V.P. of Publicity For Live With Regis and Kelly Claims Publicist's Account Was "Hacked"
By Jamey Giddens on September 29, 2011
Boy oh boy, those ABC Daytimers really need to get better firewalls! Once again someone working for the lineup has allegedly been hacked on Twitter. Following our decision to post the tweet from Live With Regis and Kelly publicist/producer Brittany Forgione's personal account allegedly stating how happy she was that the soaps were over, Forgione's boss, Barbara Warren, vice-president of publicity for the talk show, contacted us saying Forgione had been hacked and demanded we remove the post. First off, no one can "demand" anything from us, because we don't work for Disney or ABC. Now that we've gotten that out of the way...
Boy oh boy, those ABC Daytimers really need to get better firewalls! Once again someone working for the lineup has allegedly been hacked on Twitter. Following our decision to post the tweet from Live With Regis and Kelly publicist/producer Brittany Forgione's personal account allegedly stating how happy she was that the soaps were over, Forgione's boss, Barbara Warren, vice-president of publicity for the talk show, contacted us saying Forgione had been hacked and demanded we remove the post. First off, no one can "demand" anything from us, because we don't work for Disney or ABC. Now that we've gotten that out of the way...
While we won't be removing the original post—it seems a bit odd Forgione didn't realize she'd been hacked until two days after the offensive post was published from her account, and continued to tweet on a regular basis, including a response asking soap fans to "calm down"—we agreed to create this post letting our readers know that—according to Warren—Forgione was hacked and that she didn't write either post herself. See both tweets below and judge for yourself:
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17 March 2010
14 hours 3 min
Okay. The original tweet sounded like clueless, brain dead PR speak to me.
14 June 2011
12 hours 56 min
After a classic case of "Open mouth insert foot and start gnawing" comes the classic follow up of CYA. Any ridicule this so called industry
"professional" receives is well deserved. Karma, my dear...
11 April 2009
13 hours 47 min
What an arrogant jerk to demand that you take down a report. Warren's imperious attitude is disgusting. Why do people like her think that everyone should quiver and shake in fear of her?
5 November 2010
1 year 29 weeks
ROTFL I can't stop laughing
17 June 2009
8 hours 43 min
they can't demand sh*t!
FREEDOM OF THE PRESS! FREEDOM OF THE SPEECH!
12 February 2010
4 days 12 hours
Is this supposed to make her seem like less of a bitch? Because, sadly, it doesn't. Oh and all that BS about her account being hacked sounds like exactly that-------BS! I wish these "celebrities" (or whatever the hell she is supposed to be!) would come up with more original LIES>
17 May 2009
8 weeks 22 hours
It seems the hacking claim is a ploy to try and misdirect the blame of what she really tweeted--WHO DO THEY THINK THEY ARE FOOLING? Honestly.
Warren s/b fired for trying to cover up for Brittany and looking like a bigger fool in the process.
Brittany's obviously ignorant, insensitive, out of the loop, over her head, you pick one! Sure it sounds foot in your mouth but, they are back peddling now.
25 May 2011
27 weeks 4 days
Yeah right and I'm Jesus Christ! No one hacked into her account but herself now she shocked that soap fans went after her.
29 September 2011
1 year 21 weeks
When are they going to start realizing we're not idiots? Of course she wasn't hacked...just obviously. Both these ladies are kind of ...cracked.
29 October 2009
1 day 27 min
They should both be let go if this is the best "PR" they can come up with!
29 October 2009
1 day 27 min
They should both be let go if this is the best "PR" they can come up with!
29 October 2009
1 day 27 min
They should both be let go if this is the best "PR" they can come up with!
5 July 2008
1 hour 27 min
B To The S On This One
Spin Spin Spin
16 April 2010
9 weeks 1 day
OMG Its Wienergate all over again, his account was hacked to hmmmmmm. Oh wait his wasn't hacked, oh neither was Chris Lee's, wow all these not so innocent person's social media accounts are being hacked. You did it, now own it!
15 April 2008
5 weeks 3 days
The classic "my twitter was hacked because I said something stupid" excuse.
11 March 2010
15 weeks 4 days
Lame excuse.
15 August 2011
2 weeks 22 hours
well i tweeted and said everytime she opens her mouth she shows her stupidity. kelly r ipa was a big part of all my children. she is dogging her own kind. wonder how kelly ripa feels about this.
