Fox 5′s Deidra Dukes has moved to exclusive weekday reporting after more than a decade anchoring the weekend evening news.
In a post on Instagram, Dukes said she initially took the weekend role so she’d have more time with her son. “I was able to volunteer at his school, chaperone field trips, and enjoy other special events with my ‘heartbeat’ during those early years,” she wrote.
But with her son heading off to college, she decided a weekday schedule works best now for her personal life.
“I’m excited for this next chapter, look forward to a return to weekdays, and adding to my reporting duties with my new assignment serving as producer/host of ‘Deidra Dukes Reports,’ a series of specials exploring issues of importance to FOX 5 viewers,” she wrote.
Dukes has been with Fox 5 since 2005 after working at rival WSB-TV.
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Credit: Rodney Ho/rho@ajc.com
Credit: Rodney Ho/rho@ajc.com
WSB radio host Mark Arum celebrated an actual wedding celebration over the weekend in Maine with educator Maya Hutcheson.
Technically, they had already gotten legally married during the peak of the COVID pandemic last October, but this event enabled them to gather with 80 close friends and family.
“It’s more a reaffirmation of vows,” Arum told WSB listeners Wednesday afternoon.
He forgot his suit in Atlanta and on a Sunday morning, he scrambled to find a replacement suit at Brooks Brothers. Fortunately, they had one.
Nobody was looking at Arum, though. All eyes, he said, were on his wife.
“Literal gasps from the audience,” Arum said. “The dress was phenomenal.”
Plus, he added, there was “gorgeous weather, not too hot, not too cold. I couldn’t have asked for a better weekend.”
Arum, who loves talking about food on his show, expressed disappointment that he missed the cocktail hour raw bar oysters and clams because he had to pose for photos. But he did enjoy the clambake during the dinner portion.
This is his second marriage. He previously got divorced in 2016.
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Lil Nas X and Stacey Abrams made Time magazine’s 100 most influential people list this year.
Grammy-winning artist Kid Cudi wrote about Lil Nas X: “What he’s doing is what we need right now. To have a gay man in hip-hop doing his thing, crushing records—that is huge for us and for Black excellence. The way he’s unafraid to make people uncomfortable is so rock ‘n’ roll. He’s a true rock star.”
He recently appeared at the Met Gala in multiple jaw-dropping costumes.
Musician and civil rights legend Harry Belafonte wrote the piece about Abrams: “Alongside a diverse coalition of organizers and volunteers, she spent years working to transform and empower the Georgia electorate. That work resulted in record voter turnout in recent elections. Thank you, Stacey, for all that you have done.”
