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Ex-Anchor And Accused Wife Beater Rob Morrison "Is Planning On Blogging Again"
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Jen Chung
Published Mar 10, 2013
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Last month, WCBS 2 news anchor Rob Morrison was arrested for allegedly choking his wife, CBS Market Watch reporter Ashley Morrison, in their Connecticut home. While the couple issued a statement that the situation had been "greatly exaggerated," the Darien police said that Rob Morrison indicated he would "kill" his wife if they let him out. Now the former Marine is planning his comeback, if you believe the Daily News' sources.
Apparently he's "writing a tell-all autobiography that he thinks could be turned into a TV series." Morrison had blogged for the Huffington Post years ago, Daddy Diaries: Confessions of a Stay-at-Home Anchorman, which were written after he left WNBC (Ashley Morrison allegedly confronted WNBC management over an affair her husband was having with an intern).
The News calls the blog, "full of TV insider stories and jokes that rivaled 'Anchorman' in a funny peek at the news business," and had apparently attracted some TV interest. A friend says, "Rob isn’t the sort of guy that gives in and goes away. He’s a fighter. He knows it’s going to be hard for him to find another job in TV, so he is planning on blogging again. This is his chance to tell his side of the story firsthand. He’s already started writing."
Not so funny/speaking of fighting: Details from a different incident where police were called to the Morrisons' home, where Rob Morrison allegedly choked his wife so had she nearly passed out. Ashley Morrison's mother had said, "This has gone on for too long... When you choke someone, you know how quick it is to tear a blood vessel? Within minutes, you can kill someone. It’s attempted murder." Sort of funny, in an extremely depressing way: How Morrison has been drinking his sorrows away and telling reporters, "So unless you want to talk about the Bruins or the Grateful Dead, I’m done bro."
Morrison has insisted he never laid a hand on his wife, trying to explain, "Don’t always assume it’s the woman that calls the cops." He currently cannot be within 100 yards of his wife—so if this turns into a TV series, we're thinking something dark and depressing, like on AMC.
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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