Jeremy Hubbard is coming home. After his ABC national hiatus, the Glenwood Springs native will be back on Denver TV.
Hubbard was a popular reporter/ anchor at Fox 31 when he was wooed away by ABC four years ago. While here, he even won Westword’s “Best Hair on a TV Personality,” a high honor.
He worked out of Chicago for ABC, then hosted the late-night “World News Now,” then was a general-assignment reporter for “World News with Diane Sawyer” and contributed to “Nightline.”
He’s giving up all that and a pad in Brooklyn to return to sister stations Fox 31 and News2. His last day at ABC is May 20; his first day back in Denver is June 6. He’ll co-anchor News2’s 7 p.m. news and co-anchor Fox 31’s 10 p.m. news.
Hubbard says the main reason for the move was to get back to Denver with his son, 7-month-old Charlie. “I wanted to raise my son in Denver,” he tells me. “Brooklyn is loud. Very loud. Denver is the greatest city. I loved my job with ABC, traveling all over the country. I always had a packed suitcase in my office. There was always a thrill in that, but it’s outweighed by having a son. I didn’t want him to grow up talking to me via Skype in a hotel room in Albany.”
Fox 31 general manager Peter Maroney seems excited by the move. “He has grown tremendously both as a reporter and an anchor,” he says. “I think he is a really great fit for us.”
The cost of love.
Denver businessman Spike Buckley is looking for love, maybe even a wife, and he’s ready to pay for it.
Buckley, 60 and fit, has set up a website, , that explains the deal. If you find him an under-50 woman who is very attractive and holds a bachelor’s degree from a noteworthy school and he dates her for a year or marries her within a year, you get $10,000.
Gov. John Hickenlooper in 1992 — when he was a barkeep, not even a mayor — put out the call for a wife with a similar $5,000 “spouse bounty” and, with girlfriend Devany McNeill, ended up on “The Phil Donahue Show” to explain it. Hick and McNeill went on to marry others. The site, which has been up for only a week, has not exactly gone viral. “I haven’t really told people about it. And it had a glitch in it until Tuesday. I have no clue about this, figure I can try it and it’s better than hanging around the dating scene for five years.” Check it out. Also, you can e-mail Buckley at spikebuckley@hotmail.com.
City spirit.
That was Chelsea Handler signing books Thursday afternoon at Boulder Book Store before her one-nighter at the Wells Fargo Theatre . . . Four-time regional air-guitar champ Big Rig at Larimer Lounge tonight . . . Sez who: “My wife doesn’t care what I do when I’m away, as long as I don’t have a good time.” Lee Trevino
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