkers did prolonged fasting, including ALL our greatest spiritual teachers, not to mention all three Fathers of Western Medicine–Hippocrates, Galen and Paracelsus (who diagnosed fasting as "the greatest remedy, the physician within").
Such hate-filled 'writers' really need to get a life, in order to salvage something positive from what time remains to them on our Earth. Perhaps Googling the word 'noble' might be a place to start your job search, after first checking the definition of the word 'truth.'–Dennis Paulson, Founder/Director, Fasting Center International, Inc.
If Lisa Sharkey is the Star Jones of television, your "source" is the Jayson Blair of journalism.
Star Jones? Wynona Ryder? Never. Ever. Clearly whoever wrote this lie-filled personal attack is getting paid to make a good woman look bad. During the past 12 years that I have worked with Lisa Sharkey she has always been highly professional, amazingly creative, and quite simply, the greatest ideas person I've ever worked with in television.
Everything in this post is totally false- i reported into lisa and she was ALWAYS by the books. absolutely the best mentor that i have ever had and the smartest business woman that i know…
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