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Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Mendte asks Irish for forgiveness, Bolaris asks Fox to hire Alycia
Larry Mendte continued his Summer Apology tour Sunday night at the Irish Center (Carpenter & Emlen) in Mount Airy. Mendte, with Fox 29 anchor wife Dawn Stensland, addressed a crowd at a fundraiser to save Sunday Irish radio shows. He apologized for his actions and asked the Irish community, whom he called his extended family, for forgiveness. The former CBS 3 anchor on Friday pleaded guilty to a felony charge of illegally accessing Alycia Lane's private e-mails, and later apologized while also admitting to having had a flirtatious, unprofessional and improper relationship with Lane. Michael Bradley, president of the St. Patrick's Day Parade Committee, introduced Mendte by saying, "Here is a man who has done 99 great things in his life but he's only being remembered lately for one mistake he's made." Mendte got a rousing hand from many in attendance, but one of our readers said he felt the apology was "pathetic and really had no place being part of this event."

In other Lane/Mendte news, Fox 29 meteorologist John Bolaris, a good friend of Lane's, has been lobbying station management to hire her there. While it might be a nice ratings stunt to awkwardly pair her at the anchor desk with Stensland, we're told Lane's hire there is unlikely. A Fox 29 spokeswoman says the station has no news at this time. Meanwhile, Bolaris got a shout-out in an interoffice e-mail sent by Fox 29's Dave Schratwieser praising the station's team effort in covering the Mendte/Lane story on Friday. Apparently, Bolaris texted Lane, who got her attorney, Paul Rosen, to do a live hit with Schrat after his news conference.
Posted by Dan Gross @ 9:30 AM  Permalink | File Under: Alycia Lane | | Crime and Punishment | | Scandals | 38 comments
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Posted by mahorn 09:58 AM, 08/27/2008
Dan, Get off of Mendte's unit. U sweat that dude.
Posted by Eclecticthings 10:16 AM, 08/27/2008
I think it was interesting to hear about the Bolaris connection.
Posted by larryork 10:27 AM, 08/27/2008
Dan, this is the same groveling piece of rubbish that was posted earlier from today's paper. You've already proven you're an equal opportunity sycophant with Alycia and Larry. Get off your knees and do some real work.
Posted by TTso 10:40 AM, 08/27/2008
*yawn*
Posted by iLoveMEsomeMe 11:56 AM, 08/27/2008
If I were Bolaris, I would want them to hire Alycia Lane too.
Posted by dar 12:36 PM, 08/27/2008
Speaking of ledger, the villians in the new batman move were announced last week-- the olsen twins. Now thats news you should be reporting gross.
Posted by LBoogie 12:47 PM, 08/27/2008
Don't you see what Bolaris is doing here. He is trying to get Lane and Halkett at once (catch my drift....) Stop eating your roast beef and prov sub Dan and report the truth.
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Posted by Jinx 02:21 PM, 08/27/2008
My favorite part of this article is...."pathetic and really had no place being part of this event." Hello! EXACTLY! Larry is trying so hard to use the SAME OLD CHEESE! SNORE IS RIGHT! Apology tour, please. I think I'm gonna be sick. Someone PLEASE tell that psycho that nobody is buying his saint garbage anymore? Frankly I can't believe anyone bought it before, with his shifty eyes and pancake face.......SO TIRED OF HEARING ABOUT HIM!!!! Hey, you know what's interesting about Larry Mendte?.....NOTHING! I agree, Dan needs to start doing some real work. Hey Dan, have you been gaining more weight with all that is STILL being fed to you by Larry? That self promoting fool just keeps digging himself in deeper and deeper, that is the only entertaining part about this whole thing.......
Posted by loosecannon 04:51 PM, 08/27/2008
So basically Bolaris got Lane's attorney to bash Mendte immediately after the press conference so Mendte would look bad. How are we supposed to watch Bolaris/Stensland together? Bolaris must hate her to do that to her on her own station.
Posted by poorcarole 05:52 PM, 08/27/2008
philly news men are gangsta'
Posted by Jinx 06:09 PM, 08/27/2008
Who are you kidding? She does not hate, she does not care, she just serves. I mean she must be a Stepford wife if she is standing by Larry's side......or so he says. Yea, I'm sure Larry was the one who said "no honey, I don't want to drag you down too, BooHooooooo,love love love", ppppppp Bologna, she is either so furious with him that she is talking to her own lawyer, or she was right by his side laughing as he read through all of Alycia's emails and forwarded them to Dan.
Posted by Fast Eddie 09:18 PM, 08/27/2008
Alycia + Kerri Lee = Big Ratings
Posted by flamingo 10:02 PM, 08/27/2008
I'm sure Dawn Stensland would love to see Alicia Lane in the Fox newsroom everyday!! What a joke.
Posted by Citizen Rorshach 08:49 AM, 08/28/2008
I really wish someone would develop a coke habit or expose themselves in public, something new.
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