https://www.mikeyoconnell.com/selected-work daily 1.0 2022-04-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef17d22603e9b6567625c25/f7692983-dfa5-4044-8eaf-8a349e032daa/11COV_THR_041625+%281%29.jpg Selected Work Tina Fey's Next Round https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef17d22603e9b6567625c25/45e5ab89-510d-4e53-b86f-55636b3d60e0/MarcCover.jpg Selected Work Who the F*** Is Marc Maron Without Podcasting? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef17d22603e9b6567625c25/bc4891a6-fabb-41fa-a299-6104da888c8b/10cover_hires_NY.jpg Selected Work The White Lotus Uncensored Oral History https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef17d22603e9b6567625c25/1750891204861-HVTF9HAU5Z5UNRFRU0W3/IMG_5902.jpg Selected Work That Time My House Burned Down https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef17d22603e9b6567625c25/1dfc351a-7056-47a5-b54a-37b7d40aa614/15_Digital_Cover_RT_dramaactress_social.jpg Selected Work The Drama Actress Roundtable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef17d22603e9b6567625c25/1750890683089-5CV39YYQAHJEGOUDZLVY/Photographed%2Bby%2BPat%2BMartin_240815-THR-KathyGriffin-PatMartin-0031-V1.jpg Selected Work The Last Thing Standing Between Kathy Griffin and a Real Comeback https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef17d22603e9b6567625c25/33abf5ff-f855-4368-918f-b5c02f68f1d6/Screen+Shot+2024-04-15+at+9.38.51+AM.png Selected Work Conan O’Brien’s Excellent Adventure https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef17d22603e9b6567625c25/1713199335931-XQJ91H0BHHT0YZW8GLU7/Screen%2BShot%2B2024-04-15%2Bat%2B9.34.08%2BAM.jpg Selected Work Lana Del Rey Forgives Us https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef17d22603e9b6567625c25/1750890929796-TL07IZQG4LZV5TAOUJJN/Screen%2BShot%2B2025-06-25%2Bat%2B3.11.39%2BPM.jpg Selected Work Here’s How You Convince Amanda Seyfried to Leave The Farm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef17d22603e9b6567625c25/b858b47f-375b-4773-bff7-095c868de062/34cover.lores.jpg Selected Work Inventing Keke Palmer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef17d22603e9b6567625c25/9fc90ebd-7447-413c-8099-5e9e860c0c24/25cover.lores.jpg Selected Work Steve Martin Can't Stop https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef17d22603e9b6567625c25/1750891692358-JUZN4DIHT894JDAHR4TC/Screen%2BShot%2B2025-06-25%2Bat%2B3.47.26%2BPM.jpg Selected Work Roy Wood Jr. Has One Daily Show Regret https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef17d22603e9b6567625c25/303377ea-539b-41b7-a0b6-ba4e18ae0c57/3cover.lores.jpg Selected Work Sarah Michelle Gellar Returns to Fighting Form https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef17d22603e9b6567625c25/63895c4e-b130-43bd-bfd0-b13dbfed7e24/Screen+Shot+2025-06-25+at+3.43.16+PM.png Selected Work The No-Longer-Quite-So-Simple Life of Nicole Richie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef17d22603e9b6567625c25/40c66f27-73e2-489f-b849-0a68ba4d28c8/Screen+Shot+2024-04-15+at+10.01.05+AM.png Selected Work It’s the Bravo-conomy, Stupid! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef17d22603e9b6567625c25/8312acef-701b-4368-8120-83696ba6d47b/Gaines+cover.jpg Selected Work Chip and Joanna Gaines' Country Kingdom https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef17d22603e9b6567625c25/71927290-9539-4c26-9730-51f6a0531298/Screen+Shot+2024-04-15+at+9.30.01+AM.png Selected Work Cher Is Saving the Animals, One Elephant at a Time https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef17d22603e9b6567625c25/0f188367-89b5-42f8-bab0-31b03aabbe1a/Screen+Shot+2023-05-16+at+9.07.54+AM.png Selected Work The Top Chef Oral History https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef17d22603e9b6567625c25/3eca7540-77d9-4b0b-a715-b6de000c09c9/Screen+Shot+2024-04-15+at+9.44.37+AM.png Selected Work Hollywood Offered Jake Johnson a Path to Mega-Stardom, He Chose a Regular Life