Carson Daly and Ryan Seacrest are competeing to co host the New Year with Dick Clark. They say they really aren't competeing, but if both are anything like host Ben Mulroney(see my blog for "I got snubbed by Mulroney?") then you know they are FEIRCE. This is New Year's not some teenage driven program. ladies sharpen your claws...it's about to get ugly.
Oh wait a second they just announced that Yes Searcest will be co hosting. Bitch got bite.
Listen to what Carson had to say:
"Dick Clark is a huge inspiration for the huge success he's achieved," Daly told the Los Angeles Times in a recent interview. "But that's where I stop. The world is changing. I'm young; I have my own thoughts as a producer. I'm not trying to keep his tradition. I'm trying to do my own."
Both Daly and Seacrest will return Sunday night as competitors in their second New Year's Eve as Clark, 77, continues to recover from a 2004 stroke.
Clark, a former host of American Bandstand, has reported on the madness in New York's Times Square for viewers nearly every year since 1972. Last year Seacrest, who hosts the popular television show American Idol, took over much of the broadcast for Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, a three-and-a-half hour show broadcast on ABC. He returns in that role again this year.
Daly will host NBC's "New Year's Eve With Carson Daly," which starts at 11:30 p.m.
Last year's "Rockin' Eve" was Clark's first national TV appearance since his stroke. He plans to return for at least a small role again this year.
"He and I have a great relationship. Whatever he wants to do, whether he wants to do more or less than last year, I'll do it," Seacrest said.
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