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Previous E! Information reporter Steve Kmetko disappeared from the highlight following he was fired from the show in 2002 — but what transpired to the previous news anchor?
“I was asked to leave Hollywood 20 decades back. Let us just say it wasn’t my preference,” Kmetko, 71, shared on a new episode of his “Still In this article Hollywood” podcast. “To say that my lifestyle has been a battle right after leaving the crimson carpets and anchor chair would be overstating factors.”
In 2002, Kmetko was a host as E!, and it was time for a agreement negotiation.
“At the time, I told every person I had the ideal job there was I truly cherished that task,” he recalled. “I set on [my website], ‘To the viewers out there, if you like my do the job and want to see me continue, I’d appreciate you creating to management and saying, ‘We like Steve.’”
Kmetko claimed that “management didn’t like that” and he was confronted about wherever that message was typed. He explained it was not shared from a perform laptop or computer — one thing he could not recall at the time. When it was later on uncovered that Kmetko had shared the concept from a laptop at perform, they stated he was “in violation of something” — later on unveiled to be “intellectual property.”
Management claimed they could not have “a newsman” who would lie. “One way or another I felt they had been looking to get rid of me, Kmetko ongoing, recalling that his manager was “asking for $1 million a year” on his behalf.
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Kmetko was employed as the E! Information anchor in 1994, cohosting the show until finally his firing. Right after parting methods with the community, Kmetko attempted to get get the job done at other retailers but was shut down.
“I could never have an understanding of why I could not do the same career someplace else, but perhaps that was just an excuse I was staying provided,” he claimed. “Hollywood is prosperous with excuses.”
Right after Kmetko was advised he passed his “sell-by day,” the anchor moved again to his indigenous Chicago where by he labored at an Apple Retail outlet and started “self-medicating” with medicines and alcoholic beverages. (Kmetko is at this time sober.)
“To this working day, I leave my Tv set on all night very long because if I wake up in the center of the evening and there’s no audio, my head starts heading,” he admitted, prior to discussing what it was like to endure from a stroke in new many years.
Kmetko mentioned a health practitioner instructed him that he’s “lucky” to be alive and overall, the anchor is satisfied to be back again in Hollywood. “I’m happy to be listed here,” he reported.
