Gossiping about Alycia Lane and Larry Mendte is no longer fun now that serious accusations have overshadowed the giddy scandal. The odd thing is neither DeMentri nor Mendte had anything to worry about from Delgado or Lane. Mendte has been off the air since May 29, the day his home was searched and computer seized. He was fired June 23, days after Lane filed a lawsuit in which she alleged, among other things, that keeping Mendte on the payroll during a federal probe amounted to sex discrimination.Delgado's star rises on its own. She came to Channel 10 at the same time several new anchors were being tested. Delgado was the one who aced the shows she was given, including the 10 p.m. newscast she did with DeMentri on Channel 17. Lane's attorney Paul Rosen said he believes Mendte also was behind other leaks that got his client into the gossip pages, including one last year in which she e-mailed photos of herself in a bikini to NFL Network anchor Rich Eisen. Eisen's wife intercepted the pictures. Now, he is assigned, pending further notice, to the 4 p.m. show on Channel 10 and the Channel 17 newscast while Delgado has gotten an important morning spot opposite Ruggles. endte, who is married to local Fox news anchor Dawn Stensland, joined the station in July 2003 after several years at the local NBC affiliate. He previously co-hosted "Access Hollywood" and worked at stations in Chicago, San Diego and New York. With all that success, Delgado was no threat to DeMentri because he was not affected by her ascent, except perhaps by comparison. Hey, he has two featured shows of his own. What can be the matter with being on two different stations in established news time slots?
Talk about handling the bull by its horns. What comes as no surprise is that Lane was eventually charged with one felony count of assault on a police officer.Soon she was kicked off from her job which led to a nasty court battle between the network and the news anchor.It would be funny to see something similar happen to one of the male news anchors on Fox. Lane was arrested in the early morning hours of December 2007 in New York City, accused of assaulting a female police officer no less. Talk about handling the bull by its horns. What comes as no surprise is that Lane was eventually charged with one felony count of assault on a police officer.
That simplistic moral is also why we're riveted by the story of Jocelyn Kirsch, the "Bonnie" of "Bonnie and Clyde," the couple accused of stealing identities and money from friends and strangers. She, too, has privileges most of us don't, and look what happened to her! And so it appears that while Lane was being publicly ridiculed, Mendte was the one who was allegedly behaving in a scurrilous, perhaps criminal, way.
But Lane's side of the story portrays her quite differently.
