Steven Cojocaru
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Steven "Cojo" Cojocaru (born on January 5, 1965 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a flamboyantly gay fashion critic. From a family of immigrants from Romania, Cojocaru started out as a magazine columnist, and eventually began working on American television shows as a falsetto-voiced commentator and celebrity interviewer.
He graduated from Wager High School in 1979. According to his year book, his past-times in high school were skiing, clubbing and going to concerts. He quotes Ian Dury's Sex, Love and Rock and Roll. He listed Olympic Skier as his ambition. He didn't show up to his 25 year High School reunion.
Cojocaru began working in 1991 for the Canadian fashion magazine Flare. After moving to Hollywood, he began writing a column. He was People Magazine's West Coast fashion editor, and has written an autobiography, Red Carpet Diaries: Confessions of a Glamour Boy (2003).
In 2003, he joined the cast of the long-running syndicated entertainment show Entertainment Tonight.
He has also worked at E!, Access Hollywood, and MTV, where, in one of his most famous interviews he asked someone, "Who can blame a guy for asking for more sex?".
In 2003 and 2004, Cojocaru worked on American Idol, helping the contestants select new wardrobe pieces from show sponsor Old Navy.
In November 2004 he announced that he was suffering from polycystic kidney disease and would require a kidney transplant. He underwent transplant surgery on January 14, 2005, after his friend Abby Finer donated one of her kidneys 9OK11!!!!' He appeared on talk shows to discuss the operation, where he also revealed his being fired from The Today Show [1]. Viewer complaints about him and on-screen dislike of him by host Matt Lauer and others contributed to his firing.
