Leeza Gibbons

Her passion and drive combined with her warmth and wisdom has enabled her to become one of the most respected and recognized professionals in the broadcast industry. Gibbons recently added another dimension to her image as a contestant on season four of the hit ABC show Dancing with the Stars.

It was a need to serve her own family that prompted Gibbons to leave her daily post as managing editor and host of the newsmagazine Extra in order to form the Leeza Gibbons Memory Foundation – her most personal endeavor to date. “I promised my mother I would take her diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease and use it to educate and inspire.”

Gibbons is committed to informing viewers on everything from entertainment news to the trends shaping American culture today. Her hosting duties on Fox’s Test the Nation: The National IQ Test and the pop culture hit, The Simple Life Reunion, reminded viewers of Gibbon’s easy going professionalism in front of the camera, and skill for providing an entertaining environment with captivating interviews.

While she would nationally burst on the scene as an anchor/reporter on Entertainment Tonight, it would not be until she executively produced and hosted her own daytime talk show, Leeza, that audiences would see Gibbons’ determination to get outside of the box. Receiving nominations for both Outstanding Talk Show and Outstanding Talk Show Host every year between 1994 and 2000, Leeza would garner 27 Daytime Emmy Nominations, winning three. It was during the series run that Gibbons was awarded with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

With her never-ending entrepreneurial creativity and a mind for business-building, Gibbons formed Leeza Gibbons Enterprises (LGE) in 1994, to develop the kind of projects that reflect her interests and concerns. This endeavor would have LGE coproducing and developing TV programs with several outlets. Televised projects produced by or in association with LGE and Leeza include: Assignment E! with Leeza Gibbons, and the Emmy-winning Teen Files. It was her desire to mentor young people that led LGE to its recent project, The Michael Essany Show on E!

Another venture close to Gibbons heart is Sheer Cover. With this mineral based makeup system, Gibbons offers women another way to add value and empowerment to their lives. Gibbons’ latest venture, Sheer Inspiration Life Coaching, demonstrates her ongoing efforts to find creative ways to reach her audience and offer life-changing support. Sheer Inspiration is an innovative web business which supplies users with a personal coach via email and/or phone to tackle a variety of challenges ranging from feeling stuck and burned out to dealing with toxic and unfulfilling relationships

To underscore how much “memories matter,” Gibbons created Leeza Gibbons Legacies, a scrapbooking line, which provides a system for preserving memories and encourages women to tell the stories of their lives. In addition, her Leeza Gibbons Scrapbooking software program offers computer assisted scrapbooking taking her passion for crafting to a new level. Her proceeds from all of the scrapbooking products go to the Leeza Gibbons Memory Foundation. Gibbons’ book, Scrapbooking Traditions from Meredith Publishing, features heartwarming, personal stories to encourage others to celebrate memories and create new ones.

Taking her showbiz insight to the radio airwaves, Gibbons hosts the nationally syndicated radio program, “Hollywood Confidential,” which takes an inside look at TV, film, fashion, and trends in Hollywood. The show has been nominated for the Billboard/Airplay Monitor for Network/Syndicated Program of the Year.

From television news journalist and host, to radio personality, producer, and businesswoman, Gibbons has been a part of America’s living rooms for over 20 years. She was recently named the host of Lifetime’s successful primetime magazine, What Should You Do?