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Thursday, January 15, 2009
1/16: Catching up (briefly) with Porsche Foxx
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Porsche Foxx was let go by V-103 in late November under mysterious circumstances.
Foxx — nee Stephanie Calhoun — called me back Thursday, caught me a bit by surprise. She did tell me she left V-103 amicably, that it had nothing to do with drugs or alcohol. She was a bit vague, though, on what actually happened.
She did say she discovered a lump in her left breast three weeks before she left V-103. She said she lacked “support” from the station management. That’s all she would say why she left her job seven months before her two-year contract was over. “I want to keep it positive,” she said. She will be having the benign lump taken out of her breast later this month.
Foxx said she has another job possibly coming down the pike but wouldn’t be specific what type of job it would be except we might hear her again somewhere.
She was at V-103 for several years til late 2004 when she got caught in a DUI, with pot possession. V-103 let her go in early 2005. She got a second shot at V-103 in mid-2007 after rehab and time to get her life together. Her ratings were solid as mid-day host so her departure was a bit odd.
I’m sure she’ll land somewhere else. She’s that popular. I was getting emails wondering about her virtually every day since her departure seven weeks ago. We’ll see where, once perhaps her six-month noncompete is over. (She still has four months to go on that front.)
