I found this really funny. Veteran television anchor Sue Simmons, shocked New York's NBC Channel 4 viewers with a four-letter tirade yesterday. Co-workers have said that potty-mouth Simmons is famous for her liquid dinners between broadcasts and zany behavior, former co-workers. Ms. Simmons delivered the blow last night as she read a teaser for her 11 p.m. newscast, prompting an on-air apology from the veteran anchor a half-hour later.

I remember watching Sue Simmons when I lived in New York City. She was a decent anchorwoman, but I didn't know that she was nuts. Co-workers told the New York Post (which I won't take as gospel truth) that "Sue Simmons likes the sauce and she can be cranky about it." "She was sometimes a little tipsy [on the air] to the point where colleagues would take notice." And she still had a contract?

Simmons anchors Channel 4's 5 p.m. newscast, and then has time to pass until 11 p.m. According to the NY Post, those hours are regularly spent at Midtown watering holes like Gallagher's steakhouse and Jean Georges, witnesses said. An employee at Jean Georges at Columbus Circle said Simmons isn't shy about drinking with her meals - and then heading back to work. "She's been here and she's had drinks with her dinner," a Jean Georges employee said. "She's had a cocktail or two, yes, between shows, with dinner."

So, last night, she stepped up to the plate and was crowned a total idiot. During the teaser Simmons told viewers to watch at 11 for a story about rising food costs. The screen had been rolling stock footage of groceries, before turning to a cruise boat. Simmons flipped out and shouted: "What the fuck are you doing?" She is a 28 year WNBC veteran who should have known better, though, she may have been a ticking time bomb who just choose to explode or implode, depending on how you look at this. She is famous for her goofball, on-air behavior. She's been known to make funny faces, feign sleep, double over in laughter and poke fun at strait-laced co-anchor Chuck Scarborough.

Let's see what will happen now that she has apologized. Will she be canned? Actually, didn't Bill O'Reilly have a meltdown on air when he worked at a local channel in New York? Hey, he went on to having his own show on Fox News. So, Sue sober up girl or you'll lose your contract.

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