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ICYMI: Mika B. is a Free Woman!
Don't everyone start asking for her number all at once, now!
If she ends up marrying her partner on-the-air, I think I might throw up a bit. That show became too uncomfortable to watch, even in passing!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2016/06/30/mika-brezezinski-quietly-divorces-husband-of-23-years/?tid=hybrid_experimentrandom_1_na
Quiet. Hush-hush. Low-key. Private. These are just some the adjectives that a celebrity hopes would share a headline news of a high-profile divorce.
Somehow, Mika Brzezinski, the instantly recognizable co-host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” managed to pull that off, sliding her split from broadcast journalist Jim Hoffer under the radar.
That’s a spectacular feat in today’s tabloid culture: Ending a marriage after 23 years without TMZ finding out until after the dust and the disagreements have settled.
“Mika’s divorce was finalized in the past year. She’s really grateful that it was done amicably and in private,” said an MSNBC rep in a statement to Page Six, which broke the news Wednesday. “This has, of course, been a painful time for her family. So right now she is focused on her two teenage daughters, and on continuing to heal.”.....
Unrelated...but weird: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2016/06/01/morning-joe-office-now-features-a-giant-mural-of-joe-scarborough-and-mika-brzezinski-on-a-beach/?tid=a_inl
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Ever sense your boss’s presence even when you know he’s out grabbing lunch? That might be how the folks who toil in the New York headquarters of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” feel, now that their office decor includes a giant mural of the show’s hosts, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski.
One wall of the morning talkathon’s headquarters is entirely covered by an image depicting the hosts, barefoot and casually dressed, strolling along a beach dune (see the pic, provided by a tipster). In the brightly-hued scene, Scarborough — his pants rolled up, shirt jauntily unbuttoned at the neck — leads the way across the sand, while a sundress-wearing Brzezinski follows him.
It’s hardly your typical corporate cube-farm art — more like a family vacation scene, or a still from the latest pharmaceutical ad.
The mural is a blown-up version of a painting by Peter Max, the renowned artist whose psychedelic portraits of icons from the Beatles to Marilyn Monroe have graced magazine and album covers. Scarborough and Brzezinski did a segment on Max in 2014, and the studio tour concluded with the painter unveiling two artworks featuring Scarborough and Brzezinski, one of them on a beach, and the other a more formal, seated portrait. (Scarborough later wrote that they were based on photos taken in Nantucket by an in-house lensman.)
They clearly liked the paintings — he uses the seashore image as the header for his blog, and she adopted the other as her Twitter avatar. But even before it was enlarged and stuck up on the office wall, the sunset-on-the-sand image attracted some derision, with the Daily Caller snarking about the “romantic vibe” between the co-hosts.
One wall of the morning talkathon’s headquarters is entirely covered by an image depicting the hosts, barefoot and casually dressed, strolling along a beach dune (see the pic, provided by a tipster). In the brightly-hued scene, Scarborough — his pants rolled up, shirt jauntily unbuttoned at the neck — leads the way across the sand, while a sundress-wearing Brzezinski follows him.
It’s hardly your typical corporate cube-farm art — more like a family vacation scene, or a still from the latest pharmaceutical ad.
The mural is a blown-up version of a painting by Peter Max, the renowned artist whose psychedelic portraits of icons from the Beatles to Marilyn Monroe have graced magazine and album covers. Scarborough and Brzezinski did a segment on Max in 2014, and the studio tour concluded with the painter unveiling two artworks featuring Scarborough and Brzezinski, one of them on a beach, and the other a more formal, seated portrait. (Scarborough later wrote that they were based on photos taken in Nantucket by an in-house lensman.)
They clearly liked the paintings — he uses the seashore image as the header for his blog, and she adopted the other as her Twitter avatar. But even before it was enlarged and stuck up on the office wall, the sunset-on-the-sand image attracted some derision, with the Daily Caller snarking about the “romantic vibe” between the co-hosts.
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