KTLA anchor found dead in motel

OMFG !!!!!!!!!!! I'M WATCHING KTLA NEWS RIGHT NOW!!!!!

He was really annoying at times but he was kinda funny.

1975 - 2018

He was a weekend anchor.

I thought he was funny too. Had a wife and daughter.

He was having a nooner at Daze Inn?

Sad and sordid. Poor kids.

I need details.

A post holiday middle of the week nooner at a Days Inn in Glendale.

Don't get no sadder than that.

Um. Sounds more like Blaze Inn than Daze Inn.

Asian wife...

They think he ODed. Won't know until toxicology report is finished. Don't actually know if it was a nooner or an overnight that went past checkout.

One hour seems too short for an OD. Like they checked in at 12pm and then at 1:15 he was dead.

Kevin Spacey's counter-offensive against the media gains steam.

Afternoon delight, indeed.

Crackhead.

I feel bad for him since he was just trying to enjoy himself in private, regardless of the drugs and sex possibly. It was probably supposed to be a few hours of fun, and now he'll always be known for that scene.

That scene is still pretty taboo, sadly his family will suffer the consequences and embarrassment.

How many here have had him?

....

Wasn't he married to an oriental whore?

OD during the day at a motel with a male "friend".

..... So young .....

Ah, shaddup

R21 they did not even identify him as a "friend" just a male person who was with him.

Imagine having to report on your friend and colleague dying.

At least the friend got him help and didn’t leave.

He seemed like a good guy.

Gosh....Watched him many times. he was a great anchor and total ham on air. He had great chemistry with his co anchor. Last time I watched him, he looked much thinner. So sad as he was funny and a breath of fresh air. Not bad to look at either.

BDF

Doing drugs at noon? Wow.

What a way to go.

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This story does nothing to debunk the oft told theory that closeted men frequently marry undemanding Asian women.

I'm starting to give the side eye to all men who marry Easterners.

Not all.

White man / Asian Wife

[quote]OMFG !!!!!!!!!!! I'M WATCHING KTLA NEWS RIGHT NOW!!!!!

That's probably what killed him, R1.

What's a "nooner?"

KTLA is reporting the facts without flinching, even as his colleagues cry.

Some of you making a big deal about it happening at noon need to remember that he was a morning anchor. Apparently, he had anchored the news yesterday morning. So his workday probably started at about 2 or 3 a.m. He probably went to the motel after his work shift ended. For him, noon was like most people's evening. (Not that it makes it any less sad and sordid, but ...)

I guess the rent boy had to call the EMTs?

What a way to go, in a shabby hotel with a hooker.

Well we don't know if it was a hooker. Do we? I'm not a hooker, just a slut who has thrilled to some cheap motel hookups with other respectable me who are also pigs.

Recent Trip Advisor review of the scene of the crime:

Dirty Dump Dec 13, 2018 I found the Days Inn to be the perfect location, just 1 mile from a work travel location! PERFECT I thought. When you enter the lobby, it looks and smells like something from the 1980's. Then you walk to the elevators and it makes me wish I had a jar of alcohol wipes as everything is dirty and dingy. Then once in the room, oh my gosh, old, broken, run down. How can Wyndham who I trusted as a company associated with quality, allow itself to be associated with this dump. If youre looking for convenience and dont care about cleanliness then this is the place for you.

I guess you can add "calling the EMTs" to the difference between hiring an escort and hooking up with a hustler or closeted trick.

[quote]What's a "nooner?"

Can someone give r35 a 'tutorial'?

A podcast with Alec Mapa and Calpernia Addams, R35.

[quote]Don't think he was there for the Day Spa....

It's a given there was a nacreous layer of permacum, R40.

R33 Sorry but I worked with a lot of black women who said that black men do it as well.

yelp

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The details surrounding his death are highly suspect. I wonder if any more information will be revealed publicly after police conduct their investigation or will it remain private to protect his family and KTLA? Drugs and/or sex are really the only plausible reasons for a local resident to be visiting a motel during the day without his spouse or family in tow.

I guess the other guy wasn't his dealer because he'd run and wouldn't call 911.

Was Allison Mack involved?

Good point R49.

r16, you amoeba. life is more about getting off.

It's gonna be fent. He bought some oxy or heroin from a dealer, and it was fentanyl instead.

I'll bet $50 on it.

when you're married with kids you don't fuck over your family and kids by a "few hours of fun" in a seedy motel. you act like a goddamned man and have your fun with your wife or get a divorce so you can live life as a big whore.

The life of a big whore is the life for me.

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Maybe he and his wife had an understanding and that's how he chose to scratch that itch. Would've been fine except for the dying part.

I think r49 was right. According to this reporting (see link), the "friend" really went above and beyond to try and resuscitate him. They were likely either drug buddies or drug and fuck buddies. I want to know if he was found fully clothed or in any state of undress.

[quote]when you're married with kids you don't fuck over your family and kids by a "few hours of fun" in a seedy motel. you act like a goddamned man and have your fun with your wife or get a divorce so you can live life as a big whore.

R54=Chris Watts, regretful.

The life of a closeted gay man doesn't seem like much fun. Why get innocent women and children involved in your sordid life of being on the down low. Do not marry a woman, unless you marry a lesbian who is in on everything.

As a gay man, I'd never get involved with a 'straight' married man. A friend was involved with a few, everything was so sleazy and clandestine. At least they didn't have to meet in some fleabag hotel. My friend has his own apartment, the married men would go there. The' drama', it was laughable and repetitious, none of the situations seemed hot. I don't get the appeal.

Perhaps if you need the self-created drama, then go for it, otherwise, stay with your own, 100% out gay men.

Wasn't "Soft-Butch Sous Chef" Asian...ish??

She gay. Prolly OD'd on poppers.

Didn’t look very healthy - heart attack, drugs, stroke, pnp, etc. I’m sure all played a role. Feel bad for the kid.

r57 is someone to avoid in life.

How sad! I bet it was depression, too bad he didn't realize all of the options available to a frustrated news anchor!

On the morning of the shooting in Thousand Oaks, I spotted him in the background of the newscast I was watching (it was just a live feed of reporters waiting around for a statement from the sheriff I think). He seemed propped up by something, maybe it was just adrenaline, but it jumped out of my TV.

Yes, r61– sort of Pacific Islander-ish, IIRC

.. but more to the point, the wife of the victim of “SBSC” was Asian, r61

A heroin thing? It's a good reason to be going to a crappy hotel at noon.

From the article:

"Glendale firefighters responded to the scene and found Burrous, 43, inside a room and not breathing, Suttles said. CPR was administered and he was taken to a hospital where he died. Police said his death is being investigated as a possible overdose.

The original call to police stated Burrous may have overdosed, but detectives will await the Los Angeles County coroner’s office report for a determination of the cause of death, Suttles said."

Current Coroner Status

Case Number 2018-09806

Case Status INV. COMPLETE

Body Status EXAM SCHEDULED

Gender MALE

Ethnicity CAUCASIAN

Place of Death HOSPITAL

Manner N/A

Investigator NAVARRO

Deputy Medical Examiner DR. UKPO

Cause A N/A

Cause B N/A

Cause C N/A

Cause D N/A

Knew I could trust the DL to be on this story. I always watch KTLA in the morning, and his schtick always irritated me. It was funny at first, but then he would go on and on...like he didn't know what a stopping point was, like he was obsessed with doing that behavior over the top. Very manic. I always kinda figured he was a coke addict, at the very least.

KTLA broke the story at the top of its 10PM newscast.

R58 I hope to God his friend called 911 right away. The fact is, a shot of narcan can revive someone in the snap of the fingers. If he held off on calling 911, the guilt would be crushing, because he could have been saved. I've seen it happen.

Tre scandell.

Even a tiny bit of fentanyl in that H you're snorting can mean lights out.

He seemed more manic in the last two weeks. I thought he was trying to get fired. He had absolutely no filter.

