About Leeza Gibbons
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 The Celebrity Apprentice; while on the show she raised $714,000 for her charity Leeza's Care Connection. She was the first television star on a daily show to be featured in an infomercial, as she starred in Personal Power 2 and Get the Edge with a young Tony Robbins. In May 2009 Gibbons' new book, Take Your Oxygen First: Protecting Your Health and Happiness While Caring for a Loved One with Memory Loss, told the story of Leeza's family's personal struggle with Alzheimer's disease after her mother's diagnosis. 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.
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