Leeza Gibbons

Leeza Kim Gibbons (born March 26, 1957) is an American journalist, TV & radio personality and author best known for hosting her own TV talk show and she also hosted her own radio show called Hollywood Confidential. She had also appeared in numerous movies & TV shows including Last Action Hero and Cybil.

Career
Leeza first TV job was co-hosting PM Magazine in Beaumont, Texas in 1979. Then six years later she got a job as host/correspondent on the venerable entertainment news show, Entertainment Tonight. Then in 1993, Gibbons was commissioned her own daytime TV talk show called Leeza. At first it was called John & Leeza from Hollywood, with her Entertainment Tonight colleague John Tesh as her co-host. John left the show seven months later and Leeza hosted solo ever since. Leeza ran from 1993-2000. After the cancellation of her talk show, she spent three years hosting a rival entertainment news show Extra, replacing previous host Maureen O'Boyle of A Current Affair. More TV hosting jobs followed as years went on, including her brief stint as host of Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, temporarily replacing Meredith Vieira. In 2007, Leeza was chosen as one of the celebrity participants on Dancing with the Stars, partnered with Tony Dovolani; she was the third star to be eliminated. Shandi Finnessey also participated and was eliminated that season. The winners of that season were Apolo Anton Ohno & Julianne Hough.

While doing her talk show, Leeza was nominated 10 times for an Emmy award but never won. But last year in 2013, her losing streak finally came to an end when she finally won a well-deserved Emmy award for her work on the PBS Lifestyle/Travel program My Generation.

Personal Life
Leeza is married four times and produced four children (three boys & one girl) within those marriages. Her current husband is to Steven Fenton.

Shows Hosted
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire

Test the Nation

Shows Appeared
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?

Hollywood Squares (1998-2004 version)

Pyramid (2002 version)

Dancing with the Stars