Kerri-Lee Halkett Rides Internet Fandom To Emmy Win

There are a lot of things to like about local anchorbabe Kerri-Lee Halkett (at right with Matt Cord for some reason). One, she hasn’t taken a restraining order out on me or this website or threatened to sue me for libel.

But, more importantly, she won a Mid-Atlantic Emmy for Best Anchor, besting out Larry Mendte and Alycia Lane. Amusingly enough, some dude (Jason Bristol) from some station you’ve never heard of (WHP CBS21) won Best Sports Anchor.

According to the nominees list, she bested out Mendte twice; nonetheless, Larry still appeared to take home about 22 Emmys. Perhaps now that KLH has an award she can finally get some coverage in the New York tabloids. A tipster reports Halkett was “backstage when it happened and didn’t even know she’d won,” which could mean she’s humble, too. Yeah, that’ll never play in New York.

Mid-Atlantic Chapter - Emmys [Word .docs]

Chicago Swimsuit Controversy Way More Fun Than Ours

While she might not attract quite the desire our own bikini-clad newsbabe does, Chicago’s Amy Jacobson did do one thing Alycia Lane didn’t: She released the photos. Or, rather, the video got out.

Well, okay, the situation is a little different. Jacobson was covering the disappearance of a man’s wife for CBS 5 in Chicago and showed up at his house in a swimsuit. Then, somebody took video and Channel 5’s rival, Channel 2, broadcast the video online and Jacobson eventually resigned from the station. (She says she made a “horrible mistake.” Gasp!)

Meanwhile, Alycia Lane has yet to show up in a swimsuit, one-piece or bikini, anywhere. But it’s apparently okay to joke with her about it, as the owner of a Bala Cynwyd gym put on Kerri-Lee Halkett’s bikini top in order to make fun of Alycia Lane.

Lane took a photo and will now be showing it to friends who ask to see her bikini photos, apparently. If she issues a press release announcing the release of her fake bikini photos… well, it’s be funny, but disappointing, I guess.

Jacobson: I made ‘horrible mistake’ [Chicago Tribune]
Reporter’s pool visit results in departure [Chicago Tribune]
Reporter Leaves NBC 5 Amid Stebic Controversy [CBS 2]
Lane takes a new bikini shot [Daily News, 3rd item]

Kerri-Lee Through The Years

We interrupt this semi-hiatus — Gotcha! Like I was actually going to post this week! — for an important breaking announcement. Reader John Smith (not his real name) passed along this gallery of Kerri-Lee Halkett through the years, even going back to her days in Washington and Boston.

While this doesn’t have the hi-definition glory of the more current Fox News at 5 gallery, it does feature an awful expansive look at KLH’s career. I think it’s fair to say they’re both kinda creepy (in an endearing-yet-creepy way), but probably not as much as Kerri-Lee’s commenters on her blog, and we can move on.

The “through the years” gallery also has this fine screencap from 2002:

Check out the cleavage on that cartoon! Just think if Halkett wore low tops on the air like that all the time. I don’t even want to guess what the online galleries would be like.

Editor’s Note: I don’t know what year the first photo is from, but she has a slightly modified Rachel haircut so place it sometime around then.

1156 Pictures of Kerri-Lee [hamtwoslices.net]
Archives: Kerri-Lee Halkett

A Whole Lot Of Kerri-Lee

The above photo is from the Kerri-Lee Halkett collection on SuperiorPics Celebrity Forums, a sort of clearing house for creepiness. (My favorite poster is the one below the Kerri-Lee photos, who has a link to his top 10 women, which he calls The Rod Squad. And his #1 is Patricia Heaton.)

I’m not sure what’s happening to KLH there, but I think it’s safe to say it’s awesome.

Kerri-Lee Halkett newswoman from Fox29 Philadelphia PA HDTVcaps [SuperiorPics Celebrity Forums]
Thanks, Jen.

Unlike Most Female Philadelphians, Kerri-Lee Halkett Not Completely Terrified Of Dan McQuade

Yesterday, Phillyist contributor G.W. Bridge had an interview on the blog with none other than Kerri-Lee Halkett. Did you know Kerri-Lee is from Canada? Yeah, you probably knew that. Did you know she doesn’t visit Kerri-Lee.com but knows the information on it is out-of-date?

Anyway, the interview also touched on yours truly — because, really — and despite actual television footage to the contrary, I’m always a little nervous that people I write about will one day hunt me down and I’ll wake up dead one morning.

Well, it appears I’m somewhat in the clear:

Several local bloggers, like Daniel McQuade, seem to talk about you a lot, and your blog on the station website generates a great deal of comments, some a bit unusual. How do you feel about this and do you enjoy blogging?

Well the world of blogging is a powerful one. That is the lesson I have learned. Be careful what you write in a blog, because it will wind up cut and pasted on everybody else’s blogs. I think it is kind of fun. My mom taught me a very good lesson, never say anything, never write anything, never do anything that you don’t want everybody to know about or respond to. So I kind of blog with that rule in mind. If this was going to get everywhere, would I be comfortable with that? So when I do see it cut and pasted and that sort of thing, I always think I suspected that one.

I just didn’t realize it could be as powerful as it is and I think that excites me and scares me a little bit. So, yeah, I am intrigued by the whole blogging thing and yes we do have to blog.

Oh crap. Write things you don’t want everybody to know about? Well, damn, maybe I shouldn’t have that reading about how disappointed I am in myself.

