Oh word!Liz Smith, 86, who has been gossiping since Methuselah (well, actually 33 years) with the NY Post has be F.I.R.E.D.!
The paper. who has been embroiled in their own mess, cites budgetary concerns.
Post editor Col Allan told Smith in a letter on February 9 that "like so many other newspapers around the nation, we are buffeted by unprecedented economic gales." They won't renew her $125,000-a-year contract.
But maybe this is the best for the two. They have been fighting publicly for months; Smith called Allen an "absolute shit" in a column.
Her final column at the Post will run Thursday.
But Liz isn't done working: she'll continue to write columns every day for syndication to other newspapers, she'll write a column for Daily Variety, in addition to a new roles as contributing editor of Parade magazine. Plus she continue to write for wowOwow, the website for elderly women that she co-founded last year.
Sidebar: In her 2000 memoir Natural Blonde, she admitted to having lesbian relationships.
How you doin, Liz.
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