Whether those rumors about the Fox Business Channel considering making a takeover bid for CNBC's Erin Burnett are true. A source connected to the Fox camp hints yes; a CNBC source has "no knowledge" of it. Fox is said to have already made a play for Maria Bartiromo, but her current contract kept her from realistically considering the option.
Finance hotties Maria Bartiromo and Erin Burnett continue to catfight whenever there are reporters handy. NY Post continues to diligently chronicle their mostly manufactured rivalry. Insanely jealous female CNBC staffers continue to hate them both equally. Jossip editors continue to rapidly lose interest.
Did you think you'd heard the last of adulteress jet-setter Maria Bartiromo (a.k.a. Money Honey, a.k.a. Bank Skank, a.k.a. Erin Burnett 1.0?) Well, think again! Because the misbehaving she-anchor can apparently add animal cruelty to her repertoire of shady journalistic ethics, wild 80's hair and husband-stealing.
MARIA Bartiromo has People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals screeching after she posed in a $3,695 Michael Kors wool coat and gushed about its fluffy fox-fur cuffs. In More magazine's September feature on fashionable female movers and shakers over 40, CNBC's "Money Honey" is seen smiling seductively in a skin-tight Celine matte jersey dress and the Kors coat. She raves: "Chic, sexy clothes are the real me . . . The coat is spectacular; the fur cuffs give it just the right amount of glamour."
All of which would be rather ho-hum if it weren't for the amazing retort from PETA spokesman, Michael McGraw.
• Lindsay Lohan's bodyguard reportedly turns down $500K and an opportunity to tell everyone what a fucked-up crack whore she really is.
• Meanwhile, Linds gets some advice from someone with impeccable morals. "Do I think it's a good move for [Lindsay] to sell her story?" asked Money Honey "Bank Skank" Maria Bartiromo. "I think as much as people are interested in what she has to say, she should capitalize on it." Neat!
• In addition to confirming her invisible pregnancy, Nicole Richie also admits to taking Vicodin for her premenstrual cramps. Before the get-out-of-jail fetus, obvs.
• Two days prior to having her bodyguard beat up photog Andrew Deetz, Britney Spears yelled, "'I am going to kill you!" and then attacked him with profanities.
• Tokyo is in for a disappointing surprise.
• Is it possible Usher was lying when he said "everything is fine" between himself and his jilted/hospitalized fiancee?
"CNBC might not be big enough for both the Money Honey, Maria Bartiromo, and the Street Sweetie, Erin Burnett," writes Page Six.
At least, not according to the older (and arguably less attractive Bartiromo) who is said to be less than thrilled about Burnett's meteoric rise to financial world fame.
Writes the New York Post:
An inside source tells Page Six the Money Honey has been fuming that curvy Burnett, in addition to her duties as anchor of "Street Signs" and co-anchor of "Squawk on the Street," is getting substantial airtime on the "Today" show, which gives her a much bigger audience. "Maria is like, hey, why isn't it me on the 'Today' show? She's very jealous of all the attention Erin is getting," our source said.
And that's just the beginning.
Who wants to be the next Maria Bartiromo? Apparently, no one. (Okaaay, that's not entirely true. That Telemundo chick definitely made a run for it by nailing the Los Angeles mayor). But now, obsessive MSNBC fans are claiming Bartiromo has found her match in rising network "star" Erin Burnett.
"Since her CNBC debut in 1993, Maria Bartiromo’s status as Wall Street’s anchorwoman has largely gone unchallenged," writes Portfolio. "That is, until Erin Burnett came along. The host of Street Signs and co-anchor of Squawk on the Street, Burnett is being dubbed 'Maria 2.0' by her fans, business bloggers are anointing her CNBC’s new superstar, and message boards are debating her merits and her makeup."
But how does Bartiromo's CNBC rival feel about the comparison? Turns out not so favorably!
• Diddy gets over the pain of losing longtime girlfriend (and the mother of his children) Kim Porter by having a cathartic threesome with two skanks in "teeny black dresses" on July 4th.
• Mariah Carey hits the jackpot with her new movie, in which she plays a singer/actress trying desperately to make all of us forget about a little something called Glitter.
• Meanwhile, Maria Bartiromo can trademark the name "Money Honey," but she can't trademark being a relatively famous news anchor and having ill-advised extramarital affairs with high profile interview subjects.
• Kevin Spacey hates being called fruity, loves ordering "the fruitiest beer" in the bar. Denial much?
• Not everyone in showbiz is an Obama fan. A crazy/hilarious YouTuber croons: "Hillary! I like your hair. The pantsuits you wear. And the shape of your derrière." Which, apparently, is much less humorous out of context.