https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef17d22603e9b6567625c25/1750889243949-36C6BV7EOJYMFDS925UP/Photographed%2Bby%2BAlex%2BBerliner_R052825A-0226.jpg Selected Work The Producer Roundtable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef17d22603e9b6567625c25/5472026c-cdf4-4fbe-bf85-85df32be7996/Guy_Fieri_David_Needleman_F89_embed_2021-1619561874.jpg Selected Work Guy Fieri, Fired Up https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef17d22603e9b6567625c25/c7f4676b-15d8-4076-a820-d16f9e02e4b1/Screen+Shot+2024-04-15+at+10.19.37+AM.png Selected Work Alex Edelman Knows There’s Power in the Third Rail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef17d22603e9b6567625c25/1681951279226-E6ZVADWNVPCNQJ076GZK/Screen%2BShot%2B2023-04-19%2Bat%2B5.35.57%2BPM.jpg Selected Work Carol Burnett, Like Her Comedy, Is Still Timeless https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef17d22603e9b6567625c25/dac89326-bc1c-4302-8d99-9cab8798c4e2/Screen+Shot+2024-04-15+at+9.47.34+AM.png Selected Work Rachel Maddow Won't Abandon You https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef17d22603e9b6567625c25/35ed3c66-1a1d-4246-ae2b-ab99e72461e9/Sam_Richardson.jpeg Selected Work Sam Richardson Was Always Ready for Primetime https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef17d22603e9b6567625c25/1657906650170-ZKZQD0H4O1UF1S9MAM03/0.jpg Selected Work Andy Cohen Knows Where Reality TV Needs to Evolve — And Where It Doesn’t https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef17d22603e9b6567625c25/1657906542958-THUH917V2MJG5GHVT1FW/IMG-4737.jpg Selected Work Emmy Rossum's Obsession https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef17d22603e9b6567625c25/1673979890284-LFMF2W5DH6036VWWTAQ2/Screen%2BShot%2B2023-01-17%2Bat%2B10.24.06%2BAM.jpg Selected Work Reese Witherspoon and Lauren Neustadter Are Doing Just Fine Without the Boys Club https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef17d22603e9b6567625c25/6751607b-c7a1-43ba-b906-192b7b930d70/Screen+Shot+2024-04-15+at+9.43.17+AM.png Selected Work Gus Van Sant, The Mellowest Man in Hollywood https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef17d22603e9b6567625c25/1681954666649-DR22R4L42ATC2EY2JGNV/Screen%252BShot%252B2023-04-19%252Bat%252B1.05.02%252BPM.jpg Selected Work How Ray Romano Liberated Himself From “Sitcom Guy” Status https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef17d22603e9b6567625c25/bc16de2a-90c8-4dd4-88f1-d1d2475cb305/Lisa_Vanderpump.jpeg Selected Work Lisa Vanderpump, Inc. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef17d22603e9b6567625c25/d59d45b2-5e0a-4086-8df9-21870d84eb9a/Paul_Feig.jpeg Selected Work A Conversation With Paul Feig https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef17d22603e9b6567625c25/b96e4806-920e-4e5a-b319-e9b6b836fc6c/phoebewallerbridgecover.jpg Selected Work The Future Is Phoebe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef17d22603e9b6567625c25/03e46675-feae-42df-8219-91f893ee97dc/homelandcover.jpg Selected Work Homeland Declassified https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef17d22603e9b6567625c25/9e1c37d7-23c3-4a04-8247-5a38f352d9dc/thr_issue_24_peak_food_tv_cover.jpg Selected Work Peak Food TV https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef17d22603e9b6567625c25/16a3c001-e044-4159-a459-bab1d4d6e3a0/brentmontgomerycover.jpg Selected Work This Guy Made $360M in Reality TV — Now He Wants Real Money https://www.mikeyoconnell.com/about daily 0.75 2025-06-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef17d22603e9b6567625c25/4e0140e5-8c9c-4083-9fde-344412c96320/Mikey_OConnell+%282%29.jpg About - About A writer and longtime staffer at The Hollywood Reporter, I cover the sundry personalities who populate the entertainment industry. I enjoy liking things before they become popular and then immediately disavowing them, devote too much mental bandwidth to fantasy football and dream of throwing it all away to become a sandwich artist. (Like, a real one.) https://www.mikeyoconnell.com/contact daily 0.75 2022-04-28