If you hadn't heard of Kyra Phillips before this week, you probably are familiar with her now.
She's the CNN anchor and correspondent who left her microphone on when she took a bathroom break during an address by President Bush, being broadcast LIVE from New Orleans on Tuesday.
Phillips was caught with her guard down in the bathroom, chatting with another woman. She not only used a vulgarity on LIVE TV, but she announced that her sister-in-law is "just a control freak," on LIVE TV!
That little incident has turned her into a mega star (I can't back that up).
Her newfound celebrity status did make her worthy of delivering David Letterman's Top Ten List on Thursday.
Phillips is obviously making hay out of a very embarrassing situation.
Before Letterman introduced her, he explained her story and suggested that she was a victim of incompetent directors at CNN.
Phillips, wearing a black suit, came out giggling, and stood center stage.
Before getting to the list, Letterman asked her how things were at home.
Phillips said, "Peachy."
Letterman then brought up the touchy subject that she called her sister-in-law a "control freak."
Phillips replied, "Aren't we all control freaks?"
"It takes one to know one," she added.
Category: Top Ten Kyra Phillips Excuses
10. Still haven't mastered complicated on/off switch.
9. Larry King told me he does this all the time.
8. How was I supposed to know we had a reporter embedded in the bathroom
7. I honestly never knew this sort of thing was frowned upon
6. I couldn't resist a chance to win $10,000 on "America's Funniest Home Videos"
5. I was set up by those bastards at FOX News
4. Like you've never gone to the bathroom and had it broadcast on national television
3. I just wanted that hunky Lou Dobbs to notice me
2. Okay, so I was drunk and I couldn't think straight
1. You have to admit, it made the speech a lot more interesting
Poor Kyra. She's smart to make light of the matter.
In terms of her career, it was just a simple mistake. It was funny. Of course, I'm sure her sister-in-law didn't find the humor in it.
Actually, the conversation that I wish I had overheard was the one that she and her husband and his sister had after Phillips told the world what she thought of her husband's wife.
That had to be priceless.
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The Kyra Phillips excuse that wasn't seen on Letterman--
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