Date: 2007-02-15
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Howard Stern has become engaged to his long time girlfriend Beth Ostrosky in time for Valentine's Day. Stern made his future wife strip down before proposing according to his radio show. This will be the second marriage for Stern and first for Ostrosky. Howard Allan Stern (born January 12, 1954) is an American radio and TV personality, media mogul, humorist, actor, and author. Howard Stern currently hosts The Howard Stern Show four days a week (Monday-Thursday) on Howard 100, a Sirius Satellite Radio station. On Fridays, Stern airs archive material under the name 'Mastertape Theatre.' Replays of the show can be heard throughout the day on Howard 100 and various times on Howard 101.
(Media-Newswire.com) - Howard Stern has become engaged to his long time girlfriend Beth Ostrosky in time for Valentine's Day. Stern made his future wife strip down before proposing according to his radio show. This will be the second marriage for Stern and first for Ostrosky. Howard Allan Stern (born January 12, 1954) is an American radio and TV personality, media mogul, humorist, actor, and author. Howard Stern currently hosts The Howard Stern Show four days a week (Monday-Thursday) on Howard 100, a Sirius Satellite Radio station. On Fridays, Stern airs archive material under the name 'Mastertape Theatre.' Replays of the show can be heard throughout the day on Howard 100 and various times on Howard 101.
Howard Stern was born into a Jewish American family in Roosevelt, Long Island, New York. His father Ben Stern owned a Manhattan recording studio, where Howard developed an interest in broadcasting as a child. Although both his parents are Jewish, Stern has long claimed on his show to be a "half-Jew" (the other half being Italian). This claim is apparently a running gag, as Stern sometimes mutters Yiddish phrases on the air which he claims to be Italian phrases. Stern's Hebrew name is Tzvi; his paternal grandparents, Froim and Anna (Gallar) Stern and maternal grandparents, Sol and Esther (Reich) Schiffman, were Austro-Hungarian Jews who immigrated to America at about the same time.
Stern often said that his parents verbally "abused" him as a child, which was corroborated during a 1990 broadcast when he played old family recordings, many of which have become oft-played soundbites, including remarks such as "I told you not to be stupid, you moron" and "Shut up! Sit down!" being screamed at a 7-year-old Howard. These old recordings were later used in a parody commercial for the "Ben Stern School of Broadcasting", which specialized in producing self-loathing and emotionally disturbed workaholic media leaders. Stern said his mother ran her house with "the intensity of Hitler" and that his father often called him a moron. However, he has also said that such exaggerated claims were part of his schtick and that his parents were actually warm, loving and supportive.
Stern attended Roosevelt Junior High School, where he was supposedly one of the few white students in a predominantly African American school. During a 1992 special, Howard Stern's former gym teacher ('Mr. Chestnut') mentioned that the school's student body was 60% black, indicating Stern's claims to be an exaggeration. When Stern's family moved in 1969, he transferred to South Side High School, where he graduated in 1972 . In 1976, he received a bachelor's degree in communications from Boston University, carrying a 3.8 GPA and also working (before being fired) as a volunteer at the campus radio station WTBU. Stern now funds a scholarship at Boston University.
The self-proclaimed "King of All Media" (a humorous reference to Michael Jackson's appellation "The King of Pop") has been dubbed a shock jock for his highly controversial use of scatological, sexual and racial humor. Stern has said that the show was never about shocking people, but primarily intended to offer his honest opinions on a gamut of issues (ranging from world affairs to problems among his own staff). Though controversial, he is one of the highest-paid radio personalities in the United States and the most fined personality in radio broadcast history.
He is best known for his national radio show, which for many years was syndicated on FM radio stations (and a few AM stations) throughout the United States until his last terrestrial radio broadcast on December 16, 2005. He began broadcasting on the subscription-based Sirius satellite radio service on January 9, 2006.
In addition to radio, Stern has ventured into publishing, television, feature films, and music. He has written two books, Private Parts, which he adapted into a film, and Miss America. Stern's television endeavors include a variety show on New York City's WWOR-TV, a nightly E! show documenting his radio broadcasts, a similar CBS program that competed with Saturday Night Live for a time, "Howard On-Demand" for digital cable subscribers in various markets, and Son of the Beach, a parody of Baywatch for FX which Stern executive produced.
In 2006, Howard Stern was elected into Time Magazine's "Time 100: The People who shape our world" and was ranked #7 in Forbes Magazine's 2006 annual Celebrity 100.
On February 13, 2007 Stern became engaged to his long-time girlfriend, model Beth Ostrosky.
Source: ( Biography ) Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_stern