Nice of the rent boy to administer CPR.

mmmm....

fat fingers...he had a fat cock!

His friend could have ben a drug buddy if not a hook up. Very sad.

@chrisburrous

I hear you. We now have a whole tree at home of viewer ornaments. They serve as a reminder that we serve at their pleasure. You passed through our family and we will always remember your humor, kindness and spirit. Isn’t it incredible and as you say humbling how kind viewers are

I imagine dealers drop off the drugs, get their money and leave right away. They don't wait for you to start using.

pnp...duh

Mayor Eric Garcetti ‏ Verified account

@MayorOfLA

My heart breaks over the sudden loss of Chris Burrous, a fixture on TV screens across the city, always there with a smile and a story to help Angelenos get their day started. Our wishes to the whole @KTLA family, to his wife, daughter, and loved ones. Chris will be missed.

Sad. We never know the sadness at the heart of a seemingly perfect life. All that ambition hid some dark feelings.

Heart attack induced by poppers.

I wonder if the autopsy will show any signs of recent sexual activity.

Millions of men are having sex with men and women they are not married to and aren't destroying their families lives.

Knew people who knew him. By all accounts, a genuinely nice guy, very well liked.

Exactly, r89. Sometimes that's how they're keeping the marriage and family together.

He was Wof Blitzer's illuminati sacrifice!

what the fuck is up with all the anti-asian bigotry on this thread?

You new here, r93?

A Day's Inn? Are you freakin' kidding me? What are they paying their anchors at KTLA?

He was probably paying cash and who knows how often he did it. He probably had joint accounts with his wife, who would notice any sums of money going for hotel expenses on a credit card.

Outdoor access for multiple tops! duh!

They finished his autopsy, but have deferred the cause of death pending the tox report.

[quote] The male stayed at the scene and “quite honestly did a good job of trying to render aid,” according to Suttles.

It seems odd that they're not identifying (naming) the male friend.

Anybody here have a connection to the Glendale PD to find out what happened (whey they finally release the info) and let us know? Because I kind of doubt they'll want to make it public, for the family's sake.

R32 lol at the idea of Asian women being "undemanding." Maybe sexually undemanding or tolerant of bad sex in exchange for the privilege of a white spouse, but that's just a guess.

Maybe it’s another anchor or reporter at KTLA, r99.

I volunteer to console Mark Mester in private.

First report, GPD:

R94, no, I am not new. But open and blatant racism is always shocking.

[quote] The person he was with, who Suttles said “appears to be a friend,” was already administering aid when they arrived, the sergeant said.

Not being named by the police makes me think the apparent "friend" is not a drug dealer or at least not anyone with a known criminal record. It doesn't even say that they held him or took him in for further questioning. It's like they're providing the guy some kind of courtesy to get things in order.

You're an idiot, frau r104. We're gay men who know all about white gays marrying Asian women. Take yourself to twat.com where you 're in your depth.

[quote] I volunteer to console Mark Mester in private.

Dibs on Doug Kolk!

Filthy Days Inns are perfect for self-loathing sluts who want to feel "dirty" in porn-set surroundings.

R105. That's a police media release, not a report. The report will have names and all other details.

R106 Please, we're dying to learn what you know all about. Our chins are resting on our palms, elbows propped and eyes glistening.

KTLA VP of News:

@jasonrball

Last Thursday, @chrisburrous sent me this photo so I’d know he was outside my office waiting for me. I am so sad that that will never happen again. Rest In Peace, my friend.

I looked up the hotel and it initially doesn't look so bad - not the seedy dingy motel you may be thinking of, but mostly terrible reviews across the board. It looks to be about $100 a night. I'm pretty sure Glendale isn't "that bad" but I don't know the city as well as I used to. Some recent reviews:

This place is disgusting!!! Days Inn/Wyndham should be ashamed to associate their name with this property. It is old, smelly, moldy, and just down right nasty. To charge over $100 per night is robbery. I'm seriously scared to sleep in the bed. Anyone rating this hotel with more then one star is staying here free or being paid for their review. If I had not arrived so late I would leave.

I found the Days Inn to be the perfect location, just 1 mile from a work travel location! PERFECT I thought. When you enter the lobby, it looks and smells like something from the 1980's. Then you walk to the elevators and it makes me wish I had a jar of alcohol wipes as everything is dirty and dingy. Then once in the room, oh my gosh, old, broken, run down. How can Wyndham who I trusted as a company associated with quality, allow itself to be associated with this dump. If youre looking for convenience and dont care about cleanliness then this is the place for you.

I feel sorry for the daughter. It’s hard enough losing your father when you’re that young, let alone having to deal with the public scrutiny and speculation.

Well, let’s hope he only paid by the hour R112.

You can find thousands of shitty reviews of every hotel in the world. Try one.

I'm sure, R115. I'm saying, it's not a drug den in inglewood with hookers on the corner, but it's certainly no prize either. it looks like a truly average cheap motel.

The thinnest coverage has been from, funnily enough, The Daily Mail...

R112 Maybe the seediness adds to the thrill, or perhaps the front desk there is less observant or somewhat ignorant.

I noticed in the one report, it mentions how all the first responders on the scene immediately recognized him, saying something like, "Everyone knows Chris."

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As long as Steve Kuzj is safe.

Strange story. Do we think he was just starting out and made a rookie mistake? Or a longer-term habit that finally caught up with him?

[quote] It's like they're providing the guy some kind of courtesy to get things in order.

It also goes along way to encourage any future people in this situation to stay and help.

Just like before Good Samaritan laws, people used to not help victims of crimes/accidents because they were afraid they'd be sued.

[quote]A Day's Inn? Are you freakin' kidding me? What are they paying their anchors at KTLA?

He's not going to go to a really nice, well known hotel where someone might recognise him. Besides, he needs to save money for drugs.

[quote]pnp...duh

Millennial with his trendy acronyms.

I'm not sure what five-star resorts you think people stay at for quickie, drug-fueled, extramarital sex, but there are famous men with millions of dollars who cheat on their wives in hotels a lot worse than Days Inn. Especially in Glendale which is centrally located.

What was on his Ipad?

Anchors Aweigh!

Heartbreak Hotel

I Can’t Get No Satisfaction

You Really Got Me

Suspicious Minds

Keep a Knockin'

Born under a bad sign

Mama's Getting Hot And Papa's Getting Cold

^^^^^ ipod

[quote]the privilege of a white spouse

Good lord.

R121 I thought he looked older than 43. So I am going with the "finally caught up with him" option.

any pic of his wife? boyish looking? flat chested?

R115 Read the reviews. They are almost all like that. There are also photos that show it is pretty run down for a corporate motel like that.

Also he probably did not make that much. It says he lived in Porter Ranch which is pretty far from the KTLA studio in Hollywood. That Glendale location is a little out of the way home and closer to Hollywood. than Porter Ranch. Maybe his friend worked at Disney or Dreamworks or some other place in the area. It kind of in the business district.

Men who who are really into Asian women are either gay or pedophiles. And almost every Asian women I've known is a shrew.

People who are “shocked!” to learn of the tendency of white bi men and Asian women to marry need to go back to iVillage.

It’s an old story.

Why, it happens, I have no idea. But happen it does.

Speaking personally, I’ve multiple White gay friends from college (two were regular hookups) who married Asian women. Since Asian women were only a smallish percentage of my class, the trend was noticeable and striking.

Who knows? Maybe the women were strongly inclined toward a White guy as a protective buffer amidst the US’s otherwise anti-Asian bias? Maybe the guys also are roughly Kinsey 4s; afraid of being perceived as gay, but not so turned on by women as to actively pursue female partners until, comes time to marry for business/social reasons, one ardently leaps into his lap. At least something like tht seems to have happened among my acquaintances.

Whatever the reason, I’m surprised so many people on a gay board are oblivious.

it's a mid life crisis.

