She's the driving force (along with the CBS corporation) behind this show becoming the complete and utter joke it is today. Ms. Blue Bell used to work for "Hard Copy", which gives a perfect explaination for all of the tabloid, sensationalistic filth that has poluted "ET" in the past few years.

I never met Linda Blue Bell before, but even so, she makes me completely and utterly sick. I'm so tired of seeing Anna Nicole Smith, Dannilyn, crazy Britney Spears, the shameless character assasination of Heath Ledger shortly after his death from drugs, the Osmonds, eating disorders/weight issues, Valerie Bertinelli (or any other over-the-hill, accient celeb that nobody under the age of maybe 35 care about), the cheesy product placements and CBS-TV show plugs, etc., etc., etc. "Entertainment Tonight" actually, was once a fairly respectable news magazine program before Blue Balls showed up.

http://www.entertainmentcareers.net/profile/people/LindaBellBlue.asp

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,298303,00.html

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Since July 5, ET has been helmed by executive producer Linda Bell Blue, who held the same post at Hard Copy and has given the softer ET more edge. Blue replaced Tesh and coanchor Mary Hart's start-of-show spiel with a punchier intro emphasizing the sensational. A segment inspired by the Hugh Grant scandal included a visit with Sunset Boulevard prostitutes. Another promised that Keanu Reeves ''is finally coming clean about some dirty Hollywood rumors'' -- then revealed that in an interview, Reeves declared (surprise!) he's not gay.

For her part, Blue insists no such overhaul is in the works. ''I'm not going to make ET into a tabloid show,'' says Blue, 39, who took Hard Copy from worst to first against hard hitters A Current Affair and Inside Edition. ''I'm just producing it a little differently. This ship is not broken; I'm not going to fix it.''

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