Ted Casablanca

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Ted Casablanca (born Bruce Bibby) 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.

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[edit] Biography

[edit] Career

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 Bruce 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. He has a long-time boyfriend named Jon Powell.[1]

[edit] Television and Film Appearances

Casablanca has appeared on several television series, usually as a commentator, but he has also appeared as himself on Grosse Pointe[2] and, most recently, in an episode of General Hospital in February 2007.[3]

In 2006, he provided commentary alongside cast member Barbara Parkins for the special edition DVD of Valley of the Dolls. He also appeared in the featurette on the bonus DVD entitled, The Divine Ms. Susann. Casablanca has been a long-time fan of the film. The name "Ted Casablanca" was borrowed from a minor character from Valley.[2]

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.[4]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Casablanca, Ted (May 8, 2007}, The Awful Truth, Eonline.com. Retrieved June 29, 2007.
  2. ^ a b Ted Casablanca at the Internet Movie Database
  3. ^ "In", Soap Opera Weekly, 2007-02-27, p. 5. 
  4. ^ Casablanca, Ted (2007-02-8). E! Online: The Awful Truth, Familial Fracas!. Retrieved on 2007-11-06.

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