BRIAN GAUDET - Manning Selvage & Lee, Washington, DC
BRIAN GAUDET - Manning Selvage & Lee, Washington, DC
Howard Stern has always leveraged his family to create the bipolar aura
of wildman on the radio vs. family guy at home. His separation at age 45
from his college sweetheart calls all of this into question.
Stern needs to take on his separation the same way he has taken on all
the other private parts of his life ... but give the family a rest
Given his resources and his celebrity, he should enjoy a very public
mid-life crisis and take us along for the ride! He should live out the
fantasies that he has talked about for years by dating other celebrities
- and telling us about it on our daily commutes. To do anything less
would be unfaithful to his nature.
JAMES LAKE - Cohn & Wolfe, Washington, DC
Howard Stern is a ’shock jock’ - no ifs, ands or buts about it. He
shouldn’t try and change his already well-established persona or try and
get people to think he’s something he’s not. What he can continue to be
is honest and straightforward with his audience about his separation
from his wife.
However, out of respect for his family, he should try and move beyond
discussions of this aspect of his personal life, separating it from his
public career as soon as possible. As a good parent, he should continue
to show remorse for the devastation that a divorce places on the family
and strive to be a good father. Howard Stern has made a good life being
Howard Stern; he shouldn’t try and change it now.
