Luckily, I’ve been fortunate to not make any REALLY big gaffe’s…plenty of small to medium ones that’s for sure.  One that always comes to mind: 1992, working in my first job in New Hampshire, I was by far the youngest on air staffer on the anchor desk. I was doing a tease for a story on a New England Patriots star running back who had been stabbed in a bar incident early that morning. I come on the air and even though it was already reported it was just a flesh wound; I announce to the audience so and so of the New England Patriots FATALLY stabbed in a bar fight, that story when we come back!   We go to commercial and the place freaks out! FATALLY???? The news anchor, weatherman, floor director, producer, just about everyone yelled.  Oops, I meant to say, “SERIOUSLY STABBED.”  To this day, I have no idea why FATALLY came out.

2. Favorite Junk food?

I’ve got a few--Pizza every Saturday afternoon, red and chocolate licorice, Reece’s Peanut Butter cups, salmonella scare and all. Does not faze me!

3. You have a week vacation, where do you go?
I go to one of two places. Pebble Beach and stay at either the Lodge at Pebble Beach or the Inn at Spanish Bay, OR, and I do happen to go here every year-The One & Only Palmilla Resort in Los Cabos.  It is the BEST. I go all the time.

4. What’s been you best interview to date and your worst?

I don’t like to say “best” interview. I actually heard one of the hosts of the Insider/ET talk about a star and say “that was my best interview”, my response was “and how do you know?” It just sounded odd. I have enjoyed a number of people I have spoken with, some more than others.  The WORST interview of ALL TIME was with actor Jason Patrick. What a jerk. He made Christian Bale seem like Dame Judi Dench.  I was a correspondent for Entertainment Tonight and I was on location in the middle of the Carribean on a yacht with Jason and Sandra Bulluck.  Speed 2!  Need I say more?  I’m interviewing both of them together; I throw some softball question right off the top to get them talking, something about filming on this amazing yacht in the middle of water, all the luxuries you could ask for and this bozo looks at me and says, “Is that really your question?”  I respond, “Yes, it is” and he comes back with, “You came all this way to ask me that question,” I come back with “The good news Jason, I do have others!”  He gets up and storms off swearing; Sandra is left behind, embarrassed for him and red-faced.  She was wonderful.  He was not, the MOVIE… it speaks for itself!  Keanu Reeves said NO for a reason!

5. What story would you love to cover?

More like story I would have wanted to cover:  I was a sportscaster up until 2006 with that 4-year break while at ET.  Having grown up in New Jersey and spent so much time in the city as a kid and seeing the trade towers in my skyline all my life, I regret not being here and being a news reporter during 9/11.  We are all connected, and all have people we know we lost or were affected.  It was very tough to live in another state and see all of the people I grew up with and around suffering.

6. At 15 you wanted to?

Be Phil Simms. I love the NY Football Giants as much as I love my family.  Ok, maybe a tiny notch below.  I wanted to be the QB of the G-men.  No if ands or buts.

7. If you could swap jobs, whose would you take?

SULLY! The Hero Captain of flight 1549.  The Man is the epitome of cool and calm under pressure and now a national treasure.  Who better to want to be? The man could land the space shuttle on the FDR.

When confronted with a potential catastrophe he had one plan-get the plane down and get his passengers and crews off the aircraft safely.   I’d swap jobs with Sully anyday.

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