Burrous and his wife Mai met when both were journalists at KGET in Bakersfield. Interracial marriages happen frequently out here in the big city. We marry co-workers, high school sweethearts, friends of friends, etc. Yet some of you act like Burrous ordered her from some mail order catalog or that she married him for "the priviledge of a white spouse." Despicable.

he isn't handsome but the wife is ugly.

His wife, Mai, appeared in a recent Burrous' Bites segment.

The married guy that I'm currently fucking, has an asian wife.

Oh, and he's a bottom.

She's not ugly, ffs.

Yes, we've all known the closeted white guy with the Asian wife, but the racist spew here is ridiculous. Some of you are going out of your way to be as racist as possible, and it's not just joking or trolling.

I watched a few seconds of the clip at r137. Yep, he's gay...or was.

Same here, R140.

[quote] It’s an old story. Why, it happens, I have no idea. But happen it does.

It's because asian women are the only ones who will put up with having a closet case as a husband. As long as he's white, they don't care. He gets a beard, and she gets mixed race kids. Win-win, I guess.

And yes, most of them know... even before they get married.

[quote]@MayorOfLA My heart breaks over the sudden loss of Chris Burrous, a fixture on TV screens across the city, always there with a smile and a story to help Angelenos get their day started. Our wishes to the whole @KTLA family, to his wife, daughter, and loved ones. Chris will be missed.

What he DIDN'T say: "Thank God it happened in Glendale and not in LA!"

Fuck off, racist pigs at r132 and r141.

Seriously, you seem like miserable human beings.

The anchor is better off than you.

DL declared bisexuality a lie back in 2003, r133. It's in the charter somewhere, next to the articles of impeachment for improperly drained pasta.

So he met one of his gay fuckbuddies for afternoon sex, they did drugs, and he od’d?

Gay reporter Tom Wait on CBS 2 had the story last night after some of the details came out, and he kept mentioning the “sensitive” nature of the report.

Tom is very fuckable by the way. All those gay KCBS anchors are hot. Peter Daut, Chris Holmstrum.

R135, You already seem to be acquainted with 'ugly'; but that lady is not ugly. And the man isn't attractive or unattractive, he's decomposing, which is what will happen to you and all us one day.

I wonder if he hooked up with the server at 1'13" in R37's clip?

Bet there's a lot more to this story.

[quote]he probably did not make that much. It says he lived in Porter Ranch which is pretty far from the KTLA studio

You have to have money to buy a house in Porter Ranch. Even with the gas leak, homes are in the high 800k and 900k and most are well over a million. Plus, using the 118 to the 5 is a quick route to Hollywood.

Watched the segment at r137. Both he and the wife seem gay. Gonna have to try that restaurant now.

Fuck the racists in this thread. Fuck racists everywhere. They're the lowest vermin, and isn't it ironic that they're the unwitting inferior members of the human race?

I worked with a really hot mechanical engineer and got a bi-vibe from him AND his wife was Vietnamese! I did not come to DL back then, DARN!,

........

Meet up with a fuck buddy in a dumpy hotel, take drugs, have sex and maybe bring bedbugs home. Win win win.

I worked in a Asia-centric field in academia and lived in Asia. The white guys who sought Asian girlfriends/wives did so because Asian women are more tolerant-- or more resigned to-- men cheating on them with other women. I don't recall one case of the guy using an Asian woman as cover for gay trysts. That doesn't mean it didn't happen, but it seems to be more about getting away with being an asshole to women.

[quote]Outdoor access for multiple tops! duh!

This guy’s Grindr name was “Glendale CumDump”.

[quote] A post holiday middle of the week nooner at a Days Inn in Glendale.

He worked on the weekends, so middle of the week would be like his days off.

Has Steve Kmetko called his agent yet??!!

I bet he'd been at Days Inn more than once.

I am one of the posters accused of being "racist" simply because I repeated a well known stereotype. I was not intending to demean the widow, I was just stating what is said on this and many other gossipy forums.

For the record, I think she is quite attractive in the wedding photo.

Although he's primarily known as the weekend morning anchor, he works throughout the week both as a field reporter, and often "subs" for the weekday morning anchors when they're on vacation. He was on the early show yesterday morning.

I don't live in L.A., so don't know who this guy was, but looking at R161's clip, he seemed like a great guy and perfect for the kind of job he was doing. I feel bad for his family as well as his co-workers who are probably all devastated right now.

KTLA recently extended the AM News to noon, an additional hour. Until a couple of years ago, it ended at 10AM, so that probably took a toll as well.

Well, which one of you bitches was it? Spill! Whhhhhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

R101, I’m laughing at that, too. Also when Slavic women are characterized as being submissive ideal wives.

I’m guessing people who think that are not familiar with Asian and Slavic women IRL.

The Asian women can be shrews, but the engineers at my job who married them tended to be Big Weenies.

No one has yet claimed his body.

[quote] No one has yet claimed his body.

So it's still available? Where do I pick it up?

Someone in the Daily Mail comments noted the motel was an extended stay operation.

Trouble at home?

R169 I would say more trouble away from home

The guy he was with may have been staying there for an extended period of time R169.

How much do you make a year as just a weekend anchor in a major market like la.

77k says payscale.

When I clicked on it through google, it said $77k. Then it changed to $85k.

He was really cute in a sort of lovable teddy bear sort of way. KTLA Morning News is the best local morning news block. I would assume most Angelenos have watched him at some point.

MiguelA, Los Angeles, United States, about 6 hours ago (DM)

He was acting a little odd on-air lately: inappropriate comments and laughter, etc.

[quote] I would assume most Angelenos have watched him at some point.

Not me. I gave up watching local TV news over 10 years ago. It became too ridiculous.

^ Same here. I wouldn't have been able to pick him out of a lineup.

One report from his own station first called him a "friend"and then later referred to him as the "companion." -- LA Times comment

Burrous helped expand “Morning News” to a seven-day program, anchoring weekends and covering breaking news on weekday mornings, the station said. -- LA Times

When did he have a day off?

Opioid overdose with a drug buddy in attendance. If it was a hookup, I think they would have gone to a slightly better venue. Drug use at that location makes more sense.

The male friend stayed prob due to the fact that it was his motel room and the dead anchor was a visitor.

I don’t think they fucked but who knows. Let’s wait and see before jumping to any stupid conclusions.

[quote]Let’s wait and see before jumping to any stupid conclusions.

New to Datalounge?

[quote]KTLA Morning News is the best local morning news block.

KTLA pretty much invented the "morning show news" format back in the early 90s.

A GoFundMe account? Why?

Working those ludicrous hours, when you have to be alert and on the air at 4:30 or 5 in the morning, is probably conducive to drug use. I'm sure coffee doesn't always do the trick.

He should have quit and done gay porn for his mental health. It worked for two news people already

Any celebrity with a well known addiction, and any celebrity who has cheated on his or her spouse with a member of the populace has spent time somewhere comparable or worse than a Days Inn.

[quote] Any celebrity with a well known addiction, and any celebrity who has cheated on his or her spouse with a member of the populace has spent time somewhere comparable or worse than a Days Inn.

I'm going to keep this mind when I'm feeling jealous looking through my Architectural Digest.

"Populace" is suddenly popular on DL.

Here's my bet: I say the person who called 911 will turn out to be another on air personality, probably someone at KTLA.

r160 DL is the only place I've ever seen this stereotype harped on. Sounds to me like a bunch of whining old gay pigs who jump at any opportunity to cut down another race of women for "stealing" their men. Wait, I didn't mean to stereotype. I'm just stating what is said on this and many other gossipy forums.

The sorts of guys who marry Asian women are generally not the sorts of guys who make gay hearts flutter.

So we sure they were fucking? So maybe the guy was the one staying there long term and the news guy was just there to visit him and do drugs with him. No sex?

How do we know sex is involved?

Judging by the fawning replies in that recent amateur porn video thread with the obese bald guy, I'm not sure where the standards for gay men lie anymore. R193

Long term doesn't mean there are not one night stays.

