Tony Potts (b. January 23, 1963) is a
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television personality and weekend host of
Access HollywoodAccess Hollywood is a weekday television entertainment news program covering events and celebrities in the entertainment industry. It was created by former Entertainment Tonight executive producer Jim Van Messel, and is currently directed by Robert Silverstein...
. Potts has been at
Access Hollywood since April 1999.
Potts moved from
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to
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in late 1997 after signing a one-year, talk-show development deal with ABC/Buena Vista Television. The subsequent pilot was not picked up in late 1998. He then signed a development deal with
Paramount TelevisionParamount Television was an American television production/distribution company that was active from 1959 to January 17, 2006.Its successor is CBS Television Studios, formerly CBS Paramount Television...
(he was once a correspondent/fill-in host on the Paramount TV-packaged
Entertainment TonightEntertainment Tonight is a daily tabloid-like television entertainment news show that is syndicated by CBS Television Distribution throughout the United States, Canada and in many countries around the world. Kaylee Stacey is the producer...
from June to September 1998) before leaving to join
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and
Access Hollywood.
In the mid-1990s Potts was a host on
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's groundbreaking morning show
Good Day New YorkGood Day New York is the first morning show to air on a Fox owned-and-operated station, launching on August 1, 1988....
. At the time,
Good Day New York was the number one morning show in New York City, beating all the network morning shows.
Good Day New York helped launch the career of
Gordon ElliottGordon Elliott is an Australian reporter and producer, best known for his work on the syndicated 90's TV talk show program The Gordon Elliott Show.-Early life and early career:...
(who went on to host his own syndicated talk show).
During Potts' time in New York he appeared in
Mel GibsonMel Colm-Cille Gerard Gibson, AO is an American Australian actor, film director and producer and screenwriter. Born in Peekskill, New York, Gibson moved with his parents to Sydney when he was 12 years old and later studied acting at the National Institute of Dramatic Art.After appearing in the Mad...
's film,
Ransom. He has since appeared in a number of films and television shows. Potts was in the season-two finale of
CSI: MiamiCSI: Miami is an American police procedural television series, which premiered on September 23, 2002 on CBS. The series is a spin-off of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation....
playing a helicopter pilot. He played himself on several episodes of the FX series,
DirtDirt was an American television serial broadcast on the FX network. It premiered on January 2, 2007 and starred Courteney Cox as Lucy Spiller, the editor-in-chief of the first-of-its-kind "glossy tabloid" magazine DirtNow, which was previously two separate publications: drrt and Now Dirt (styled...
, which starred
Courteney CoxCourteney Bass Cox , also known as Courteney Cox Arquette, is an American actress, best known for her role as Monica Geller on the sitcom, Friends. Courteney has also starred in Dirt and the Scream series, and has guest-starred in Scrubs. She is currently starring in Cougar Town.-Early life:Born in...
.
Sports
On February 16, 2007, Potts won the NBA All-Star Celebrity Game Most Valuable Player award, as Potts scored 14 points and had 8 rebounds as the West defeated the East 40-21.
Education
He graduated from California State University at Humboldt with a B.A. in Journalism/Editorial Writing.
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