
Another one-on-one from Big Head DC columnist Puck Head:
MSNBC newsreader Mika Brzezinski has received loads of buzz since she refused earlier this month to read a Paris Hilton story, on air. Which, in itself, was a kind of arrogant, we thought at the time, but then we sort of forgot about her, thinking her to be some poor reporter trying to make a name for herself.
Until this morning that is, when some tipsters started writing in, telling us that she seems to revel in providing constant reminders that she’s from a rather ritzy section of McLean, Va., having moved there as an adolescent in 1975 when her dad Zbigniew Brzezinski was named National Security Advisor by President Jimmy Carter.
She’s also mentioned that she later went to high school at the private all-female Madeira School, which counts Stockard Channing, WaPo’s Kathleen Graham and Project Runway’s Wendy Pepper among its alums. Annual tuition is currently $40,830 for boarding students who attend the school.
Mika ended up marrying NYC-based reporter Jim Hoffer, which was noted in one of those exclusive NY Times wedding announcements in 1993. And since her Paris antics, she has reportedly signed a firm deal with MSNBC, which provides her over 500K a year to continue reading the news.
Needless to say, we will never think of Mika as poor ever again.
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