Seth Goldman, raised in

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, is an American entertainment reporter and producer, who is the host of NBC's "Entertainment Buzz", and appears daily on television, online and on cell phones.

Biography

Career

Prior to his entertainment career, Goldman attended

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, where he graduated from the Newhouse School of Communications. He began his career as a news writer at

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before moving to

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, also as a news writer. In 2003, Goldman was a traffic reporter for the Metro Traffic & Weather channel. And in 2004, Goldman became one of the first hires at the newly created NBC Mobile, a cell phone TV service that is available on most of the national cell phones companies. He later became the NBC Mobile Entertainment Reporter. In 2006, Goldman was the first entertainment reporter assigned to cover the

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specifically for the cell phone. Since then, he has appeared on the red carpet at other major award shows and has interviewed some of the biggest stars in the entertainment world. "Entertainment Buzz" is seen on NBC Mobile, MSNBC.com, the NBC affiliates, the NBC O&O affiliates, iVillage, and on television, on New York Nonstop, Time Warner Cable, and Daily Connection. Seth has also delivered entertainment news on weekends on MSNBC.

Beauty pageants

He hosted the

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pageant, along with co-host, Miss Teen USA 2004, Shelley Hennig. He was a co-host with

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, Crystle Stewart at the

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Preliminaries. Stewart and Goldman also hosted both the

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and the

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finals. Goldman lives in

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References

In Which Entertainment Journalist Seth Goldman Realizes His Work Is Cultural Cancer
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