Ted Casablanca
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Texas-born Bruce Bibby, better known by his alter-ego Ted Casablanca, is an American entertainment journalist for E! Online and has a column called "The Awful Truth" where he regularly dispenses gossip on the private lives of celebrities.
Casablanca began writing for Premiere magazine in 1987 where he originally conceived his column before transferring it to E! in 1996 as a weekly (then subsequently, daily) column. He regularly presents it on E! Television and sometimes appears as a correspondent and commentator for various E! Television events. As Bibby he has written for a number of entertainment magazines and has been a contributor to the television magazine Hard Copy.
The most notable section of his Awful Truth column is his weekly "Blind Vice" piece, in which he provides cleverly constructed clues to otherwise unknown secrets and scandals about celebrities, prompting readers to deduce the identities of the people in these blind items.
[edit] Trivia
- The name "Ted Casablanca" was borrowed from a minor character in the film Valley of the Dolls. In 2006 he participated with actress Barbara Parkins on the audio-commentary for the DVD release of the film.
- Casablanca has maintained a famous long-running feud with Arnold Schwarzenegger, which began when the former actor allegedly had his bodyguards rough up Casablanca at the 1996 premiere of Schwarzenegger's film Eraser.
- Casablanca is openly gay.
