This may have been the worst year in memory, but there was one bright spot at the tail end of 2020: Connie Chung’s long-overdue return to public life. In this interview for The Originals podcast, Chung dumps out a Gatorade cooler full of tea about her news colleagues Dan Rather, Barbara Walters, and Diane Sawyer, not to mention “insufferable” interviewee Donald Trump, her grumpy scene partner in The Undoing, and onetime Late Night flirt-mate David Letterman.
While these revelations may have spawned international headlines when the episode first dropped on December 17, here, exclusively, bask in a whole new set of Chung’s confessions: how the 74-year-old network news legend felt about frequent Today show cohost Bryant Gumbel, what to expect when sampling her eponymous weed strain, as well as tales from her sexy L.A. days, before her 1984 marriage to Maury Povich, when she was staying busy coanchoring KNXT (now KCBS) news and getting busy with at least one A-list movie star.
A few years ago Matthew McConaughey had a kind of McConaissance. I think we’re now in the midst of your Connie—ssance. You disappeared for years and then all of a sudden you’re inescapable.
Yes, it’s true. I’ve been underground for a long, long time. So, I took a peek out of my bunker and then I jumped out and I did all sorts of things that emerged, coincidentally, at the same time. But…
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This may have been the worst year in memory, but there was one bright spot at the tail end of 2020: Connie Chung’s long-overdue return to public life. In this interview for The Originals podcast, Chung dumps out a Gatorade cooler full of tea about her news colleagues Dan Rather, Barbara Walters, and Diane Sawyer, not to mention “insufferable” interviewee Donald Trump, her grumpy scene partner in The Undoing, and onetime Late Night flirt-mate David Letterman.
While these revelations may have spawned international headlines when the episode first dropped on December 17, here, exclusively, bask in a whole new set of Chung’s confessions: how the 74-year-old network news legend felt about frequent Today show cohost Bryant Gumbel, what to expect when sampling her eponymous weed strain, as well as tales from her sexy L.A. days, before her 1984 marriage to Maury Povich, when she was staying busy coanchoring KNXT (now KCBS) news and getting busy with at least one A-list movie star.
A few years ago Matthew McConaughey had a kind of McConaissance. I think we’re now in the midst of your Connie—ssance. You disappeared for years and then all of a sudden you’re inescapable.
Yes, it’s true. I’ve been underground for a long, long time. So, I took a peek out of my bunker and then I jumped out and I did all sorts of things that emerged, coincidentally, at the same time. But…