"Due to the sensitive nature of the incident" = dildos AND drugs.

Poor kid. I wonder what the mom is gonna tell the kid about how the dad died and the circumstances.

Just found out tonight that he used to be on Channel 11 here in NYC. He left around 2011/2012 to go out to L.A., so they paid tribute to him tonight on the 10 o'clock news.

This is a lousy time to use street drugs, people are dropping like flies. If I was a junkie, I’d be scared straight by fentanyl.

It might have been a sex act gone wrong... asphyxiation or some type of S&M scenario.

Plowed into oblivion

True, R201, kind of like what happened to David Carradine back in the day.

So when is the report due?

Usually, tox reports take six weeks, and then another week for the final write up.

I hope DL sleeps can dig out the dirt as efficiently as we did with Aaron Hernandez story

I meant, dig out the facts...

Sleuths...

[quote]Exactly, [R89]. Sometimes that's how they're keeping the marriage and family together.

Your post makes no sense. People like this dude sure are destroying marriages, their own! It doesn't matter if they fuck single men and single women, they're screwing up their own lives. Their wives and their kids, especially if their kids are teens, do eventually find out about their double lives.

What drugs are you on?

R209 surprised you can type this with clutched pearls

[quote]The white guys who sought Asian girlfriends/wives did so because Asian women are more tolerant-- or more resigned to-- men cheating on them with other women.

What you mean is those white guys were racists and would tell you they had an Asian wife because the women are submissive and would allow them to fool around. That was very likely not the truth. It's an old stereotype and it's always been racist, and it has always been about loser white guys trying to make it seem like they had a bunch of side pieces because they were so hot, and you fell for it.

Re the closet married guys and the Asian wife - the wife always knows, but it gives them a controlling edge to the relationship.

I was molested.

Please, these Asian bitches care about one thing only- money. As long as she got his check to buy Louis Vuitton bags and every other tacky logo crap, he could have been fucking the family dog.

[quote] it has always been about loser white guys trying to make it seem like they had a bunch of side pieces because they were so hot, and you fell for it.

I didn't fall for anything. I watched what happened up close, when I was out socializing with the white guys and in private conversations with the Asian women who were my friends. At least in Japan, adultery is tolerated and it always has been. There's not much a woman can do about cheating in cultures where divorce carries a huge stigma and leaves divorced women with few legal protections. A lot of women believe that the white guys will treat them better than Asian men, but of course they don't.

Stop the hate and racism! My thoughts are with his family and his young daughter.

This isn't hate or racism we are just discussing why many gay men tend marry Asian women. Are we only allowed to discuss situations with white people? I don't understand...

R197 The sensitive nature is the Days Inn hotel aspect.

I always thought he was kinda cute and funny too He is of Italian descent I assumed he was straight since he was married and had a child (maybe the male with him was his dealer or friend)

The possible OD drug thing is kinda sad and shocking but not surprising a lot of white collar upper class well to do professional people can and do have addictions like drugs and alcohol.

I dated 2 white guys (1 was an actor and the other a stockbroker) older than me that both smoked pot secretly and also pot brownies.

i also dated a guy my age (20-something) that came from a wealthy family (both parents doctors) that had a secret cocaine habit (he said he only did it when he partied) i broke up with him when he almost OD on me one night...took him to the ER.

He said "you think you're better than me because your vice is legal and mine is not?" ( i like to drink alcohol booze hard liquor)

So addiction is not just of the poor and minorities.

I drink to forget...it helps me relax and unwind. I did smoke pot a few times in high school at weekend parties but that is it...no cocaine or any of the other stuff.

The racist ranting troll is tedious. Asian women are bitches, and lucky to even be here.

R219, you drink to forget what?

[quote] [R219], you drink to forget what?

I don't remember.

[quote][R33] Sorry but I worked with a lot of black women who said that black men do it as well.

Of course you [italic]had[/italic] to go there because someone referenced white guys. Eyeroll.

[quote]I'm sure, [R115]. I'm saying, it's not a drug den in inglewood with hookers on the corner, but it's certainly no prize either. it looks like a truly average cheap motel.

Considering the reviews and description of this particular Days Inn, the “drug den in Inglewood with hookers” may have been a step or two above.

R160: Pot. Kettle. You, and others like yourself, who defensively rant against [italic]the "RACIST!!" screaming Marys[/italic] likely have no problem screaming “Homophobia!” at a moment’s notice. Fuck off.

It would really be funny if the guy with him in the motel was Asian. But we know they have the micropeen.

[quote] I watched what happened up close, when I was out socializing with the white guys and in private conversations with the Asian women who were my friends.

Sure. I believe this about as much as I believe that you are an expert in Japanese divorce law.

But I do believe that you're someone who is so stupid that you think all Asians are Japanese, and that alleged close observation of these Asian women in social settings with coworkers reveals everything you would ever need to know about them, their lives, and their marriage.

I also fully believe that you're the kind of person who thinks that these Asian women are from countries where women have no legal rights, and that while they're in the United States, they are for some reason not under the jurisdiction of US divorce law, and therefore stuck when it comes to bad marriages.

[quote]So addiction is not just of the poor and minorities.

Of course not, but as you may have realized by now, Datalounge is full of people whose understanding of society and culture has not changed since 1983.

Do the Asian women still go for the eye surgery to look more white, or has that fad passed?

R226 because Majority of DLers is made up of dinosaurs who think they are still in the 80s 🤣😂

I make my living off the evening news Just give me something, something I can use People love it when you lose, they love dirty laundry

Well, I could've been an actor, but I wound up here I just have to look good, I don't have to be clear Come and whisper in my ear, give us dirty laundry

[quote]If you had the good fortune to know Chris or if he simply brought you a smile from the other side of your TV, I hope you will consider a donation.

You want me to tip him now?

R225, no one cares what you believe. What you believe is irrelevant to everyone but yourself.

If there is anything that you actually know and have facts to support, then please share that, if you like. But all this "I believe...," "I fully believe...," is sloppy and juvenile.

Your beliefs are your own business. Always keep it that way.

Funny that he's half Italian. Look up Anne Hathaway's Italian ex-bf Rafffaelle Follieri. They look amazingly similar.

I wonder if his father or his mother was the farmer.

As an LA anchor, he was probably making between $250K and $350K and would've been negotiated by an agent. Not 77K.

This morning, KTLA led off with a segment on Burrous Bites, and a profile on his wife, who was Asian-American, meaning American.

But they keep talking about how he respected his wife and did what she said, which was creepy.

R236, Allow me to translate:

Wife is a fucking psycho DRAGON LADY who, without any notice or provocation, could be regularly relied upon to go from dead calm to mouth foaming insane-in-the-membrane at the drop of a hat.

Wow. I understand better every day how Trump got elected.

I wish that the racist posters could include demographic data on themselves in the byline so that we could come back with some hateful generalizations based on their information.

I’m guessing that most of you racist misogynists are Eldergays, as am I, so I have some insight into what makes you what you are.

And I am guessing that you are deeply dissatisfied with your lives and embittered about a changing world that offers more people a shot at genuine happpiness and acceptance than you ever had.

I’m sorry about that.

But it’s no excuse for fanning the flames of hatred and fear that are raging across the entire nation.

Your racist posts lump you in with the Trump crowd whom I assume you otherwise rail against. Perhaps show your true colors and join Trump’s coalition of ignorance and fear.

You might find the acceptance there that has eluded you up to this sad point in your lives.

From yesterday:

@giovannimoujaes

A big thanks to @CNN for getting the @KTLA staff lunch today. We all wish Chris Burrous could have joined us in the meal.

@mester_mark

Thanks to @CNN for buying the @KTLA newsroom lunch today in honor of our late colleague #ChrisBurrous. Chris loved this newsroom and he loved his food

Now someone only needs to fade out and superimpose a photo of "ghost" Burrous at the KTLA staff lunch.

Stay in drugs, kids. Don’t do school.

I wonder what they got

Was he a bottom or top?

