Steve was a widely recognized openly gay entertainment reporter and dated Greg Louganis. Once E dropped him, he faded into obscurity. At least, that's how I remember it. Any info? I saw he’s working at a college, but any gossip? How Thomas Roberts? Another one who fell off the radar.
| by Anonymous | reply 63 | March 1, 2024 9:53 PM |
Or Jules Asner?
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | January 10, 2023 2:46 AM |
I thought Steve Kmetko was dreamy and the glasses made him seem like Marilyn Monroe in How to Marry a Millionaire (except she avoided wearing glasses till David Wayne’s millionaire told her he liked her jn them)— like he thought they made him look “smarter.” I still see Thomas Roberts on the news occasionally.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | January 10, 2023 2:50 AM |
[quote]From September 2020 to August 2022, Roberts served as host of The Daily Mail TV.
Kmetko really seems to have dropped off from any public stuff for the past 10 years.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | January 10, 2023 2:54 AM |
R1, I checked IMDB, and she hasn't worked in years. On the other hand, she married Steven Soderberg, so she's living large. Work is for the poor.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | January 10, 2023 3:00 AM |
Steve Kmetko relocated to the Chicago area. He does voiceover work (includes narrating books) and does some lecture work occasionally at his nearby alma mater there (Columbia College).
He's not hard to find (Fraubook, Linkedin).
He put this photo up on FB in September 2022.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | January 10, 2023 3:02 AM |
Whatever happened to the dreamy Steve Bartlestein? I seem to remember he was a methhead.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | January 10, 2023 3:02 AM |
I checked Steve’s LinkedIn, and he worked as a Specialist at Apple for two years. No offense, but that’s a huge step down from entertainment reporter.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | January 10, 2023 3:03 AM |
I was interested more in the gossip/drama/scandals. For example, when he dated Greg Louganis, who dumped whom?
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | January 10, 2023 3:05 AM |
Getting a keeping TV reporter jobs is tough. Often you have to move across the country if you want your career to go forward.
Some decide they want to stay in one city so may have to move from reporter to something else in that town, like professor
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | January 10, 2023 3:06 AM |
What happened to the guy with the gerbil up his ass?
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | January 10, 2023 3:06 AM |
[Quote] Whatever happened to the dreamy Steve Bartlestein? I seem to remember he was a methhead.
Wasn’t he fired because he was high at work?
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | January 10, 2023 3:07 AM |
Kmetko turns 70 in a few months. Still looks good, but wish he kept his hair blond.
Bartelstein still looks good, but not sexy like he was years ago (he's 60 now).
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | January 10, 2023 3:16 AM |
R10, unfortunately, you'll need to be more specific.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | January 10, 2023 3:25 AM |
Thomas Roberts and his husband, Patrick Abner, were still seen together in September 2021 (after nine years), but a follower of Abner's mentioned in the comment section of a January 2022 Instagram post that they divorced. Is this true?
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | January 10, 2023 4:09 AM |
R16, wow, if true, that's sad. I remember reading an NYT’s article saying they met in 2000. Twenty-one years! No 2022 photos together on Instagram, and Roberts calls 2021 the toughest year of his life. It's probably true.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | January 10, 2023 10:46 AM |
That's sad if they divorced. Too bad Roberts' career seems to have stalled. He's a very magnetic TV presence--I would have expected a better outcome
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | January 10, 2023 3:06 PM |
[quote] What happened to the guy with the gerbil up his ass?
It was the news caster from Philly, I think. He did a stint on Entertainment Tonight too.
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | January 10, 2023 3:07 PM |
Forgot about him. What happened to Ted Casablanca and AJ Benza?
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | January 29, 2023 7:34 PM |
Benza has a podcast and I tried to listen but it was right wing.
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | January 29, 2023 7:43 PM |
I used to love Hollywood Scandals or whatever show he had.
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | January 29, 2023 7:44 PM |
R15: His dick is nothing special but his ass is unbelievably sexy.
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | January 29, 2023 7:47 PM |
Mysteries and Scandals was the show
I miss the old E!
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | January 29, 2023 7:54 PM |
Jerry Penacoli was the Philly anchor rumored to have had a gerbil in his ass.
