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Ted Casablanca

 
Who2 Biography: Ted Casablanca, Columnist / TV Personality
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  • Best Known As: Author of the gossip column The Awful Truth

Name at birth: Bruce Bibby

Ted Casablanca is the alter-ego of entertainment journalist Bruce Bibby. As Casablanca he writes the gossip column The Awful Truth, in which he dishes the dirt on the private lives and public peccadilloes of actors and other stars. Casablanca started the column at Premiere, the monthly film magazine, before transferring it to E! Online in 1996 as a weekly (and later daily) column. Blonde, tousled and with a dimpled Kirk Douglas chin, Casablanca is catty, witty and given to terms like 'slurplicious' and 'slobberfest.' He makes no secret of being both gay and an unabashed lover of all things Hollywood. Casablanca also has appeared on the cable TV channel E!, both in broadcast editions of The Awful Truth and as a regular on The Gossip Show. As Bibby he was written for various entertainment magazines and has been a contributor to the TV magazine Hard Copy.

The name Ted Casablanca was borrowed from a minor character in the camp classic film The Valley of the Dolls (1967, starring Patty Duke and Sharon Tate and based on the novel by Jacqueline Susann)... Casablanca has maintained a famous long-running feud with Arnold Schwarzenegger, which began when the actor allegedly had his bodyguards rough up the writer at the 1996 premier of Schwarzenegger's film Eraser.

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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 reveals near-impossible-to-obtain gossip on the private lives of celebrities. The column has enjoyed a tremendous, and always cutting-edge following for more than a decade.

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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 intriguing section of his guilty-pleasure 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 endured a famous long-running feud with Arnold Schwarzenegger, which began when the former actor had his bodyguards rough up Casablanca at the 1996 premiere of Schwarzenegger's film Eraser.[3]

Personal

Casablanca's birth place and birth date are largely unknown, although he frequently mentions being raised in Texas.

He is also noted for his outstanding and generous efforts on behalf of better treatment for animals.

In May 2008, Casablanca married Jon Powell in Hawaii.[4] But on September 16, 2009, Casblanca announced that he and Powell had, after a separation, decided to end their union. [5]

References

  1. ^ a b Ted Casablanca at the Internet Movie Database
  2. ^ "In". Soap Opera Weekly. 2007-02-27. p. 5. 
  3. ^ Ted Casablanca (08 February 2007). "Familial Fracas!". The Awful Truth. E! Online. http://au.eonline.com/uberblog/b18276_Familial_Fracas_.html. Retrieved 2009-09-19. "...I thought I was about to be hit for the first time in my career (Arnold Schwarzenegger’s thugs did, indeed, shove me up against a heat lamp at a party once when they didn’t like my questions to the Schmuckanator, but that was just getting pushed, very hard)." 
  4. ^ Casablanca, Ted (28 April 2008). "Psst List!". The Awful Truth. E! Online. http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b4876_Psst_List_.html. Retrieved 19 September 2009. "I’m getting married in less than a week, [...] woo-friggin’-hoo!" 
  5. ^ Casablanca, Ted (16 September 2009). "Morning Piss: Burning and Just Plain Sad". The Awful Truth. E! Online. http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/the_awful_truth/b144321_morning_piss_burning_just_plain_sad.html. Retrieved 16 September 2009. 

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