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the insider was good in the beginning


This show was Great in the beginning, it was Before The Anorexic Twins and Pat O'Brien Going to Rehab , so can someone please tell me what happened? why did they bring cojo and this old lady (kathy maybe???) cojo and his stupid special effects and his fashion *beep* i hate him he *beep* up the show and what is the insider HD? nothing changed in the quality and then it became The Insider & ET?
what the F--.U--Cc._K. Happened?
is it a new director? producer? someone bought the insider and *beep* it up?
it was so amazing when it was only Lara Spencer, Pat O'Brien & Victoria Recaneo
i miss them they made it really FUN to watch
*beep* ET and *beep* cojo

Cojo is a disgrace to men he does not deserve to be called a man so *beep* him

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Let's Put a Smile on that FACE!

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"Cojo is a disgrace to men he does not deserve to be called a man so *beep* him"

I don't think he wants to be called a man.

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Pat O'Brien has some pretty good insight of what happened in his autobiography "I'll Be Back Right After This: My Memoir":
https://books.google.com/books?id=FjxPBAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=I%27ll+Be+Back+Right+After+This:+My+Memoir+Linda+Bell+Blue&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwicmKLsnp34AhV1mGoFHRtOBREQ6AF6BAgIEAI#v=onepage&q=I'll%20Be%20Back%20Right%20After%20This%3A%20My%20Memoir%20Linda%20Bell%20Blue&f=false

Go down to page #296. Basically, it all boiled down to the executive producer, Linda Bell Blue, who also destroyed Entertainment Tonight by taking it into a more trashy, sleazy, sensationalistic, tabloid direction from 1995-2014. The Insider, for all intent and purposes, became an "ambulance chasing freak show" instead of what Pat O'Brien described, as being an honest look behind the scenes in Hollywood.

https://people.com/tv/pat-obrien-recovery-taught-me-to-be-honest-about-my-past/

Executive producer Linda Bell Blue “was the female Jekyll and Hyde she had her company-purchased Christian Louboutin shoes squarely on my neck,” he writes, and the show became “a video carnival, highlighting 75 lb. women and 1,000 lb. men … I needed a drink and a shower every night when I got home. Meantime, it paid well and the clothes were free.”

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