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | January 29, 2023 10:37 PM |
[quote] I checked Steve’s LinkedIn, and he worked as a Specialist at Apple for two years.
What does "a Specialist" do?
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | January 29, 2023 10:49 PM |
Steve went to my gym in the 90s. Always seemed like a nice guy. Worked out hard. I wish him well.
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | January 29, 2023 10:51 PM |
What ever happened to that steamy dreamboat Steve Buscemi?
| by Anonymous | reply 28 | January 29, 2023 10:57 PM |
Please talk about us! We’re both desperate to be famous, especially the love of my life Tommy.
| by Anonymous | reply 29 | January 29, 2023 10:57 PM |
[quote]I checked Steve’s LinkedIn, and he worked as a Specialist at Apple for two years. No offense, but that’s a huge step down from entertainment reporter.
Yes, a step down, but oddly, infinitely more useful in every way. We do have a very odd pecking order in this society.
| by Anonymous | reply 30 | January 29, 2023 10:58 PM |
Thomas Roberts left CNN in 2007 to move to Washington DC to be with his beloved and look for work there. Then he moved out to LA. After his stint in LA he moved to New York City and worked for MSNBC until his show was cancelled in 2016. In 2018 he returned to Atlanta and was the evening anchor at WGCL/CBS. he only lasted there a little over a year. He became embroiled in a little brouhaha due to his penchant for gossiping about coworkers with one of the female anchors. She left the station too. He was accused of contributing to a "toxic work environment". From Sept 2020 to Aug 2022, he served as host of The Daily Mail TV.
No word on what, or who, he's up to now.
| by Anonymous | reply 31 | January 29, 2023 11:04 PM |
Kmetko aged well
| by Anonymous | reply 32 | January 29, 2023 11:09 PM |
R29, how dare you underestimate the importance of a “transportation correspondent.”
| by Anonymous | reply 34 | January 30, 2023 3:40 AM |
Steve Kmetko had the dreamiest eyes. Come back little Stevie!
| by Anonymous | reply 35 | January 30, 2023 3:46 AM |
I vaguely remember Steve Kmetko getting annoyed when asked about his relationship with Greg Louganis, as though it wasn't serious to him. His loss. Greg seems like a sweetheart.
| by Anonymous | reply 36 | January 30, 2023 5:19 AM |
Greg did seem like a sweetheart but dumb as a bag of rocks and probably twice as dull. Nice to cuddle with after a hot sex session, too, but not very articulate or funny.
| by Anonymous | reply 37 | January 30, 2023 5:55 AM |
E! News was never worth a damn again after Steve Kmetko left in the Early 00s.
Who remembers his co-host Gina St. John?
| by Anonymous | reply 38 | January 30, 2023 11:09 AM |
This is one of the best looking 69 year old men I've ever seen.
| by Anonymous | reply 39 | January 30, 2023 12:39 PM |
If you go to Thomas and Patrick’s Instagram there are no pictures of them together and someone in the comments mentions that they divorced. Sad.
| by Anonymous | reply 40 | January 30, 2023 12:54 PM |
Steve Bartlestein apparently became an itinerant baseball umpire (at least as of 2016).
| by Anonymous | reply 41 | January 30, 2023 1:04 PM |
Steve worked with an old friend of mine, Paul Clinton, now deceased at CBS. I spent some time with Steve and others in LA and NYC- mutual friends situations. He was smart, pleasant and fun- low key. I’m sure he still is.
| by Anonymous | reply 42 | January 30, 2023 1:28 PM |
@R20 A Benza was a clownish Brooklyn Italian caricature. He used to pretend he was tough. He was banned from the Howard Stern Show for slapping Stuttering John 20 years ago. Yeah, tough guys are also gossip columnists.
| by Anonymous | reply 43 | January 30, 2023 1:50 PM |
He wasn't the type of stereotypical gay male like Steve Kmetko that FRAUS get wet for but ca. 1998 I thought that Jay DeDapper from Eyewitness New New York was really cute.
| by Anonymous | reply 44 | January 30, 2023 1:58 PM |
How was Steve Kmetko a "stereotypical gay male"? He never looked gay, or acted gay.
| by Anonymous | reply 45 | January 30, 2023 4:21 PM |
[quote]He never looked gay, or acted gay.