I really do feel bad for his family.

R238, Give it a rest, Uncle Fuss. Your armchair (and deranged) assessment of my embittered life and "demo" couldn't be more off the mark (31 yo, str8, married, NYC born & bred pac-asian female if it's any of your f'ing business) and frankly reeks of the same judgemental and hateful stereo-generalizations that you so grandly purport to loathe.

Feel the need to look lob any more inaccurate and loony generalizations my way, you elder putz? Bring it the fuck on cuz I will kick your hypocritical, holier than tho, bleeding-heart ass, you self-loathing mofo.

A drug den in Inglewood is not a step or two above Days Inn in Glendale. Within a half mile of the hotel is the wealthiest part of Glendale with multi-million dollar houses, like the two in Better Off Dead. Nicole Richie, Joel Madden, Jake Johnson, Eva Mendes, The Game, Annie Potts, and DL legends Vic Tayback and Don Knotts lived in the area.

Glendale is mostly middle class to wealthy.

Anyhow, the hotel he was found in is a known drug den for those who work in the area or live in the area.

It’s not a total shithole, but it’s definitely not a high end location.

We all should be heartbroken and have sympathy for his young daughter.

R246, why are you even here? Leave and take your smelly pussy with you.

RIP dude, and my sympathies to his poor family, they deserved better.

But you know what, all this opioid overdosing is getting dull. Jesus, what is the problem with these people.

[Quote] But you know what, all this opioid overdosing is getting dull. Jesus, what is the problem with these people.

The toxicology report has already been released, dude?

Poor wife & kids. One minute your husband/dad says “See you later” as he leaves for work. The next minute you get a text he’s dead of a probable OD in a motel room with a male friend. Bad enough he died suddenly, but the sleaze factor is off the charts.

Is there something particular about a drug overdose that would make it appear different right off the bat from a heart attack, or did they know it was a drug overdose based on what the friend told them? Like the guy took some drugs and had an immediate bad reaction?

r253, I would bet the cops notified the wife in person. That's not something you text.

An American Tragedy 😮

You’d be surprised how often on those murder shows that the husband or wife starts getting a bunch of texts from friends who heard it on tv or online before being notified.

This morning, they had on his make up artist who said one time he insisted she make up his hands to match his face. He would throw out the other anchors from the make up chair when it was his turn, and was very exacting about how he was done.

"Very high maintenance," she laughed

Sad for his wife and daughter.

r258 so, a bottom then?

Former KTLA weatherman, Jim Castillo-Phillips, has also sent condolences.

Pic of them with fellow newscasters, Liberte Chan and Lu Parker, at the KTLA Christmas party four years ago.

'Very high maintenance" = screaming queen.

Many Asian women don't have nefarious plans when marrying guys on the down low. many just don't have the 'gay filter" of Western women.

@erinmyers

Thank you to the City of Torrance for honoring Chris Burrous and his family during the @RoseParade it means so much to all of us @KTLA @KTLAMorningNews

The closet kills...................AGAIN!

Yikes, being found dead of an OD with your "special male friend"

Most embarrassing way to die if you are married with kids.

Was he taking the peen when he died?

He died a cliche. An L.A. closeted motel druggie cliche.

His humor was cliche too.

I miss the manly men of old.

I knew rough and tumble, rugged types who got into bar fights and had ripped ears and scars.

Now guys die of fentanyl overdoses with a dick in their closeted asses.

I blame it all on plastic baby bottles.

curious. asking for a friend....... is fentannyal, just dangerous if you are doing heroin? or can fentannyal also be mixed in with other drugs. like cociaine and oh my friend is asking now, can it be mixed in with meth? and you not know it? thanks

"Do not grieve or feel sorry for Chris. He lived for his passions, he died loving what he loved to do. We also should celebrate Chris's appetite for life and love and going beyond himself."

r270=" Don't cry for me Los Angeles, I died doing what I love. Sucking cock and doing drugs"

His last post to Facebook was a livestream from home on Christmas night, as his wife finished making (a fantastic-looking) dinner. His daughter shows off their Christmas trees and ornaments made for him by KTLA viewers over the years. His father wanders through at one point. It's sad and kinda difficult to watch (because of that very happy little girl) and yet, I couldn't look away. (grief porn)

[quote]It's sad and kinda difficult to watch

Make that impossible to watch - it says "Bad URL timestamp" when you click on the link (yet another reason to hate Facebook).

wow, just wow. very sad

[Quote] wow, just wow.

What next, R274? "SMDH"?

Basic.

Hmm. Apologies, R273.

I tried to watch the morning ktla show today but it was just too sad. They would cry and then we would cry.

Two things though. He wore a size 14 shoe. He was blaming one of his co-workers for giving him a cold.

If he mixed over the counter cold medicine with anything, it probably killed him.

That over the counter cold medicine is dangerous.

Size 14 shoe?

Dear Jeebus, why'd you have to kill such hot snatch?

[quote] Poor wife & kids. One minute your husband/dad says “See you later” as he leaves for work. The next minute you get a text he’s dead of a probable OD in a motel room with a male friend.

Do you honestly think that she didn't know?

Not only was he a flamer, but everyone who watched him on television, new that he was acting erratically in the past few weeks. The comments on this are all over the place.

She must have known that he was "on" something. And that he was having salacious hookups. Your partner is always the first to know.

He was terribly overrated, but he did pick an admirable Hollywood-style exit.

Oh, that poor sweet little girl! My heart breaks for her. The wife, too, of course.

Yeah, boo hoo.

The wife will inherit hundreds of thousands in life insurance money, plus whatever benefits he had from KTLA.

She's set for life, which is why she probably married him in the first place.

Wouldn’t an OD negate a life insurance policy? Almost like a suicide?

I feel bad for the kid. Bet she gets teased a lot at school after this.

Poor wife n kid. He should’ve been more responsible when having a family

R283, not likely at least in CA. If you pay 24 months of premium, you can commit suicide and the insurance will pay.

That Christmas day video on his facebook is just heartbreaking.

The home does not look like what i expected it would look like, its quite nice and unique.

I set my alarm to wake up and watch the KTLA morning news this morning...for Lynette Romero

Yes i too caught when she mentioned that he was a size 14 shoe.

I don't think he was gay...i never got that vibe...if anything maybe bi curious.

I doubt it was more than a drug overdose....he doesn't look like the hook up type.

And i also agree the last couple weeks, especially since Thanksgiving he was acting like he was high, on upper, lots of energy on air, i would even say a bit manic.

If he was making 250K or so, he probably had life insurance at 2 or 3 times that amount. So the wife might make $750k off of it. Hopefully, they would have had insurance to cover the mortgage, too, but that's not a given. She'll come out okay but not "set for life" with a daughter to raise and college to pay for. Did she work, still?

R246, the generalization was the point, dear.

I doubt your demographic confession is true, but if it is, why keep festering on a gay board when your bile is a better fit for 4chan? You can crow about your novelty status there and find fans all over that board. Here, most consider you an intrusion. I don’t, though. I just think you’re limited and sour.

And yeah, I’m old. Your disparagement on that count is as predictable as it is tired.

And if you, as a straight Asian married woman, are in accord with the numerous posts on this board making generalizations about Asian women, I suggest you spend more time figuring out what’s your plan b after you find your husband getting spit roasted by two sweaty bears in your own bed.

- R238

Another example of "there is no such thing as the perfect life." All those public media personalities and famous "stars" (I put in quotes because stardom in the digital age is more diluted and watered down than in past eras...EVERYONE is famous now, it seems) who seem so happy and who some aspire to be like? It seems like the pendulum always swings back the other way in private. Salacious goings on. Depression. Drug use. Mental problems. I am saddened by this story (had no idea who this guy was) but not surprised. Is ANYONE surprised, really? I think it is as likely as not that there was some clandestine gay sex involved but would not be surprised if there was not. Drugs in a seedy motel is a plenty sad enough way to go. It's such a Hollywood way to go, unfortunately. Godspeed to his family and friends.

