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Sheilaree

Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 04:00 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I can't belive she is 33, so that means she is3 years younger then me, please she is lying about her age, I think she has to be at least 50 She has been around the news a long time. So she can't be 33

Fan3

Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 04:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
i swear she was a intern in the 80's(just seen on the weekends and fillins as needed) that why I said in my earlier post she 33 like I'm 19. but I must admit I am 19 with 29 years experience.

Spear

Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 04:06 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Are you confusing Julie Chen with Connie Chung? I'd never heard of Julie until BB1.

Bohawkins

Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 04:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Here is an Ebay auction for a pretty amazing Roberto Cavalli shirt. The auction ends in three hours. As I am posting the price is $26, but my guess is it will go for about $75.00. I think this will not get the price it should, because they misappropriately identified the item as a t shirt, which is really a misnomer.

I think it is very cool.

Click here to see the auction

Fan3

Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 04:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
no this was after Connie Chug was the hottest thing and the other news channel was trying to compete with other network, Like when Matt Lower (sp) took over and all of a sudden ABC decided that Charlie was too old and they replaced them with young people (the ratting sunk even worse) I'll get off the soap box now and check on the coffee in the other chat....

Catchme

Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 04:28 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I loved the shirt/blouse/top that Julie wore last night - I told my husband that it was fabulous. I also guessed around $500.00 so I was off by quite a bit. I think she is a little bit heavier this year - and it looks good on her. Her face seems fuller. She's lovely and very poised.

Ophiliasgrandma

Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 04:31 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I found a shirt of his on EBAY with the drawstrings at the wrists like Julie wore last night. In EBAY search I typed in Roberto Cavalli shirt and it was about the 3rd or 4th item. I'm sorry I don't know how to make a link to it.

Sheilaree

Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 04:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I agree Fan3 that is why I think she is older then 33, No I am not confusing with Connie Chung either. I am glad you brought that up.

Blink

Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 05:31 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
First let me say that I think Julie is a very attractive woman who could look good in almost anything...however, the blouse she wore on last nights show, although the print was nice, the dangling strings at the cuffs made it look like a fashion item for a porn star that is into bondage.IMO

Jadarville

Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 07:52 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Blink, I had the same thought about bondage lol
strings dangling like that would drive me crazy.

Cliotheleo

Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 08:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Those weren't string, where I come from when they're that long they're STRANGS!!!!

And those were some STRANGS!!!! :)

Closetfan

Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 08:31 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Wow! At first...I was excited to see this thread, because I really noticed the shirt too. It bugged me at first cuz of the dangly strings at the wrists...not practical...but for what she had to do in it last night on BB4...appropriate.

Then the thread took a sad turn. I think Julie Chen is GORGEOUS, incredibly thin (too thin, really!) and not an ounce heavier than before (?? Is it your monitor?), very professional and probably cringing most of the time when she has to repeat this BB crap [the HGs jobs, locations, etc.] so often. I like her and I think this show is good publicity for her and probably a rough job to do. Can you imagine having a serious conversation, live, with any of these HGs? Give me a break. Yes...I'm a somewhat obsessed voyeur fan...but I'd never want to be a contestant...my real life is too much better than this...

Anyway...props to Julie!!! The shirt was cool and you are too! Even though I hear you wanted a Jun/Ali final and I can't stand Ali, so I'm disappointed. Sigh. :)

Chelle

Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 08:50 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I would love to go on BB but like you closetfan I have too good a life.

And to the one who thinks I accused of being catty. It wasn't the differing fasion. It was that it turned into a Julie bashing.

I have so much respect for her. These things don't come easily.

Fan3

Friday, September 12, 2003 - 02:24 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I don't think anyone was "bashing" Julie we were discuss about her age and taste in clothes.

Sheilaree

Friday, September 12, 2003 - 05:01 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Who buys Julie's clothes does she or CBS if she has to it might make a different change.

Kaili

Friday, September 12, 2003 - 05:48 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I didn't hear any Julie bashing. I can seperate the clothing from the wearer... I adore Julie, always have. I think she's great and I think she usually looks great. But the shirt? Now that, I personally did not like. Has nothing to do with her. Discussing her age and whether she looks 33 or not? Again, has nothing to do with her personally. Wouds it be a problem if someone were to debate her height or the exact shade of her hair color? I doubt that would be seen as "bashing". It's a discussion, plain and simple, and nothing negative has been said about Julie. Just about her shirt.

Crazydog

Friday, September 12, 2003 - 06:56 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I like Julie as well and I often think she gets bashed quite a bit on this forum. But I haven't seen anything like that in this thread. We are just debating whether or not we liked her top and whether or not she is or looks 33 years old.

If I remember correctly, Katie Couric came onto the Today show in the early 90s and was paired with Bryant Gumbel. When Bryant Gumbel left, Matt Lauer came onto the scene. That was around 1996 or 1997.

After Matt Lauer came on, Good Morning America forced Joan Lunden into retirement to try to compete with the bubbly Katie and the hunky Matt (pre-balding and graying shaved head days). They replaced her with a younger looking version of her (Lisa McPhee?) but Charlie Gibson stuck around for a while. Then Charlie retired as well about a year later, 1998 or so, and some geeky looking guy (Kevin Newman?) who used to be a correspondent became co-host.

This was a ratings disaster. It lasted only about a year. The two of them were fired, and Charlie Gibson and Diane Sawyer were brought in as temporary hosts in around 1999. The temporary hosts became permanent.

Bottom line is, if you are remembering Julie Chen as getting her start around the time Matt Lauer started, then you are only talking about 1997 or so. And as far as I know, Julie got her start in around 1999. I remember that when she came onto the first Big Brother was pretty much unknown, other than being known as the person who had just joined the CBS morning show.

