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CBS Eye sheds no tears over Shelley Ross
Posted on March 6, 2008 4:09 PM
Early Show producer Shelley Ross had one of those epic firings, it sounds like the liquor will be flowing in Manhattan once her former reports have a chance to really cut loose and celebrate.
Radar called Shelley the prototypical mean girl who burned every single bridge she could. Boss from Hell? I think you need to come up with someplace worse. Check out this stuff...
Ross went way over budget, seemingly at whim. Particularly telling: Ross allegedly spent a ton of money to make weatherman/feature reporter Dave Price miserable, sending him all over the country on terrible assignments.The best part? Sinister Shelley apparently didn't get along well with CBS president Les Moonves, who just happens to be the husband of Early Show anchor Julie Chen. That made the wife an unhappy camper.
Her staff was demoralized. Twenty-one people left during her tenure. In fact, we're told that so many people wanted to leave that they couldn't even quit, because they couldn't get in to tell Ross they wanted to go and she refused to answer her e-mails.
When you're running the number three rated morning program, you don't get to be a tyrant. If Early Show was kicking the snot out of the competition, Les would have hired her a personal baby smoothie maker if she wanted one.