LA morning news makes me cry even without a tacky anchorman death.

Wasn't Lu Parker that slut who was banging the mayor while covering him?

From the videos posted, he is a flaming queen obviously on cocaine.

But, "thoughts and prayers" and all that.

Yes. Lu and Villaraigosa were an item for quite a bit.

I don't think we'll ever find out who the male companion was and the nature of their relationship. I wonder if the DL theory holds that the room belonged to the guy. That makes more sense because KTLA is on Sunset. There are so many no-tell motels in that surrounding that it's crazy to get a room in Glendale.

[quote]curious. asking for a friend....... is fentannyal, just dangerous if you are doing heroin? or can fentannyal also be mixed in with other drugs. like cociaine and oh my friend is asking now, can it be mixed in with meth? and you not know it?

Yes, anything can be cut with fentanyl because it's really fucking cheap. It's not like the good old days when all you had to worry about was baby laxative in cocaine. I'm old and boriing now and don't do drugs anymore, but if I did, I might stop because of all the fentanyl out there.

From personal experience, I agree with R279. Of course his wife knew something was going on. Now, that doesn't mean she wasn't in denial about it. I have a brother who during his years in college got heavily involved with drugs. At first my whole family ignored it then we tried to play the "he just does it once and a while but he's not an addict" problem. It was only one day when police had arrested him my parents had to bail him out from jail covered in his own barf and shit that we got him into rehab.

I don't get a gay vibe from Burrous but that doesn't mean anything. Someone said his family is Italian, well if were in the closet I wouldn't be surprised.

r277 You're adorable! Are you the widower of Aunt Diane, who never drank at all and must have had her tox report tampered with? Yes, he got a cold from a co-worker, took some meds, had a bad reaction and pulled over to a seedy hotel and checked in and died.

thank you 294. AGREED. i had never ever done drugs. then about 4yrs ago, I, mean a friend of mine decided honestly that meth for very short time would be a good way to lose 20pounds, well that turned out , for him to be a very bad idea. since the next three years he felt he kept it under control, but looking back there were many blow ups and failures that resulted from his weight loss idea of using meth. anyway, he completely just stopped nov 2016 and never touched it again. but thinking back, the times that it could have been mixed with fentenayl or even the xanax he bought could have been mixed with fentannayl, i read that happened also, very very scary, he really dodged a bullet, anyone messing with drugs today is completely brain dead

with life insurance or not, she must and will sell the home, downsize and move to be closer to her in-laws.

and of the KTLA news studs my favorites are:

my #1 is Mark Mester (tall, tan, surfer dude and sex on two legs!)

honorable mentions are:

Kirk Hawkins (out and pocket gay...cute and blond)

John Fenoglio (gay and out)

Rich DeMuro (str8 and married looks like he could do gay porn for Sean Cody)

Doug Kolk (tall and lean, expecting first child with girlfriend)

Steve Kuzj (str8 and married...he's cute and fit fat hot)

Rick Chambers (str8 and married- looks like a 1980s hot daddy pornstar!)

Oh and CBS News David Begnaud (gay and out) did a stint at KTLA news a few years back

Henry DeCarlo (str8 and married weatherman looks like Joey Stefano...if he had lived)

wow, i am going to have to start watching channel 5. that guy on GDLA, ALEXA or whatever SHE wants to be called just is not fun for me to watch, but he does have huge feet. but his co anchor meghan was a witch. soon to be a dyke . she has toxic masculinity all over her

R246 really is a piece of trash. Love his attempt to pass off his racism as coming from a Pacific Islander woman. 👌

lose your anger , 300 who cares about this shit and your hang up on racism, jeeez. get over it. you are ruining this thread. do out and do a protest or something. isnt that what you people do? just go

R269 fentanyl is sometimes packaged and sold as febtanyl but it is usually mixed in covertly with heroin (most commonly) or other drugs. There are geographic differences in what it might be mixed into. In NYC, it has been found in some batches cocaine and some batches of street manufactured pills passed off as Xanax. In some jurisdictions, it’s been found in some batches of meth. Fentanyl cannot be detected by taste or smell so it’s a gamble with each hit whether fentanyl is included and how much. So when someone is used to using a certain amount based in heroin only, but a fair amount of fentanyl is present it is equivalent it means they have accidentally taken a bigger hit than expected. Even the occasional coke user who is unlucky enough to take a hit adulterated with enough fentanyl can have an opioid overdose.

Anyone who uses heroin or coke at all in NYC needs to use the th a friend, take turns spacing out with their hits, go slower than usual with their consumption, and have narcan on site (the friend will need to administer it and that would be hard if they both used and od’ed at the same time). In NYC, anyone with insurance can get narcan under their insurance without a script at most chain pharmacies. They can also get free narcan at state-authorized syringe exchanges listed on both NYC and NYS health department websites.

Jeez R268 What R you 105? Since when did on air newscasters get in bar fights and show up for work with scars and cauliflower ears? Because I do not recall Edward R. Murrrow, David Brinkley or Walter Cronkite appearing on camera with a black eyes, broken noses and/or missing teeth. Or any stories about them that would lead to such outcomes.

wow, thanks for the very direct information R302. BUT reading about people who died from a xanax pill bought off the market or mixed with cocaine or meth enough to scare me that i would never touch any of those things. i have done adderral for a few years and i even stopped that. no thanks, i dont plan on making my exit that way, its so reckless to play with your life that way. when i go.....its going to make a big statement. lol

What about David Pingalore, r298? Does he ping galore?

SInce people are saying he probably doesn’t make that much, how much do anchors in a major city like LA, SF or NYC make?

The Christmas video is heartbreaking. That poor little girl interacting with her Dad so lovingly just the day before this happened. I guess that happens in other ways too, (car accidents, heart attacks, etc), but this one has been splashed all over the news and how can her mother protect her from all of that?

But our kids don't get pissed at us and then need therapy later, so fuck off r307!

[quote] I do not recall Edward R. Murrrow, David Brinkley or Walter Cronkite appearing on camera with a black eyes, broken noses and/or missing teeth.

Lol. This guy was HARDLY a David Brinkley or Walter Cronkite.

Please.

Yes, we will learn the name of the other guy once the official police report becomes available. He should go to Mexico for a few months because the press is going to get all up his ass the moment they learn his identity

Question from someone naive: Who are these people mixing fentanyl in with other drugs? Are they purposely trying to kill people? Or are they sloppy cooks who accidentally mixed drugs together?

r311, Don't know if they are doing it intentionally or if they are just trying to up their profit margin. It seems baby laxative would be cheaper to mix in and easier to get.

R149 His home in Porter Ranch is the area of that neighborhood that's situated south of the 118 adjacent to Northridge. I think property values are lower there. Real estate records indicate that he and his wife bought the place in 2012. It was a short sale purchased for $370K. Seems like it was a fairly average West San Fernando Valley home (3 bdrm 2 bath in 1660 sq ft) built in 1959. Apparently, they've given up the attached two car garage and converted that into more living space with it now showing as a 5 bdrm 3 bath home in 2100 sq ft, no garage. So it's current appraised value based on square footage is somewhat questionable. Probably put it in the neighborhood of $750K now.

If the wife has to move, she might be better off keeping it and trying to lease it for income.

Get the widow on the set, we need dirty laundry!

[quote]Lol. This guy was HARDLY a David Brinkley or Walter Cronkite.

NO one today is a Brinkley or a Cronkite. Hell, they're not even a Brokaw or a Peter Jennings.

The widow is probably worried that she'll have to move back to (shudder) BAKERSFIELD!

R311 There's no real data or clear answer about the fentanyl being mixed with other drugs. This articles offers some interesting theories. Also, some people are seeking fentanyl itself, unmixed, and overdosing.

[quote]Rich DeMuro (str8 and married looks like he could do gay porn for Sean Cody)

Wow, you were not kidding.

