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Good Reading... a Book about the head of Cumulus starring Lew Dickey as the Runaway Groom
Happy Valentine (or not)
Picturing Kimberley Kennedy alone at the altar boggles the male mind.
She is a gorgeous lady. Always has been. No sane man would jilt her and run. But one did, and that public rejection is the subject of the Atlanta TV personality’s new book. “Left at the Altar,” tells about the wedding that never happened and the hope she discovered as she healed.
Right now she is host of WSB-TV’s “Hot Topics,” but most of her career was in news. It is a career that began at WRBL-TV.
Kimberley and her sister Kathleen arrived in Columbus in the middle of the 1980s. Kimberley worked at Channel 3 and Kathleen at Channel 38.
They were products of The Rock, Ga., a town of 89. The Kennedys were small-town girls with big-city dreams.
Kimberley jumped into the deep end of the pool. She came with a desire to learn everything she could about television news. You could picture her behind a national desk.
Each one ended up in Atlanta. Kimberley worked for WSB-TV and Kathleen was a CNN anchor for 15 years.
After five years, Kimberley did a one-year stint in Dallas, returning as a primary anchor at Atlanta’s WXIA in 1996.
That was also the year she met radio mogul Lew Dickey and the same year he proposed.
Dickey is CEO of Cumulus Broadcasting, a company that owns radio stations across the country. At one time Cumulus operated several local stations here. In 2000, People Magazine labeled him one of the nation’s most eligible bachelors.
Feb. 11, 1997 they were to be married at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Atlanta and a gala event it promised to be. Except it never happened.
The night before, at the rehearsal dinner, plans unraveled and she was pulled into the priest’s office. This is how it’s described in her book:
Wedding not to be
“Lew was late, but then he was always late, so I wasn’t really concerned until a few moments later when his sister came in. In stark contrast to the happy people who had already arrived, she was pale and obviously shaken. She came up to me and said that Lew needed to see me, and in that moment I knew. Lew, the priest, and I went into her office. Before Lew said a word, I begged him not to do it, not to say it. He was clearly distraught, and when he was finally able to speak, he looked directly at me and simply said, ‘Kimberley, I can’t do it.’”
It has taken her years to write this book. What should have been a happy event ended up with her talking about the fiasco on “Good Morning America.”
In an interview this week with an Atlanta reporter, Kimberley shows an attitude that’s surprising. You would think she tells her story with rancor. But she doesn’t.
“I never felt that,” she said. “I’ve never been able to figure out how you can go from loving someone to hating them. But it drove my friends crazy. I just wanted him back. Now that I say that out loud, I realize that is just pitiful!”
Looking for an unusual gift for Valentine’s? The book’s available on Amazon.com.
Happy Valentine (or not)
Picturing Kimberley Kennedy alone at the altar boggles the male mind.
She is a gorgeous lady. Always has been. No sane man would jilt her and run. But one did, and that public rejection is the subject of the Atlanta TV personality’s new book. “Left at the Altar,” tells about the wedding that never happened and the hope she discovered as she healed.
Right now she is host of WSB-TV’s “Hot Topics,” but most of her career was in news. It is a career that began at WRBL-TV.
Kimberley and her sister Kathleen arrived in Columbus in the middle of the 1980s. Kimberley worked at Channel 3 and Kathleen at Channel 38.
They were products of The Rock, Ga., a town of 89. The Kennedys were small-town girls with big-city dreams.
Kimberley jumped into the deep end of the pool. She came with a desire to learn everything she could about television news. You could picture her behind a national desk.
Each one ended up in Atlanta. Kimberley worked for WSB-TV and Kathleen was a CNN anchor for 15 years.
After five years, Kimberley did a one-year stint in Dallas, returning as a primary anchor at Atlanta’s WXIA in 1996.
That was also the year she met radio mogul Lew Dickey and the same year he proposed.
Dickey is CEO of Cumulus Broadcasting, a company that owns radio stations across the country. At one time Cumulus operated several local stations here. In 2000, People Magazine labeled him one of the nation’s most eligible bachelors.
Feb. 11, 1997 they were to be married at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Atlanta and a gala event it promised to be. Except it never happened.
The night before, at the rehearsal dinner, plans unraveled and she was pulled into the priest’s office. This is how it’s described in her book:
Wedding not to be
“Lew was late, but then he was always late, so I wasn’t really concerned until a few moments later when his sister came in. In stark contrast to the happy people who had already arrived, she was pale and obviously shaken. She came up to me and said that Lew needed to see me, and in that moment I knew. Lew, the priest, and I went into her office. Before Lew said a word, I begged him not to do it, not to say it. He was clearly distraught, and when he was finally able to speak, he looked directly at me and simply said, ‘Kimberley, I can’t do it.’”
It has taken her years to write this book. What should have been a happy event ended up with her talking about the fiasco on “Good Morning America.”
In an interview this week with an Atlanta reporter, Kimberley shows an attitude that’s surprising. You would think she tells her story with rancor. But she doesn’t.
“I never felt that,” she said. “I’ve never been able to figure out how you can go from loving someone to hating them. But it drove my friends crazy. I just wanted him back. Now that I say that out loud, I realize that is just pitiful!”
Looking for an unusual gift for Valentine’s? The book’s available on Amazon.com.