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April 10, 2013
Gay TV personality Nate Berkus is engaged

Celebrated with fiance Jeremiah Brent in Peru atop Machu Picchu

Nate Berkus, who lost his partner in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, has found love again and is getting married.

Berkus confirmed today that he is marrying Jeremiah Brent, his boyfriend of more than a year.

Berkus, 41, proposed to Brent on Monday (8 April). The couple then celebrated atop the famed Machu Picchu in Peru where they are vacationing with friends.

February 28, 2013
Ellen opens up about tough times on Australian talk show

Ellen DeGeneres says she was broke and had no job offers for three years after she came out in 1997

Ellen DeGeneres showed her serious side to Australian talk show host Tracy Grimshaw in an interview broadcast on Monday night.

The usually light-hearted TV presenter and actress talked frankly about the dip in her career after she came out publicly in 1997.

Soon after she came out on The Oprah Winfrey Show, DeGeneres' sit com Ellen was cancelled.

October 29, 2012
Anderson Cooper's daytime talk show will end after its second season

Tweaked format this fall did not help ratings

Anderson Cooper's foray into daytime television is shaping up to be more like the short run of Nate Berkus than the extended stay of Ellen DeGeneres.

The openly gay CNN newsman's show, Anderson Live, is still early in its second season but it was announced on Monday (29 October) that it will not be returning for a third year.

December 10, 2011
Oprah Winfrey protege has show canceled

Gay U.S. talk show host Nate Berkus has daytime program canceled after two years

Nate Berkus made American television history last year when he became the first openly gay man to host a nationally syndicated talk show.

But that daytime program, The Nate Berkus Show, has just been canceled and will not have a third season.