Bryant Gumbel reveals lung-cancer condition

Bryant Gumbel reveals lung-cancer condition

NEW YORK — Bryant Gumbel says he’s recovering from lung- cancer surgery and treatment.

The former “Today” show anchor says a malignant tumor and part of his lung were removed two months ago. He revealed his condition to Kelly Ripa while he was subbing for co-host Regis Philbin on “Live With Regis and Kelly” on Tuesday.

Gumbel says he had preferred to keep his condition private and only told Ripa backstage to explain why he couldn’t dance with her during a segment on the show.

The 61-year-old Gumbel says he’s meeting with his surgeon and oncologist next week and hopes to be cleared to play golf soon.

He is the host of HBO’s “Real Sports.”

Cuomo likely to move to ‘20/20’ as co-host

NEW YORK — ABC News’ Chris Cuomo is likely to move to the nighttime newsmagazine “20/20” as its co-host.

A network executive who spoke on condition of anonymity because the executive was not authorized to talk about hiring said Tuesday that Cuomo is in active negotiations for the job after apparently being passed over for “Good Morning America” co-host.

Cuomo would co-anchor with Elizabeth Vargas and take on an expanded reporting role at the network.

The executive said JuJu Chang has been offered Cuomo’s current job as newsreader at “Good Morning America.”

The personnel changes mean it’s likely that George Stephanopoulos will be announced as Diane Sawyer’s successor on “Good Morning America” within days.

Topless photo of Polanski nets more than $11,000

NEW YORK — A topless photo of filmmaker Roman Polanski and his wife, Sharon Tate, taken just months before her murder has sold at a New York City auction for just over $11,000.

The black and white portrait by British photographer David Bailey shows the couple embracing.

Christie’s says it was sold Monday to an unidentified private buyer. The presale estimate was $8,000 to $12,000.

The 76-year-old Oscar-winning director is under house arrest in Switzerland. The United States wants him to face sentencing for having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977. He fled the U.S. before being sentenced.

Tate was killed in 1969 by followers of Charles Manson.

S.C. first lady would not have stood by governor

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Even if her straying husband had asked her to, South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford says she wouldn’t have stood with Gov. Mark Sanford when he faced cameras to tell the world about his affair with an Argentine woman. Jenny Sanford told ABC’s Barbara Walters for a special airing Wednesday her husband’s actions have caused consequences but not robbed her of her self esteem. Excerpts of the interview were released Tuesday.

Jenny Sanford said she did not know where her husband was for five days last summer when his disappeared from the state. The governor told his staff he was hiking the Appalachian Trail although he was in Argentina seeing his lover. State lawmakers are considering whether to impeach Sanford for abandoning the state when he took the trip.

When he returned, Sanford, at a tearful news conference, confessed the affair. But Jenny Sanford was not beside him and she told Walters that the governor never asked her to appear. “I wouldn’t have. If he had asked me, I would have said no,” she said.

Today’s birthdays

Actor Kirk Douglas is 93. Actor Dick Van Patten (“Eight Is Enough”) is 81. Actor-writer Buck Henry is 79. Actress Judi Dench is 75. Actor Beau Bridges is 68. Actor Michael Nouri is 64. Actor Michael Dorn (“Star Trek: The Next Generation”) is 57. Actor John Malkovich is 56. Singer Donny Osmond is 52. Actress Felicity Huffman (“Desperate Housewives,” “Sports Night”) is 47. Singer-guitarist Jakob Dylan of The Wallflowers is 40. American Idol” judge Kara DioGuardi is 39. Drummer Tre Cool of Green Day is 37.