By The newspaper
Dec 28, 2023, 7:55 PM EST
The famous and daring celebrity interviewer, host and film critic, Bobby Rivers, died last Tuesday in a Minneapolis hospital. He was 70 years old.
His sister Betsy told The Hollywood Reporter that Rivers had had a series of mini-strokes and a recurrence of lung cancer.
“Everyone hails pioneer Bobby Rivers… He brought so much to the table. RIP Bobby,” Whoopi Goldberg wrote in the caption of a photo, which he posted on Instagram, where they are both smiling.
A native of Los Angeles, Bobby was the oldest of three brothers. While attending high school, Rivers was the winning contestant on The Movie Game.
Later, in 1972, he came to Milwaukee and graduated from Marquette University, where he majored in broadcasting. He wrote for WRIT-FM’s weekend newscasts, then was on a morning show on WQFM and organized public events in that city.
He moved to the small screen reviewing films for WISN-TV, an ABC Milwaukee affiliate, and the PM Magazine program. She also hosted More, a talk show.
The interviewer moved to New York to work at WPIX-TV in 1985, two years later he presented Watch Bobby Rivers where he was able to interact with personalities such as Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks and Mel Gibson.
He also hosted the game show Bedroom Buddies; He served as a lifestyle and entertainment reporter for programs on WNBC-TV, WNYW-TV and Life Time Live.
Other of his emblematic jobs were hosting the Food Network’s Top 5 program and reviewing tapes for Whoopie Goldberg’s radio show.
In the last years of his life Rivers would have been living in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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