Vittoria Woodill lands new reporting gig at CBS3

She was an Eagles cheerleader at 18, worked as a receptionist at CBS3 and now Vittoria Woodill has landed a new gig as a features reporter with Eyewitness News.

Woodill, who hails from the Great Northeast, started her on-air career with CBS in 2008 and also did some work for CBS Radio in Philadelphia.

In 2013, she rejoined the station as a traffic reporter, after a stint with PHL17's "Tango Traffic," where she'd worked since 2010.

Now she'll host a number of segments, including "CBS3 Down the Shore" and "Taste with Tori," which takes her on a tour of Philly's best eating spots. It debuted last week and will air all month during the 11 p.m. newscast.

"The opportunity to showcase the community I grew up in - at the station I grew up watching - is a dream come true," said Woodill. "The fact that I get to eat my way through Philly's best spots is a bonus."

She lists her coverage of Pope Francis' visit to Philadelphia as the top highlight of her career thus far.

Journalist Buzz Bissinger is still, well, buzzing about his testy exchange with filmmaker Michael Moore during a Philadelphia Film Festival event last week.

Bissinger confronted Moore in the middle of a Q&A session following a screening of Moore's new movie, "Where to Invade Next."

"Michael Moore is very clever," Bissinger told me yesterday. "His response to me was admirable. It was also endless - an attempt to overwhelm with facts that had nothing to do with the fact that he completely misrepresented gay rights in Tunisia [in the film].

"He is smart and he is funny," Bissinger said of Moore. "He is also so determined to make his point that it has almost become parody."

Moore had said he'd look into Bissinger's claims and later posted a long response on his website stating that "while the new, free and democratic Tunisia is a better place to live, like with much of the rest of the world, it isn't an easy society in which to be gay."

Jamie Kennedy, the actor and comedian who was in town over the weekend for the film festival, loves People Paper "Street Gazer" Big Rube's fried chicken. In addition to spotlighting fashionable people in the Daily News, Reuben "Big Rube" Harley is also a mean chef. He had Kennedy wolfing down his fried chicken at the Prince Theater (1412 Chestnut St.) on Friday night. Kennedy also recently appeared on "Larry King Live" wearing a T-shirt from Big Rube's clothing line, LipHeele.

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I'm told that the above-mentioned movie director and provocateur Moore ate at Cuba Libre (10 S. 2nd St.) before the screening of his new movie at the film festival.

More than 600 people attended the annual Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia's fundraiser Sunday at the Please Touch Museum (4231 Avenue of the Republic), an affair that highlighted Henry Winkler, a/k/a "The Fonz," as the guest speaker. This appearance also capped off Winkler's 70th birthday weekend.

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