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Stephanie Edwards (television personality)

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Stephanie Edwards
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Occupation(s)Television personality, actress

Stephanie Edwards is an American television personality and actress.

Career

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Born in Kenyon, Minnesota,[citation needed] Edwards began her career as an actress, and became widely known as an on-air personality in the 1970s. She co-hosted ABC-TV's AM America, the forerunner to Good Morning America, jointly with Bill Beutel. (She continued with GMA, often substituting for Joan Lunden.) Previously, she had hosted a similar West Coast news and talk program in Southern California, AM Los Angeles along with Ralph Story.

Edwards was nominated in 1979 for a Daytime Emmy Award as Outstanding Host or Hostess in a Talk, Service or Variety Series, for her show Everyday.[citation needed]

She was also the continuing co-host of the Tournament of Roses Parade on Los Angeles television channel KTLA (broadcast widely as a "superstation" across the United States) with former game show host Bob Eubanks from 1978 to 2005, resuming again in 2009. She ended her 35-year career as co-host in 2016.

Tournament of Roses parade

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For the 2006 KTLA Rose Parade broadcast, Edwards was replaced after 28 years as Eubanks' co-host in the main booth by KTLA morning news co-anchor Michaela Pereira, and reassigned as an on-street reporter (having to stand outside in the rain while giving periodic live updates). Although all three were equally billed as co-hosts, the move created a storm of controversy, and was seen as insensitive by many of Edwards' fans, as well as by local TV critics.[1][2]

In 2009, Edwards rejoined Eubanks as co-host of the Tournament of Roses Parade coverage on KTLA.[3] On September 25, 2015, Eubanks revealed that the 2016 parade would be their last.[4]

Edwards was also the longtime commercial spokesperson for the California-based supermarket chain Lucky Stores from the mid-1980s until they merged with Albertsons (1998).

Filmography

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Film
Year Film Role Notes
1973 Maurie Carol Alternative title: Big Mo
1980 The Formula Reporter
Television
Year Title Role Notes
1971 Love, American Style 1 episode
1972 Temperatures Rising Reporter 1 episode
1973 Marcus Welby, M.D. Judith Haines 1 episode
The Christmas Visit Alice Johnson Television movie
Match Game 73 Herself 5 episodes
1973–1974 The Girl with Something Extra Angela 10 episodes
1977 Police Story Faye Ludwig 1 episode
1984 The Hoboken Chicken Emergency Newscaster Television movie
1985 Lots of Luck Television movie

Award nominations

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Year Award Result Category Series
1979 Daytime Emmy Award Nominated Outstanding Host or Hostess in a Talk, Service or Variety Series Everyday

References

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  1. ^ Mickadeit, Frank - Edwards left in the cold at Rose Parade Orange County Register, January 4, 2006
  2. ^ Roderick, Kevin - Stephanie gets wet LA Observed, January 1, 2006
  3. ^ Braxton, Greg - Roses for KTLA's Stephanie Edwards Los Angeles Times, September 16, 2008
  4. ^ "World Exclusive: Stephanie Edwards and Bob Eubanks Make a Big Announcement: 'It's Just Time'". 25 September 2015.
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