Ted Casablanca

Ted Casablanca (born Bruce Bibby) is an American entertainment journalist for E! Online and has a column called The Awful Truth where he dispenses gossip on the private lives of celebrities.

Biography

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 (later 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 clues to otherwise unknown secrets and scandals about celebrities, prompting readers to deduce the identities of the people in these blind items.

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^[1] and, most recently, in an episode of General Hospital in February 2007.^[2]

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.^[1]

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.^[3]

Personal

He and his partner Jon Powell were married in Hawaii in May 2008.^[4]

Casablanca was born April 1,1949 somewhere in Appalachia.

References

External links

• Ted Casablanca at the Internet Movie Database
• Ted Casablanca at TV.com
• The Awful Truth