9 July 2009
1 year 3 weeks
Yep, I'm wondering the same thing! Kelly, where art thou Kelly?! Care to comment?!
5 July 2008
1 hour 27 min
Kelly's ssmart not too IMHO but i wish I was on that set today, Cause U Know Kelly Let Her have it BTS
21 January 2011
1 year 24 weeks
I. CAN'T. STOP. LAUGHING.
Now we know. Both Brittany Forgione and Barbara Warren are pathological LIARS and bullies. No surprise considering they work for ABC. Talk about egg on their faces!!! Go DTC! What goes around comes around.
16 June 2010
12 hours 21 min
Kelly is going to tow the company line.
Do not remove info. Freedom of press.
People with the talk shows, game shows and court shows are probably glad the soaps are going. It gives them more space for their shows and more security for their jobs.
I still think that that was a stupid move for pr person. Yikes. But lets face it cbs/P&G were just as mean spirited as abc and assciates. I don't forget it even when cbs is playing the good guy now employing those who lost their jobs and having all the abc actors on their shows to show support. Enough time has passed that many have forgotten. I bet the atwts/gl folks have not.
Kelly gets on my nerves so obviously I don't watch that show but she is not going to say anything because she has moved onto her other endeavors.
I saw some videos of her on amc and never cared for her on the that show either. See I am not in pr and I know enough to weigh my words.
15 January 2010
1 year 33 weeks
You'd think ABC would be talking to twitter with as many times as their employees' accounts have been hacked!!
Hee, hee!
1 January 2009
17 hours 26 min
LMAO!!! Clearly the idiot PR person wrote both tweets and was NEVER hacked!!! And clearly her boss was embarrassed so she made up a lame excuse which is simply that, lame!!! LMAO!!!
23 June 2010
8 min 2 sec
Can we get some numbers or e-mail addresses of this woman's bosses? (Not Warren, though--she obviously doesn't care and probably agrees with what she wrote.) She really should be fired for this.
1 July 2009
14 hours 59 min
This is called "damage control" folks, it was hack, right, and I'm the Queen of England.
22 June 2011
12 hours 42 min
Email your comments here:
http://www.dadt.com/live/special/askregiskelly/index.html#sendtextmessage
This is what I sent:
Get rid of her!
In fact, get rid of both of them. How rude was it for your PR rep Brittany Forgione to tweet her approval of the demise of soaps when touting The Chew? Bad PR, bad form, bad move. Uh, Kelly’s roots are AMC and Susan Lucci has been a delightful and gracious guest many times. Then to compound the error, instead of issuing an apology, Barbara Warren tries to bully the good folks at Daytime Confidential to retract their story and claims Forgione’s account was “hacked” when her subsequent tweets clearly indicated that the original ill-considered tweet was legit. It says something when your PR staff cause bad publicity and then try to cover it up with BS spin.
20 November 2008
3 weeks 12 hours
I think her account WAS hacked.......by Brian Frons!! LOL
I actually tweeted Brit F and told her what a lousy thing that was to say considering that actors/writers/crew are out of work and that Kelly got her job on the show in part due to AMC. A few people did retweet me. Next thing I see is that her account has been removed.
I get it that Brit F is not a soap fan. But, considering she work for someone who got her start in the genre and currently producing Dirty Soap--what a dumb thing to put out into cyberspace.
PS--Barbara Warren must think we are all a bunch of dumb f-cks with the hacking excuse. Hilarious!
29 August 2010
9 weeks 3 days
lmao. sheeeeee ... yeah, right. the "hacked" excuse is tired. try being as fresh as the line of manure you try spraying on us fans.
23 July 2008
6 days 9 hours
I seriously want to know where ABC get's these people to staff their office? Brian Fronz, his whole PR team, these idiots... WHERE DO THESE PEOPLE COME FROM? And does no one above Brian Fronz'z stupis ass care that they are making a mockery of ABC? Jesus in the morning.
3 July 2011
12 weeks 12 hours
Who's this Brittany woman trying to fool?! Obviously, her account wasn't hacked and she meant what she said. She probably wasn't expecting the backlash that came after she posted that tweet.
She's an idiot, even though she is entitled to her opinion. Good for you Jamey for not listening to that other idiot, Barbara Warren!!