• Nicole and Joel to celebrate the unexpected birth of their first child with an equally unexpected shotgun wedding. Huzzah!
Writing for BusinessWeek – since she's missed a few Closing Bells, she clearly has the time – embroiled CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo checks in with Sam Zell, the new Tribune Co. owner. But unlike a ride aboard a Citi jet, Maria ain't flashing her IPEX in this interview. She means bid-ness.
How can we tell? It takes a full five questions before Maria asks about anything besides Zell's plans to tear the papers apart.
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Occasionally—not often, but surely more than once or twice—we here at Jossip have come to the realization that we've made a mistake. And when this happens, we usually go with the tried-and-true "admit it, and move on" approach, lest you discerning readers think we're attempting to sweep our minor misstep under the proverbial rug.
And, in that spirit, we'd like to share this excerpt from today's Page Six, regarding a certain cheating anchorwoman and her adulteress affair:
JUST three weeks after Page Six ran a blind item about their crumbling marriage, Paula Zahn and her husband, real-estate magnate Richard Cohen, have filed for divorce. The blind item asked, "Which TV news anchorwoman is about to get separated from her husband? He suspects she's been having an affair . . . " An insider confirmed that not only does Zahn have a boyfriend, he's also married with children. Radaronline claims the man is ContiGroup CEO Paul Fribourg, who did not return our calls.
We'll have a proper Whodunit for you later today, but first we had to make note of Page Six's thinly veiled "just asking" about a certain CNBC anchor:
WHICH TV news anchorwoman is about to get separated from her husband? He not only suspects she's been having an affair, he's been investigating and he's just about finished.
Is it just us, or is Maria Bartiromo suddenly having a Case of the Mondays?
Yesterday afternoon, CNBC's Maria Bartiromo interviewed the Chairmen Emeritus of CItigroup (and former Citi CEO), Sandy Weill.
And, considering Bartiromo's infamous history with Citi execs, some viewers questioned the network's decision to grant Money Honey this particular interview.
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According to the NYP, When Maria Bartiromo's not busy fending off rumors that she cheated on her high school boyfriend, she's apparently raking in the dough by pulling double-duty…as a freelance writer.
CNBC's Money Honey Maria Bartiromo has been under fire since her close friendship and globetrotting trip on the corporate jet with Citigroup's now fired global asset management head Todd Thomson first came to light.
But she is still keeping her day job and her easy money side jobs as a magazine columnist for Business Week and Reader's Digest - where she is estimated to be pulling in another six figures in pocket change.
An additional six figures? For writing?? And here we thought "dental plan" was just one of those antiquated phrases you only hear about in old movies…
• Money Honey cheated on her high school boyfriend with a whiny loser! Fortunately for her, the lucky "other man" is still bragging about rounding second base with her a mere twenty years later.
• Radar rounds up all of YouTube's greatest accidental talents, and reminds us why they're hilarious pitiable.
• Cartoon Network looks for new chief who will focus on multiplatform initiatives, not getting fined $2 million for "fake" terrorist attack.
• With a little help from Slate, even the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue can be boring!
• We all know Anna liked yogurt, SlimFast and Worcestershire sauce, but what's in CNN's fridge? Expired milk and a Victoria's Secret bag.
• If The 1/2 Hour News Hour loses the laugh track, will anyone still be laughing? (Answer: No, no they will not).
• Money Honey made a habit of 'cozying up' to business execs; CNBC made a habit of ignoring it.
• WashingtonPost.com blogger, William M. Arkin, has received thousands of email critiques, death threats—or, one from each of President Bush's remaining supporters.
• Scooter Libby believes NBC's Andrea Mitchell will clear him in CIA leak case. Also, everyone hates Meet The Press.
• Viacom to fire 500 MTV staffers; Related: Vanessa Minnillo to try really, really hard not to drop another F-bomb.
• MySpace to keep pedophiles, perverts; get rid of copyrighted video material.
• More Time Inc. publications to move to Florida, crash your grandparents' retirement condo.
• The Portland Press Herald apologizes for accidentally threatening to destroy the entire Jewish race.
• Jeff Zucker to spin around in his desk chair while his three new senior deputies deal with "that whole YouTube thing."
• NYT has one more chance to talk about the Iraq-inspired "cartoonish violence" of this year's Super Bowl ads.
• Atoosa Rubenstein is negligibly closer to unveiling homemade films about her cat on LSD.
• In the wake of Money Honeygate, AdAge reflects on the valuable lessons we've learned about travel demands and merchandising.
• A videographer and "alleged journalist" continues to stay behind bars for no apparent reason.
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