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Monday, July 7, 2008
Christine Haas leaving KVUE for Houston’s KHOU
Christine Haas, anchor of top-rated KVUE’s evening news, is leaving the station in August to anchor the weekday morning news at KHOU in Houston. Both stations are owned by Belo Corp.
Rumors have been swirling for months about Haas, with speculation that she would be leaving Austin for a Top 10 market soon. When a morning anchor job opened up at WFAA in Dallas, Haas looked like a likely suspect, but that didn’t happen.
Now it turns out Haas is heading south instead of north.
“I am thrilled with the opportunity and so excited to make this move forward in my career, but it was a very, very difficult decision,” Haas said Monday night. “I am leaving behind so many friends, and Austin had truly become my home.”
Haas came to Austin from Minneapolis in 2003, replacing Judy Maggio after Maggio jumped from KVUE to KEYE.
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“The Bachelorette” picks one tonight … maybe
Tonight’s the night when DeAnna picks her lifetime mate … or not.
“The Bachelorette” has its big two-hour finale tonight at 7 on ABC. DeAnna Pappas, the 26-year-old real estate agent who’s been interviewing potential hubbies since May, plans to take her two finalists to Georgia to meet her family.
This is a standard event in these dating/courting shows, providing contestants ample time to make fools of themselves as they try to impress the parental units. Tonight’s schtick should be no exception.
After the Georgia trek, DeAnna will go on a final date with each of her remaining suitors and then accept or reject a proposal. You may recall that DeAnna has ample experience with televised rejection, having been selected and then NOT proposed to by Austin’s own Brad Womack on last season’s “The Bachelor.”
Will she want revenge now? Or will she want the big diamond and accompanying publicity that would go with a made-for-TV wedding?
Those of you who love this sort of semi-reality will be all a-twitter when the dramaq unfolds. I’m busy with a dirty patio — and just about anything else I can conjure up to do that does NOT involve faux romance.
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