One thing is for sure: If all this was happening to somebody other than David Letterman, you couldn’t see a bigger grin on the face of David Letterman.
- Did you think it was weird that Letterman waited until Monday night to “apologize” to his wife and mother of his child? Well, you’re not the only one:
David Letterman’s surprise announcement last Thursday that he had engaged in affairs with female staffers earned him high ratings and laughs from his audience members, but one woman who was not laughing was the “Late Show” host’s wife, Regina Lasko.
It was Lasko who demanded Letterman’s second public apology on Monday…
A source close to Lasko, 48, told FOXNews.com that the Monday apology “wasn’t something Dave wanted to do at all.”
“He wanted the whole thing to blow over,” said the source. “But Regina told him he better make an apology to let everyone know how sorry he was for how much he hurt and humiliated her.”
- Allegedly, she told him he could make a few jokes about it, as long as they weren’t at her expense. But now she feels like he went too far with it and turned the whole thing into a joke. (I don’t know much about New York’s divorce laws. But the woman gets half, right? Or more?)
- Worldwide Pants says Letterman’s backup girlfriend Stephanie Birkitt, who was born when he was 28 years old, is on “paid leave of absence.” TMZ says they know better:
But TMZ just spoke with someone associated with security at Letterman who just told us, “Security got a verbal order that she is ‘banned’ from the property for the time being.”
- If Letterman really wants this to go away, the one who needs to be banned from the studio is Letterman.
- Ol’ Dave isn’t subject to CBS’s rules about supervisor/subordinate relationships because he doesn’t work for them, but rather for Worldwide Pants. Who’s in charge of Worldwide Pants? Guess who! In other words, he’s David Letterman and he can do whatever he wants.
- In 2004, the Fort Worth Star Telegram interviewed Birkitt. The headline? “Letterman Aide Is Dave’s Main Tease.”
- Blackmailer Robert Halderman wasn’t in it for the money, according to, um, “sources.” He just hates Letterman for banning him from Late Show parties and fooling around with his girlfriend. Although I’m sure the $2 million would’ve been nice too, doncha think?
- BTW: If what Halderman says is true, and he cooked up the extortion plot after catching Letterman and Birkitt together last August, does that mean we don’t have to listen to “At least Letterman wasn’t married!” anymore? Although Letterman claims his hanky-panky is “in the past,” and technically, 5-6 weeks ago is the past.
- David Letterman: Victim? Hardly. Newsday counts “the ways Letterman could have avoided this fiasco without dragging in the cops.”
- Bernie Quigley at The Hill says: ”The truth is that Sarah Palin vividly represents to Letterman something that he has clearly not found: responsible, child-bearing adulthood.”
- The National Organization for Women puts its full weight behind a wishy-washy statement of mild disapproval.
- And finally, Letterman’s former head writer and girlfriend Merrill Markoe speaks:
Okay. Here it is. My big comment on Mr. Letterman. It is this: As you can imagine this is a very emotional moment for me because Dave promised me many times that I was the only woman he would ever cheat on.
- Ouch. That one’ll raise a welt. Will it heal?
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I hope he ends up losing his show. He based his “comic laughs” for many years off of other people’s pain and suffering. Karma is a bitch, ain’t it Dave?
To hell with Letterman. Give Merrill a talk show!
He won’t lose his job. He’s made the successful transition from late-night comedian to reality TV star.
I just gotta say that I gotta love any woman who can get her man to apologize on national television.
Oh Bunnykins? Dearest love of my life? About the pavers which you promised to level several months before I flipped a one-eighty whilst carrying a bag of eggs, assorted muffins, and 8 blueberry yogurts? CBS studios expects you to report tomorrow morning at nine sharp, wearing your best humilitude.
John Gruber, a highly-trafficked blogger, regularly nominates a ‘Jackass of the Week’ (http://daringfireball.net/search?q=Jackass). David Letterman is ‘Gruber’s idol’. (http://daringfireball.net/linked/2005/01/26/carson). (He’s on ‘the short list’ of idols, even – isn’t that precious?) Strangely, Letterman somehow hasn’t made the ‘Jackass’ cut – or even been mentioned on Gruber’s blog lately. Isn’t that odd? Why not drop Mr. Gruber a friendly note and point out that either Letterman, or Gruber himself, really should be so honored?
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I doubt he’ll lose it to. Hell since this “scandal” hit his ratings have been through the roof, no doubt from people watching to see what he’ll say about it.
I used to love Dave when I was younger, but he lost his appeal as I got older… I’m all about Craig Ferguson now…
Letterman won’t lose his job any more than Whoopi will lose hers for the “it wasn’t rape-rape” comment.
Merrill rules. It’s no coincidence that the show became markedly less funny after she left.
I know that this is neither here nor there, but that photo of Letterman makes him look like Al Franken’s pervy uncle, which embiggens the wiggens more than I can describe. I’m off to take one of those “Silkwood” wire-brush showers now.
this behavious comes from the top. Les Moonves didn’t just cheat on his wife with a younger woman who worked for him, he paid for her nose job, made her the host of Big Brother, married her and got her pregnant!
Eve is right. Merril Markoe was a very funny writer.
Enquirer says Letterman is getting a divorce.
His annual income $45M
http://www.nationalenquirer.com/david_letterman_300_million_dollar_ddivorce_stephanie_birkitt_regina_haldeman_/celebrity/67459