Bobby Rivers, the sassy movie star interviewer and movie critic who hosted Watch Bobby Rivers for VH1 and Prime 5 for the Meals Community, has died. He was 70.
Rivers had been residing in St. Paul, Minnesota, and died Tuesday night time in a Minneapolis hospital, his sister, Betsy, instructed The Hollywood Reporter. She stated he had suffered a sequence of mini-strokes and had a recurrence of lung most cancers.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Rivers was the oldest of three youngsters. He as soon as famous in an interview with Our Lives journal that “each my dad and mom cherished outdated movies, so that they actually cultivated and inspired this in me.”
Rivers was a successful contestant on the syndicated program The Film Sport whereas he was attending the all-boys Verbum Dei Jesuit Excessive Faculty in L.A., then got here to Milwaukee in 1972 and graduated from Marquette College, the place he majored in broadcasting.
After writing weekend newscasts for Milwaukee’s WRIT-FM, he entertained listeners on a morning present at WQFM and hosted public occasions round city. He then made the transfer to tv, reviewing motion pictures for the Milwaukee ABC affiliate, WISN-TV, and the syndicated present PM Journal. He additionally hosted a chat present, Extra.
After Milwaukee, Rivers moved to New York for a job at WPIX-TV in 1985 and from 1987-90 hosted Watch Bobby Rivers, the place he interviewed the likes of Sally Subject, Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks and Mel Gibson.
He later hosted the syndicated sport present Bed room Buddies; served as a life/leisure reporter for applications on WNBC-TV and WNYW-TV and Lifetime Stay, an ABC/Lifetime newsmagazine; hosted the Meals Community’s Prime 5 program from 2002-04; and reviewed movies for Whoopi Goldberg’s nationwide radio present from 2006-08.
Survivors additionally embrace his brother, Tony.