R293 it's less than ten miles away and right off the freeway

R298: Kirk Hawkins is the partner/husband of Peter Daut from Channel 2

[quote]my #1 is Mark Mester

Mark Mester is one of the hottest guys in LA news. His mellow surfer guy vibe makes him seem like th3 kind who would do whatever felt good.

What a bummer of a Christmas for his daughter.

Yesterday, his co-news people were telling funny stories about him and one was about how he was always talking about *when* they got fired. Then he would launch into a one man show about what he would do next. One skit was a TV commercial about how, the viewers once welcomed them into their homes, now, would they buy one from them?

It was a pretty high pressure job, especially recently since they are on for six hours in the morning, and everyone lives and dies on the ratings, so that probably didn't help someone who seems to have used drugs regularly, and maybe did so because of this.

@misskaraleem

I produced for you every morning, Chris Burrous.

Nothing will ever be the same.

This is how I say goodbye. #untilwemeetagain

Liberte Chan:

Tiger Mom's holed up somewhere watching this scene on a loop so she can sound somewhat convincing when she does her press conference.

[quote]The wife will inherit hundreds of thousands in life insurance money, plus whatever benefits he had from KTLA. She's set for life, which is why she probably married him in the first place.

Oh but wait, it gets better: The wife's sister and some other person have set up TWO Go Fund Me accounts for the wife & daughter, and have, as of midmorning today (12/30) raised well in excess of $40,000, and the total is rapidly climbing. If these were people living on the brink of poverty, or even middle-class folk, this would be nice, but I fail to understand why people in this financial situation need a fucking Go Fund Me account, let alone two. I am continually amazed at the current feeling that throwing money at a problem or situation is always the right response to anything bad.

I don't remember the old DL being this racist.

Is it one autistic fat (white) slob who thinks he is being funny? Or is it more than one?

Hopefully just the one.

is R328 still going on about racism? why not go get a pussy hat or go march or do something but please take your church lady racism fight somewhere else. geez . the hags on this site really stick their noses everywhere

I have read all the stories and this man was really loved by people. his workers, his family , his audience. i mean people on the online postings are going on about what a wonderful guy he was, thats what makes it so sad.......... who knows what the story is, why he would risk his life like that but i guess alot of people do, i mean he could have died in an auto accident just by taking the wrong turn.

He was taking it up the pooper with poppers to forget Dragon Lady.

He sounds like he was such a wonderful, beloved man. What a horrible tragedy.

The last Burrous Bites with our Bespectacled Rose Queen

That’s a horrible thing to say, r332.

He was clearly a top who sucked cock and swallowed.

He was known for his love of eating, so I think R335 is correct.

R328, it really wasn’t this racist before.

I do think there has been a gradual uptick over the past decade, but the past two years seem to be worse.

Who knew Trump’s emboldening would reach a gay board?

It’s sad but inescapable. I wish I could lock the Ignore feature but it seems to have an expiration - or posters are using more than one browser or device.

R337= big racist cunt.

R337= frau

More love from his former-station in Sacramento.

Has the wife asked what he was doing in a motel with another male instead of being at home cherishing her Asian-ness?

Wtf, shit a go fund me page, really? Look at that fucking nice house, 10 xmas trees all expensively lavished.

DL what is the real deal on this man? Normally DL knows more than the average bear, nobody is talking and if they are it’s about race. What’s the juicy tidbits?

[quote] Wtf, shit a go fund me page, really? Look at that fucking nice house, 10 xmas trees all expensively lavished.

Exactly. You can tell that the "wife" was just a greedy gold digger.

And she's trying to get as much money out of this tragedy, as possible.

^^^^ He was "on assignment", r342.

Maybe they were on "a break!"

Here are some nuggets of wisdom from r339.

I would love to forward these to his employer, but I have a hunch he’s not been able to hold down a job in years.

Behold:

KTLA anchor found dead in motel Please, these Asian bitches care about one thing only- money. As long as she got his check to buy Louis Vuitton bags and every other tacky logo crap, he could have been fucking the family dog.

KTLA anchor found dead in motel The racist ranting troll is tedious. Asian women are bitches, and lucky to even be here.

KTLA anchor found dead in motel It would really be funny if the guy with him in the motel was Asian. But we know they have the micropeen.

KTLA anchor found dead in motel Do the Asian women still go for the eye surgery to look more white, or has that fad passed?

Is KTLA a CW station? The scroll at R325 says Spectrum will no longer carry KTLA so that means no more Supergirl or The Flash! So this was a weekend CW anchor?

Wow, so I guess the racism was mostly by one person. What a sad, racist, xenophobic, lonely, small person he is. Thanks for compiling, R346.

I've seen a lot of tributes to news anchors in different cities, like Bill Bonds who was as legendary as a local news man can get. Most of them are by colleagues who obviously wrote them out typically and professionally.

The personal memories shared from other news anchors in LA, Sacramento and New York, with funny, potentially embarrassing stories, show that he really was a nice. guy.

Is it typical for the circumstances of his death being so widely disseminated so quickly, or was that because the EMTs and others recognized him and word spread fast? If he were a notable executive but not recognizable, would it have played out this way? It just seems to all have been a big invasion of his family's privacy.

R350 Maybe because it happened over the holidays and there is not much else going on in the news.

R350 you sound like you’ve never heard what being a public figure means.$

[quote]Is it one autistic fat (white) slob who thinks he is being funny?

Autistic? Do you mean the Loon? I know Matt is a racist and Trumpster, so maybe it is.

"Is it one autistic fat (white) slob who thinks he is being funny?"

Yeah and that's not racist at ALL! Oh the irony of pointing out racism by being a racist cunt. And stop with this tagging anyone who didnt vote for Hillary a racist. Such a bore and a downright fib.

R346, you sound quite deranged. Wishing you could forward these posts to someone's employer? You may want to try just ignoring the racist troll, or better yet, ignore this entire thread. Spend your energy on something more positive. You sjw millennials are a fucking mess.

[quote] Is it typical for the circumstances of his death being so widely disseminated so quickly, or was that because the EMTs and others recognized him and word spread fast?

The guy who was in the motel with him, probably gave the police and EMT's his name. He pretty much had to.

Once the name was out, the cat was out of the bag.

He’s very recognizable in LA. They would have recognized him the minute they saw him.

[quote]stop with this tagging anyone who didnt vote for Hillary a racist.

The racism tag has nothing to do with not voting for Hillary and everything to do with the racist comments being made about Asians on this thread, all by the same sick individual. Matt the Loon is a known racist, it’s there for anyone to see on his FB and in his prior comments on DL. He’s also an autistic nutcase.

That recent movie is racist because it called Asians crazy in the title.

I can ignore the adolescent racism but it's annoying to come to a thread and want to get the story and have to wade through some dick's OCD trolling. Can't he just go back to playing his video games?

[quote] They would have recognized him the minute they saw him.

In one of the interviews I saw with the police spokesman, that's what he said: As soon as the EMTs arrived and saw him, they recognized him.

[quote]As soon as the EMTs arrived and saw him, they recognized him.

He added, "Everybody knows Chris."

When he was on WPIX in NYC, he did seem a bit queeny.

[quote]He’s very recognizable in LA. They would have recognized him the minute they saw him.

I've lived in LA for 31 years and have never heard of his name, much less be able to recognize him. But then I don't watch local news.

Astonishing stereotyping of Asian women going on. Just because a white man married an Asian woman does not mean he is gay.

I'm waiting for someone to call the sjw a rice queen......

r366 = Trumpster whining about sjws

But R365, John Lennon kissed Brian Epstein on the cheek that one time, so yes, all white men who marry Asian women are gay.

Why are there so many racist Trump loving fraus on this board now, shouldn't they be tending to their dozen cats and trying to get their kids who no doubt hate them to visit?

R368, Yoko herself JUST said that John was "bisexual." From her Asian lips!

Matthew Morrison married an azn woman, lol.

Just sayin'.

