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Mendte asks Irish for forgiveness, Bolaris asks Fox to hire Alycia

Dan Gross' blog, PhillyGossip, covers the behavior and misbehavior of celebrities both local and Hollywood. His Dan About Town column runs Mondays through Thursdays in the Daily News.

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Mendte asks Irish for forgiveness, Bolaris asks Fox to hire Alycia

POSTED: Wednesday, August 27, 2008, 9:30 AM

Dan Gross

Filed Under: Alycia Lane | Crime and Punishment | Scandals

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.

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Comments (36)

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 9:58 AM, 08/27/2008

Dan, Get off of Mendte's unit. U sweat that dude.

— mahorn

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 10:16 AM, 08/27/2008

I think it was interesting to hear about the Bolaris connection.

— Eclecticthings

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 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.

— larryork

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 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.

— dar

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 2:21 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.......

— Jinx

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:51 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.

— loosecannon

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 5:52 PM, 08/27/2008

philly news men are gangsta'

— poorcarole

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 6:09 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.

— Jinx