By RODNEY HO/ rho@ajc.com, originally filed Friday, March 20, 2015
Michelle Burdo, morning news anchor at CBS46 since August 2013, has decided to step down, news director Larry Perret confirmed to me Friday.
She took maternity leave in January but has decided to raise her child full time and not return to work. Her work page on CBS Atlanta has been taken down. Her last Tweet on her work Twitter page was Feb. 25.
You might remember her for her use of the phrase "colored woman" last August during a morning segment about hair. She apologized.
A Staten Island native, she has worked in Gainesville, Fl. and Fort Myers, Fla.
This leaves a morning anchor job open just as Karyn Greer leaves 11 Alive. She does have a non-compete clause so she wouldn't be able to move elsewhere in this market immediately but Greer did work 10 years at Channel 46 in the 1990s.
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Tia Marie Johnson , the wife of Atlanta Braves third baseman Chris Johnson, will be featured on the debut of a new TLC show "Bride By Design" led by Birmingham custom wedding gown designer Heidi Elnora.
The show airs next Friday, March 27, 2015 at 9 p.m. on TLC, the slot usually reserved for "Say Yes to the Dress Atlanta."
Johnson wanted two dresses in one: a flowing wedding gown that could be turned into something more manageable on the dance floor at the reception. She'd keep the same sparkly top. Her budget? $10,000.
Not surprisingly, Johnson got what she wanted and surprised her husband with the two-in-one New Year's Eve. "Heidi was the sweetest person ever," Tia said. "She is such a down-home Southern gal. She put me at ease immediately."
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This episode airs just a few weeks after Freddie Freeman's wife was on "Say Yes to the Dress Atlanta." Tia said she was at that wedding and thought Chelsea Goff's feathery dress was "stunning."
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This Sunday's "Millionaire Matchmaker" on Bravo will feature Kenya Moore of "Real Housewives of Atlanta" at 9 p.m.
Moore has never been married. When she came on the show season five, she had what appeared to be a boyfriend in Walter Jackson and tried to get him to marry her. But he later told V-103 that he showed up on the show as a favor to her and was shocked when she began going down the marriage route.
During season six, she was reportedly dating some African prince but he never showed up on screen and she kept mum about his identity. She also flirted with Phaedra Parks' now jailed husband Apollo Nida but any alleged sexting going on between them, he admitted this season, was false.
Former "Real Housewives of Atlanta" cast member Sheree Whitfield sought love with Patti Stanger in an episode two weeks ago but struck out. That was no surprise given her inability or unwillingness to be open.
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