Do you mean effeminate, r45?
| by Anonymous | reply 46 | January 30, 2023 4:34 PM |
R44 I forgot about Jay De Dapper. I used to crush on him. Just googled him and found his LinkedIn. He works for the Marist College Public Opinion Polls now as director of strategy. Good for him n
| by Anonymous | reply 47 | January 30, 2023 4:39 PM |
Steve Bartlestein may be a jerk but I'd love to sit on his face.
| by Anonymous | reply 48 | January 30, 2023 5:07 PM |
[quote] Do you mean effeminate,
No, I meant stereotypically gay. Not all guys who you can peg for gay are effeminate.
| by Anonymous | reply 49 | January 30, 2023 5:12 PM |
Thomas Roberts has aged well, too
| by Anonymous | reply 50 | January 30, 2023 6:01 PM |
bump for anchor hotties
| by Anonymous | reply 51 | January 31, 2023 4:29 AM |
Thomas Roberta got fired from MSNBC, he landed in some local Atlanta gig and they ended up not liking him. Then went over to dailymailTV which promptly got cancelled.
So now I assume he just has lots of free time to pursue his real passion, getting fucked up and hungrily taking loads.
| by Anonymous | reply 52 | January 31, 2023 4:45 AM |
Thomas Roberts is a DRUNK.
| by Anonymous | reply 53 | January 31, 2023 8:17 AM |
Thomas Roberts' career looked like it was rocketing up with his MSNBC stint. He's a natural in front of the camera. Too bad the whole thing took a nose dive
| by Anonymous | reply 54 | January 31, 2023 1:41 PM |
So many of the upthread posts about "Steve" don't mention a last name. Are you talking about Kmetko or Bartelstein?
| by Anonymous | reply 55 | January 31, 2023 1:57 PM |
Both. They are the same person. Kmetko is his married name
| by Anonymous | reply 56 | January 31, 2023 1:58 PM |
Today, a friend of mine linked to an interview that Steve Kmetko just did with Peri Gilpin a day ago.
Looking into this, it appears that Steve started a new podcast series about three weeks ago. It's on Apple, but there are also links to a youtube channel.
He calls the series "Still Here Hollywood." Looks like he's done five episodes so far. "Episode 0' was his intro and preview of what's to come.
| by Anonymous | reply 57 | February 28, 2024 1:53 AM |
What about AJ Hammer? He was so hot back in the 90s.
| by Anonymous | reply 58 | March 1, 2024 2:11 PM |
[quote]On the other hand, she married Steven Soderberg, so she's living large. Work is for the poor.
Asner even stuck around after he impregnated another woman. He swore it was only a two-night stand that happened while they were separated, while the kid's mom stressed in legal filings that they had sex "many times" during their affair.
| by Anonymous | reply 59 | March 1, 2024 2:24 PM |
I used to bump into him at Akbar, my go-to local spot in Silverlake - it's this fantastic mix of being a gay-owned gay bar, but also straight-friendly, just giving off a nice neighborhood vibe. Back in the late naughts, around 2007-09, I'd catch sight of him at Akbar, usually rolling solo. Instead of mingling, he'd be perched on a barstool, lost in his own little world of booze. Seeing his once-handsome face clouded by the haze of too much drinking was kinda sad.
Even though I'm not into E!, I knew he was a reporter. But the nitty-gritty of his personal and work life? No clue. If you're after a bit of juicy gossip, well, this all I got.
| by Anonymous | reply 60 | March 1, 2024 5:45 PM |
I always thought that Kmetko would’ve been great as a host on TCM - much better than any they have now. And celebrities always seemed to really love him, so he would have had wonderful interviews to take up where Robert Osborne left off when he died.
| by Anonymous | reply 61 | March 1, 2024 6:45 PM |
[quote] I used to bump into him at Akbar, my go-to local spot in Silver Lake.
Fixed.
| by Anonymous | reply 62 | March 1, 2024 8:52 PM |
I met Thomas once, in a professional setting, and he seemed as dumb as a box of rocks.
| by Anonymous | reply 63 | March 1, 2024 9:53 PM |