Jenhavins

Friday, September 12, 2003 - 08:10 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Per her bio on the CBS Early Show Website:

Chen has hosted Big Brother, CBS’s summer reality series, since its debut three years ago. She was substitute anchor of the CBS Morning News and This Morning, The Early Show’s predecessor, for five months in the summer and early fall of 1999 before the premiere of The Early Show.

Prior to joining CBS News in June 1999, Chen was a reporter and anchor for WCBS-TV, the CBS-owned station in New York (1997-99). She was a reporter for WDTN-TV, Dayton (1995-97). Chen served as a producer for ABC News One, that network’s affiliate news service (1991-95), and as a production assistant in ABC News’ Los Angeles bureau (1990-91).

She was born on Jan. 6, 1970, in New York City. Chen was graduated from the University of Southern California in 1991 with degree in broadcast journalism and English. She lives in New York.

Gabbyone

Friday, September 12, 2003 - 08:13 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I have to say I also loved Julie's blouse. It caught my attention right away and I thought she looked great! I didn't like her much during BB1 but through the years she's grown on me. As for her being 33......she looks much older. IMHO

Beachcomber88

Friday, September 12, 2003 - 10:21 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm not sure where the bashing comment comes from either. I think there's been a lot of bashing about the blouse itself, but certainly it's not bashing towards Julie.

Thanks for the bio, Jenhavins. I'm surpised to see that she was a "producer" essentially right out of college. Makes me wonder what really producers really do if you're able to hold that position without any prior experience.

And I stand by my original statement that Julie is a very old looking 33. And again, especially for being Asian. Erika and Julie are the same age, but for some reason, I thought Julie looked much older when they were sitting on the couch together. Perhaps it's because of the "motherly" image that Julie has with the houseguests.

Madelane

Friday, September 12, 2003 - 10:51 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I don't know how old I think Julie looks, but I have worked in news for a long time and it always strikes me how "adult" the young anchors and reporters look. I think it's the fact that they have to project a certain look, with all the hair spray and pancake makeup and all that. Like, I used to work with Laurie Dhue (now on Fox) when she was a guest booker at CNN. She was always pretty, but she looked more like a regular person before she went on air. Then she had to have a particular haircut, which always looks professional, and all the hairspray and everything. It's not a choice they make, but something they HAVE to do to get on-air. Can you imagine a ponytail and light makeup on your anchors? I've had other friends who suddenly looked ten years older than me when they were trying to get on air. It's a thing. For me, it always feels like I can't relate to these people anymore, but it's a standard that probably isn't going anywhere.

p.s. Anyone remember Lou Waters on CNN? He used, seriously, a can of Aqua Net a week.

Oh yeah also, about producers, I was a "producer" right out of college and there are many levels to producers. Production Assistants can call themselves producers and get away with it, no problem. There are line producers, field producers, associate producers, executive producers, package producers, etc. in news. It kind of distinguishes you from either the technical staff or the talent.

Hummingbird

Saturday, September 13, 2003 - 07:06 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I think Julie Chen is a very cute woman and doesn't look old at all. I can't believe all this chat!

Lorry

Saturday, September 13, 2003 - 07:58 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I've always thought Julie Chen was more than a little attractive. She looks way younger than 33 to my eyes.

I did not like the blouse, but then again I am not a fashion maven, and know little or nothing about fashion. It's a personal choice.

On Julie, the blouse looks great. She always looks great IMO.

I also think her professionalism lends a bit of sophistication to the show itself.

Ginger1218

Saturday, September 13, 2003 - 08:06 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Ok, is there somebody who can post a picture of Julie wearing the blouse? I missed the show the other night and did not get to see the blouse.

Spear

Saturday, September 13, 2003 - 09:03 am EditMoveDeleteIP
How's this?

julie

Chelle

Saturday, September 13, 2003 - 09:11 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Closetfan, I actually would have liked an Ali/Erika final. When it comes to the final three we have I think Ali/Jun is more interesting than having Robert in there. I have never liked him. Jun and Ali might be floaters, but they manipulated their position better than anyone I have seen since Will. Robert just sat and picked his nose.

I went to look at the shirt yesterday. There is actually a dress as well. It is unbelievable. The things at the wrists aren't strings. They are chains with charms on the ends. It is a Cavalli signature.

Meli456

Saturday, September 13, 2003 - 09:13 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks for posting a picture. I SAW the show and I couldn't even remember what the blouse looked like! Either I'm just not into fashion or my memory really is shot...

Rachel

Sunday, September 14, 2003 - 07:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My only gripe about Julie besides wearing non-age appropriate dress.......I wish she would not walk like John Wayne from the settee to the camera. I Keep expecting her to say "Well, howdy pligram!"

Delrok

Monday, September 15, 2003 - 08:52 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I live in Cleveland too, but I wouldn't know the first thing about anchorwoman. Hehe. In fact I live on Bonnieview in Lakewood, oddly enough.

Anyway, Julie's top is something out of one of my "trapped in school and didn't study for test" dreams. It would be on one of the teachers and would drive me nuts... hehe

Kimmykm

Monday, September 15, 2003 - 09:06 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I think julie would look good even wearing a towsack.

Ezgoing

Monday, September 15, 2003 - 09:07 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Folks, Julie's only wearing it to get ahead in her career game so we shouldn't judge her or make any assumptions about her REAL fashion sense when she's not being followed by the cameras. She knows what she must do to survive in that cutthroat field and will wear anything she has to in order to still be there next week. Who can find fault with her being so daring when she's just trying to compete?! It's just television, not her REAL LIFE after all so we have to remind ourselves that whatever she puts on display while we're watching her has nothing to do with what we'd find hanging in her 'real' closet. :)

(and for any of you who may have missed it, that IS a smiley face at the end of my post, in other words, said with humorous intent.)