October 5, 2009 – 8:23 pm
During today’s (October 4) taping of CBS’ Late Show, David Letterman apologized to his staff and wife for the his past sexual relationships with staffers, the subject of an extortion attempt that led to last week’s arrest of a CBS News producer.
An excerpt:
“I’m terribly sorry that I put the staff in that position. [...]
October 5, 2009 – 6:04 pm
David Letterman apparently apologized to his wife while taping his late-night show today (October 5).
Audience member Tracy Frye, of Dallas, Texas says, “David apologized to his wife and his colleagues at Worldwide Pants. He said he didn’t really think through what he said on-air last week and how it would affect his co-workers.”
Dave [...]
October 5, 2009 – 2:22 pm
Today’s New York Post is calling for the firing of David Letterman.
Writes Andrea Peyser: “CBS has got to dump David Letterman. Right now. If the Tiffany Network continues to coddle the crotchety king of late night, it will rightly be known as the destination of choice for any girl who jiggles, giggles and [...]
October 5, 2009 – 11:08 am
The Letterman drama just won’t stop.
Today (October 5) the New York Post quotes unidentified sources as saying that after Dave Letterman broke up with his young assistant (Stephanie Birkitt), he couldn’t stand being around her new boyfriend Robert “Joe” Halderman, the CBS producer now charged with trying to extort money from the talk show host. [...]
October 5, 2009 – 10:38 am
Holly Hester claims she was “one of David Letterman’s top 10.”
Hester reportedly had an internship on the show in the early ’90s. At the time she was a student at NYU.
Hester says during a hiatus, Dave called her up and asked her to the movies. It began a series of secret dates, [...]
October 2, 2009 – 7:10 am
Testifying before a grand jury on Thursday (October 1), David Letterman revealed a $2 million extortion plot and acknowledged serveral sexual relationships with various female staff members on his CBS Late Show.
The late-night host reportedly received a package a few weeks ago from a person claiming to know about the secret relationships and threatening to [...]