Why the information colleagues by Julie Chen Moonves wanted her
Andy Rooney in particular called her publicly.
Today, Julie Chen Moonves Hosted the Reality competition program Big brother for 23 years. But, in 2000, she was certain that she was going to be dismissed after the first season. Not only that, but Chen Moonves thought that she was going to be withdrawn from her work by her husband, then CBS The moonves to a prestigious event.
In an interview Weekly entertainment mark 25 seasons of Big brother , Chen Moonves recalled the first Rocky days of the reality TV show and his feelings of insecurity of employment, in particular because her colleagues from CBS News did not think that she was associated with the other program. At the time when she was chosen to host Big brother , Chen Moonves was a news reader on The first show .
Read the rest to find out who publicly called Chen Moonves for "Blur [Ring] the lines between news and entertainment" and why she never thought Big brother would last as long as he did.
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Viewers "hated" the show in the first season, said Chen Moonves.
The first season of Big brother had a different format from all his future seasons. On the one hand, viewers voted the candidates rather than candidates voting against each other. It was also broadcast up to six nights per week with the first season made up of 70 episodes. (Recent seasons had between 35 and 40 episodes.)
Chen Moonves recalled Weekly entertainment that the show received "the worst criticism from all angles of season 1". She also explained: "TV reviews hated the concept of the show. They hated lighting. They hated IKEA apparently furniture. They hated the house, they hated everything."
This impacted it personally, as She has already said Yahoo!. "I remember reading a review after examination, after a negative criticism after - and they were all terrible ... I remember having the impression of being like a punch in the intestine," said Chen Moonves .
Her colleagues from CBS News wanted her to be dismissed, she said.
Chen Moonves only worked for CBS for five months when she was invited to host Big brother . And the negative criticisms of the show made her fear that she was completely dismissed from the network and was again to seek a job in local news.
"External, people hated me. Internal criticism - the people of CBS News - took me from the division of news," she said. She said that 60 minutes Streamer Andy Rooney In particular, I wanted her not news if she hosted Big brother.
"I thought I was going to lose my job by doing news in the morning, because Andy Rooney spoke publicly against me when I hosted Big brother ," she said EW . "He said to himself:" How will she dare to blur the boundaries between news and entertainment? It should immediately be dismissed from the news division and sent to the west coast and has permanently put the entertainment division if that is what it wants to do. "I said to myself:" Oh my God, Andy Rooney will make me fire! ""
Chen Moonves too Talked down criticism from Rooney During an interview of 2013 with Larry King . She said that she had realized that there was "no validity" to what Rooney said after discovering that other news announcements had worked on television games. "But" she added, "what really stung is that he was in the same network and saying it about someone you are supposed to protect."
She thought Bruyer Gumbel also wanted her to disappear.
Chen Moonves also believed that The first show anchor Bryant Gumbel wanted her to be dismissed when she returned to the show of news after Big brother is the first season.
"I return:" Hello, Bryant Gumbel. Can I offer you your coffee? "I am the news reader. I am like the fourth banana," she explained to EW . "I am the fourth person on the call sheet and my tail is between my legs. And Bryant loves Survivor , but he never said anything about Big brother . I said to myself, "Great. he is I will now be fired. He didn't want me either in his show! '" AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
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She thought that Moonves invited her to fire her.
Chen Moonves said EW That when Moonves asked her to attend an event with him, she thought he was planning to let her go. His suspicions were raised more because the event was going to be assisted by the former president of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev . "I said to myself:" Oh my God, the boss of the boss "takes me in a public place to shoot me!"
She continued: "I really thought that! I remember called my best friend. I said to myself:" This is how it works, so it's a softer blow? I can't stage in front of Gorbachev. "Later, she directly asked Moonves if he was going to fire her." [H] e was like: "What? The leaders do not remove their talent to dismiss them," she recalls.
Four years later, Chen Moonves got married The executive now now , who left the network after being accused of sexual harassment and assault by several women.
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Big brother Make a return.
Although the first season is poorly received, Big brother Back for a second season - with some major changes. More particularly - and important for the game - the candidates voted with each other outside the house. The show began to be broadcast three times a week, reducing half the total number of episodes per season. New producers have been brought. They kept Chen Moonves in place, however, and she continues to host the show today.
"[Producers] Arnold [Shapiro] And Allison [Grodner] overturned the show upside down and did what it is today, "said Chen Moonves EW . "If it was not for Arnold and Allison, I honestly do not think that we would be here to talk about the 25th season."