Since KLH didn’t mention me specifically in her answer, I can only assume one of two things: (1) She’s cool with the blog, or (2) She doesn’t want to say anything mean. Either way, it works for me!

Phillyist Interviews… Kerri-Lee Halkett [Phillyist]
Fox 29 [Flickr]
Archives: Kerri-Lee Halkett
Archives: Daniel McQuade Deathwatch

Decisions, Decisions

Yesterday, 5:01 p.m., inside a Gmail Talk box:

me: oh my god

Friend: ?
me: erin o’hearn is filling in on abc and kerri-lee halkett is on fox
WHO DO I WATCH
Mike: oh man
picture in picture
me: you always know the right answer

Kerri-Lee Halkett [MyFox Philly]
Erin O’Hearn [6 ABC]

Kerri-Lee Halkett Finally Makes Stay-At-Home Dads’ Dreams Come True

Sound the siren! WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP. (I assume this is how one onomatopoeizes a loud, important siren.)

Kerri-Lee Halkett writing on her blog (emphasis mine):

In May– at the next Phillyfit Bash, yours truly is going to be part of a Kissing Booth (it’s so Brady Bunch, isn’t it? I feel like Jan trying to make extra money for the school band or something) Anyway, money will benefit the animals of Hurricane Katrina– cats and dogs left without owners, homes, and in desperate need of medical care. Hope you will come and support the event, and bring your whole family!

While I doubt I’d be allowed to enter any sort of party with the word “fit” in it, I figured I’d pass along the tidbit.

Support Some Great Causes! [MyFox Philly]

Kerri-Lee Breaks Thousands Of Philadelphia Hearts

Remember back in the old days — i.e. earlier this year — back before Milton Street, before the Philebriti/web guru couple Infiniti ad, but after Barbaro? Me neither.

But I went back through my archives and found there was about a week where this site was nothing but Kerri-Lee Halkett. This, of course, culminated in the inexplicable mention of yours truly on television by not only Kerri-Lee Halkett but also Jennaphr Frederick. (What more could a boy want?) After that point, I sort of figured there wasn’t much else to do to top that, and it was over.

But then, I read this item in yesterday’s Dan Gross column:

There’s a newsome twosome in television news: Fox 29 anchor Kerri-Lee Halkett and NBC-10 reporter Jamison Uhler have been dating for about two months. When Uhler, a Delaware County native, moved to the area in January 2006, to join NBC-10, he arrived from his last job in Orlando with a fiancee named Rebecca, a nurse. The couple split amicably late last year, and we’re told there was no overlap in the relationships for Uhler, who knows Halkett from Arizona State University, where both studied journalism.

Oh, I see how it is. I stop writing about Kerri-Lee Halkett and she goes and runs off with an NBC 10 reporter! (I know the timing doesn’t quite work out, but I already started on this extended joke and I don’t feel like coming up with something up.) My only question to Kerri-Lee: Why would you date this guy when you could date State Senator Vince Fumo? Wait, I guess that’s a rhetorical question.

Halkett and Uhler sittin’ in a tree [Daily News, 3rd item]
Archives: Kerri-Lee Halkett

Vince Fumo Is All Over The City’s Anchorwomen

Last week, Daily News gossip writer Dan Gross reported Vince Fumo was smitten with Alycia Lane and had dinner with her several times in an attempt to woo her with his plans to raise alpacas and his many Oreck vacuum cleaners.

(Gross also said she went to an Eagles game with Fumo, but Lane emailed him to say she hadn’t been to an Eagles game “nor any other sporting event” with him. Hmm. Nor any other sporting event. My guess is they went and saw some sort of pseudo-sport, like poker or NASCAR.)

Today, Gross reports Lane wasn’t the only one Fumo wanted to get under the covers: In addition to Lane, he also wanted Kerri-Lee Halkett. Gasp!

Shortly after Halkett started at Fox 29 in 2002, she was invited by her neighbors Ruth Arnao and Mitch Rubin, the state Turnpike Commission chief, to join the couple and Fumo for dinner at the Capital Grille (1338 Chestnut).

The dinner was the only time Halkett and Fumo had met, but according to a friend of Halkett’s, a Fumo friend later told the anchor that Fumo was interested in dating her. Halkett, who had a boyfriend at the time, did not pursue any political hanky-panky.

Both issued the usual denials. In other news, I think Jessica Borg and Erin O’Hearn will soon be enjoying dinners at the Palm.

Update, 6:00 p.m.: The Fox 5 o’clock news reminds me that I am now getting links from a women-wearing-boots fetish messageboard to this post.

Dan Gross | More on the Vince [Daily News]
Feb. 8: 63-Year-Old Man Lusts For Thirtysomething

PWD Continues Inexplicable Assault On City’s Media Outlets

I must issue a correction to this Jan. 23 report on Kerri-Lee Halkett and Jennaphr Frederick. The boots were apparently not real leather. PETA, you can stop protesting outside 4th and Market now.

Oh, yeah, and here’s how I learned this. More of it will be covered in my forthcoming book, How To Be A Media Whore For Fun And Profit.

It just goes to show: If you work hard enough, even a boy from the a rowhome without cable in Northeast Philadelphia can one day have nice things said about him by nice-looking women wearing pleather boots on television. The American dream is alive and well, people.

Jan. 23: Leather Boots Put Fox 29 News On Top