Alfred Joseph Benza is an American gossip columnist and television host.
He has two children named Roxy and Rocco. Associated With. He has played himself in various series, including Family Guy and Saturday Night Live.
During college Benza began writing for Newsday and was soon hired full-time as a gossip columnist for that paper and eventually for the New York Daily News. It was as a gossip columnist that he began appearing on E! Entertainment Television’s The Gossip Show in the mid-1990s.
This led to appearances on talk shows such as Geraldo, Hard Copy, The Montel Williams Show, The Maury Povich Show, and various other television talk shows. He was later fired from the New York Daily News by editor Pete Hamill.
In 2002, he starred in P.S. Your Cat is Dead!, a comedy film, starring and directed by Steve Guttenberg.
