I’m Sorry, So Sorry: Top Ten On-Air Apologies

by Glynnis MacNicol | 6:09 pm, October 6th, 2009

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Hugh Grant Sets the Gold Standard For Late Night Couch Mea Culpas

Don’t Cry For Mark Sanford or Argentina

McGreevey Comes Out of the Closet and his Governorship

President Bill Clinton…Really Should Have Told Everyone To Mind Their Own Business

Eliot Spitzer Admits That He Actually Did Spitz-her

David Letterman On The Other Side of the Couch

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Magister says:

October 6, 2009 at 6:55 pm

I’m nowhere near old enough to remember and no YouTube appears available, but Jack Parr sort of apologized after walking-off the set and leaving the air for almost a month.

Magister says:

October 6, 2009 at 7:07 pm

Oh, and though I never saw them, but Wikipedia says that Mel Gibson gave an explanatory, apologetic-like interview to Diane Sawyer and I’m pretty sure Jerry Lewis has gone on camera at some point to apologize for one or the other things, he’s said.

Magister says:

October 6, 2009 at 9:11 pm

PS) You asked for females. I’m not finding a YouTube and one probably doesn’t exist, but Jane Fonda apologized (to Barbara Walters?) for some of her activities during the Vietnam War.

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