GIBBONS Leeza
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GIBBONS Leeza

GIBBONS
Leeza

American talk show host

Date of Birth: 26 March 1957
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Age: 67 years old

Zodiac sign: Aries

Profession: Host

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Biography

Leeza Kim Gibbons is an American talk show host. She is best known as a correspondent and co-host for Entertainment Tonight (1984–2000) as well as for having her own syndicated daytime talk show, Leeza (1993–2000). In 2013, her book Take 2 became a New York Times bestseller and she won the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Host in a Lifestyle or Travel program for the PBS show, My Generation. On February 16, 2015, Gibbons was named the winner of Celebrity Apprentice; while on the show she raised $714,000 for her charity Leeza's Care Connection.

Career

Leeza Gibbons's television career started at WSPA-TV in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Next she was the co host of PM Magazine for KFDM-TV in Beaumont, Texas, and then moved to sister station WFAA-TV in Dallas. The new position represented a major career step and came with media attention.

In 1983 Gibbons joined WCBS-TV in New York City, where she became a host on Two on the Town, a program modeled after PM Magazine. Her co-host was Robb Weller. The following year both of them joined Entertainment Tonight, with Gibbons as a reporter and co-anchor of the program's weekend edition.

In the early to mid-1990s, Gibbons partnered with Guthy-Renker becoming a trailblazer in the world of direct response. She was the first television star on a daily show to be featured in an infomercial as she starred in back-to-back blockbusters (Personal Power 2 and Get the Edge) with a young Tony Robbins.

Leeza was her own NBC/syndicated talk show; it ran from June 1993 to September 2000. The show originated as John & Leeza from Hollywood, with former Entertainment Tonight co-host John Tesh. Tesh was dropped from the show after seven months, and Gibbons was the host for the remainder of the series.

From 2001 to 2003, Gibbons was the host and managing editor of the television show Extra. Beginning in 2011, she was the host of the PBS talk show My Generation (2011–2014) and co-host and executive producer of the syndicated news magazine show America Now (2011–2015).

In the 1990s, Gibbons hosted the radio show Blockbuster Top 25 Countdown with Leeza Gibbons. She counted down the hits in Adult Contemporary and Hot Adult Contemporary formats, and presented entertainment news and pre-recorded interviews. When Blockbuster Video stopped sponsoring the program in 1999, the show's name was changed to Leeza Gibbons' Top 25 Countdown. In January 2001, the countdown was dropped and the show was renamed Leeza Gibbons' Hollywood Confidential; the show continued until 2013.

In 1998, Gibbons received the Congressional Horizon Award (1998) for her work on children's issues.

In early 2000s, Gibbons launched her mineral makeup line, Sheer Cover Studio, with Guthy-Renker. Sheer Cover continues to be sold around the world.

In 2005, Gibbons received the Public Leadership in Neurology Award from the American Academy of Neurology for raising awareness about Alzheimer's disease.

On November 14, 2007, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced the appointment of Gibbons to the board that oversees California's stem cell research agency, filling a slot designated for a patient advocate for Alzheimer's. Her nonprofit group, Leeza's Place, is aimed at caregivers for persons with memory disorders. Her efforts to raise attention for memory disorders grew out of her own family's experience with her mother, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and died in May 2008.

Gibbons replaced Meredith Vieira for a week of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire shows on June 23–27, 2008.

In May 2009 Gibbons' new book, Take Your Oxygen First: Protecting Your Health and Happiness While Caring for a Loved One with Memory Loss, tells the story of Leeza's family's personal struggle with Alzheimer's disease after her mother's diagnosis.

In 2013, Gibbons won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lifestyle/Travel Host for the PBS series My Generation. In 2015, she won the NBC reality game-show series Celebrity Apprentice.

She began co-hosting the Rose Parade on January 2, 2017. In 2015, Gibbons received the Icon award from the Electronic Retailing Association, where it was announced that Gibbons had crossed the $1 billion mark in sales. Her partnership with Guthy-Renker is the longest studio/talent relationship in infomercial history.

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