After an 11-year stint at the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, the actors union’s top PR executive, National Director of Communication Christopher de Haan, is leaving to join entertainment PR firm 42West an executive in the Strategic Communications division. There, de Haan is expected to still work with AFTRA, which has been a client of 42West since 2007. De Haan’s last day will be Dec. 16, and AFTRA will likely name his successor next month. The move comes as the two actors unions, SAG and AFTRA, continue merger talks. De Haan first joined AFTRA in early 2001 as National Assistant in the Entertainment, Commercials, Non-Broadcast/Industrial, and Interactive Media departments. He later served as National Manager of Communications and was upped to National Director in 2008.
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Author, actress and lesbian wife Portia de Rossi is turning a book tour into a battleground by refusing to be interviewed by men.
On Tuesday morning, de Rossi appeared on “Sunrise,” one of Australia’s most popular morning news shows, to talk about her wife, Ellen DeGeneres, and her new book, “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain.”
On that show, de Rossi talked with the female hosts. Later on, producers confirmed that’s because she refuses to speak to men. The same issue came up with a radio show.
“The word used yesterday to us was ‘preference’ – it was her preference to speak to a woman,” Austereo radio spokesperson Chelsea Kelly told the Sydney Morning Herald.
“The reason we were given for that was because her book and the context of her book is about women’s issues and the pressures on women to be thin and it was just a better fit if the interviewer was a woman,” Kelly continued.
Austereo Radio was fine with the request, but David Koch, the host of “Sunrise,” was not.
“Portia de Rossi would only be interviewed by a woman. Am I weird in thinking that’s strange. Be outrage if a man made that a condition,” Koch wrote on Twitter. “Portia has campaigned, quite rightly, for gay rights and equality. Then insists on only being interviewed by women. Hypocritical? U tell me?”
De Rossi is a native of Australia.
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