TV Anchor Resigns Over Wet T-Shirt Video
Jan. 20 -- Former anchorwoman Catherine Bosley became the lead story in Youngstown, Ohio, when a revealing video of her sexy vacation stunt came back to haunt her.
Bosley said she had never even seen a wet T-shirt contest before she joined one in a Key West, Fla., bar nearly a year ago. The former newswoman, who had anchored the news at WKBN-TV in Youngstown, Ohio, for a decade, says she was celebrating life when she entered the contest, but she says she wishes she would have found another way to rejoice.
"I've done daredevil type things, but to think I would do something like that that put a dent in my own integrity, it was kind of hard," Bosley said on ABCNEWS' Good Morning America. "It was a thrill for the moment. I got caught up in the moment and that was the problem."
Bosley said she entered the contest, with her husband by her side, because she had just found out that she would survive a serious lung disease she had been diagnosed with. Bosley, who also underwent open heart surgery a few years ago, said she wanted to enter the contest in order to express her freedom and her love of life.
The former anchor said she regretted her actions, which included the removal of her top during the stunt, the next day. But her vacation celebration didn't come back to haunt her for nearly a year, when video of her topless stunt surfaced earlier this month.
When news of the footage spread, Bosley resigned.
"I let down myself, I let down the community," Bosley said. "I see it as something that was very personal and turned into something that the world saw that was never intended to be like that," she said.
Bosley's former news director posted a letter on the station's Web site, saying "I will not compromise the integrity and professionalism of WKBN News. I did not sign on to run a tabloid news department, and the employees of WKBN did not sign on to work at one."
Bosley says she believes her actions wouldn't have turned her station into a tabloid news outlet, but she says she believes the buzz over the video wouldn't have died down if she remained in her former position.
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