As I told you on Friday, there’s apparently no truth to the rumors that NBC Universal exec Lauren Zalaznick, who built Bravo and oversees Oxygen and more there, has been negotiating for a top job at MTV.
After the Postcard ran, Jim Citrin, the prominent Spencer Stuart recruiter who was spotted lunching with Zalaznick at Michael’s (and thus fed the rumor mill, unintentionally) popped me an email. “Too funny,” he wrote about the speculation. At their lunch, he and Zalaznick, who hadn’t known each other and simply wanted to meet, discovered a family tie. Says Citrin: “Her older sister Barbara was my high school classmate!”–Patricia Sellers