[quote]Astonishing stereotyping of Asian women going on. Just because a white man married an Asian woman does not mean he is gay.

Sound like a bi white male stereotype to me, honestly, not much to do with Asian women.

Nice try though.

Hey, time to get back to talking about me!

R373 yes, please

Please shit in my mouth.

[quote] Hey, time to get back to talking about me!

Exactly.

The "EVERYTHING IS RACIST!!!!" trolls have hijacked this thread.

Ok I will go search for updates. Brb

Oh my sweet mother of Satan. Why the fuck are they receiving money. Seriously, give to the homeless. It’s a family issue, it should not be my problem they were not prepared for a death in the family. Bizarre

5 facts about damn Chris.

Asian women have little tits, like fucking a twink.

[quote] Why the fuck are they receiving money

Pure and unadulterated greed.

It's not like his family was poor, homeless, and on the street. They have money, and they will get more money.

His life insurance, pension, and monetary gifts from the funeral should be MORE THAN ENOUGH for the wife and child.

But, no.

This TV news gossip website has a few new details and hints more will likely be coming out. It suggests Burrous had been living a “double life.” Supposedly he told the wife he was at a meeting to plan Rose Bowl coverage when he was actually at the Days Inn. KTLA allegedly found out he was dead when reporters from other stations started calling to get a comment. And the man who called EMS is reportedly “known” to police.

Here's an interesting take on him.

Sounds like he's been a handful for a long time for those who knew him. Wonder if the drugs were part of him all along, or if he was looking to up his crazy train.

Thank you! Great gossip.

There could be a "no pay-'out for PNP Sex Pig-related deaths" clause in his life insurance. The Go Fund Me might be necessary. . .

R385 oh my God, so frickin funny. Love you.

[quote] This TV news gossip website has a few new details and hints more will likely be coming out.

Is English a second language for the person who writes on that site? There are typos and awkward writing everywhere. Makes it hard to give it much credibility.

My heart really breaks for his daughter. I'm sure he was a great dad and that she adored him. Her life has changed in a big and traumatic way. She's not a kid anymore.

R388 yes, I agree. Although, you play, you pay. Unfortunately her father did not respect himself enough to give her a great life. Addiction kills in so many ways.

[quote]My heart really breaks for his daughter. I'm sure he was a great dad and that she adored him. Her life has changed in a big and traumatic way. She's not a kid anymore.

Actually, I feel sorry for the kid, too. I also think it's tragic that her greedy maternal side of the family has set up a completely unwarranted Go Fund Me account for her and her mom. These are affluent people. Save Go Fund Me for people who real need it, not money grubbers who are very obviously making the best of a bad situation. They're either woefully stupid/ignorant, or there's a special place in hell for them.

[quote] Addiction kills in so many ways

So does the closet. Usually, the two go hand in hand.

What’s the obsession here? The guy is dead in a motel of a probable OD and the whole story will come out in due time. Why all the speculation about children, wife, coworkers? It will all come out no matter what your frau speculations are

R392, frau speculations are the specialty of a certain frau who doesn't really belong here, but who works overtime to overfill the Datalounge with her obsessions. Viz. the 90 threads on Chris Watts, of which 80% of the posts are by her.

B. Caldwell December 31st, 2018

Chris’ Mother is a retired NASA procurement assistant and his father is a retired NASA engineer.

Comment from r382 's article.

Do we know who he was with in the hotel room?

From r383 :

Anyone who supervised Chris would tell you at the time that he was far from a model employee. Chris, sometimes, pushed the envelope too far — when TMZ launched their TV show in 2007, one of their first stories focused on a controversial Good Day segment where Chris visited a homeless encampmentand gave a transient woman McDonald’s and beer.

Controversy also seemed to find Chris when he wasn’t trying: That same year as the TMZ incident, Chris and his team at CBS13.com were thrust into the national spotlight when radio personality Rush Limbaugh criticized the program for running a poll asking if a song called “Barack the Magic Negro” that Limbaugh played during his show was racist (Limbaugh later ran a poll of his own, asking if Chris and others on the show were “morons”).

Chris had more than one sit-down with station management in Sacramento over his antics. It was not something he was unfamiliar with: He often confided, to me and to others — and once, to Good Day viewers themselves — that sometimes pushing the envelope came with consequences. Before coming to Sacramento, Chris worked at a television station in Bakersfield, where he was eventually fired for dressing up as the town’s mayor during an event at a local bar.

Chris was not afraid to admit when he was wrong, but he did so by also complaining when he knew station management to be wrong. Managers are tasked with, among other things, keeping order and working through chaos. More often than not, Chris brought the chaos, because he thrived on disorder — not for the sake of being rambunctious (though he was), but for the sake of being real. It was intoxicating, and it helped shape my own attitude and behavior very early on in my career — which, more than once, got me in trouble and earned me my own trips to a news organization’s equivalent of the principle’s office.

Some of our conversations over the years amounted to little more than ranting about how managers didn’t “get it” and how we’d both kind of do our own things anyway. But Chris also had the ability to maintain great, lasting relationships with certain people who did “get it” or could otherwise provide his career with some kind of value. One of those people was Steve Charlier, a former manager at KMAX who later became an executive with the Tribune Company. Chris was not a huge fan of Charlier’s management style, but he liked Charlier and he saw maintaining a friendly relationship with him as one way to get ahead in his career.

Chris told me more than once that his ultimate dream job was to land at a station in Southern California. He grew up in the Central Valley, where television markets tend to be smaller than they are in the rest of the state, and he idolized people who worked in Los Angeles news. Specifically, Chris wanted to work at KTLA, a station whose morning show served as the framework for KMAX’s Good Day. KTLA was owned by the Tribune Company. Charlier was in a position to make it happen for Chris.

In early 2010, there were no opportunities at KTLA for Chris. But Charlier did reach out with an offer for Chris to work as an anchor the morning show at WPIX in New York City. New York is a larger market than Los Angeles by just one step, and Chris saw it as a major opportunity to move up in his career — because, as they saying goes, if you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere. He put in his year at WPIX before asking for a transfer to KTLA to be closer to his parents(Chris was a family man first and a broadcaster second).

KTLA staffers were initially apprehensive about “the new guy from New York,” particularly since his transfer was approved by a member of an unpopular executive team in Chicago that many at the company did not like (I know this from first-hand experience; KTXL, where I worked for two years in my first TV job, was owned by the Tribune Company — and like the station, the company was a mess). But once they saw him in action, they accepted Chris and eventually revered him as a talented broadcaster who was an engaging jack-of-all-trades, seamlessly moving from his recurring segments on local eateries to covering breaking news in an instant, or otherwise filling in wherever he was needed.

I'm surprised by all the nice comments on this thread. Usually DL is well... DL. It will probably be a while before we find out all the sordid details.

For almost a decade, viewers in Los Angeles have had the opportunity to get to know the Chris Burrous that we all saw on display during his nearly five years in Sacramento. He was not above stopping what he was doing in public to take photos with viewers. When a viewer wrote about a recipe she’d created, he called her after the show and asked to stop by her home so he could learn how to create that recipe. There were dozens of people he invited into the studio to observe his work process and take in the magic that is television news. If he could poke holes in the invisible wall between broadcasters and viewers, he actively sought to poke those holes.

Broadcasters who push their own celebrity aside to make their audiences feel loved and special are a rare breed these days. Chris was that and so much more. He had a keen awareness of the magical bond that broadcast radio and television could create between audience and talent, and he let nothing — not ratings, not management, not even himself — stand in the way of nurturing that relationship.

The details of Chris’ passing are still largely unknown, but his death is the subject of a police investigation where overdose is suspected. In coping through these last 24 hours, I’ve largely tried to avoid learning more about how he died because it is almost guaranteed that those details will come out and that it will be hard for all of us to stomach. Not too many of us are ready for that just yet.

Part of the coping mechanism in dealing with his loss has been to reach out to mutual friends and former co-workers. Until yesterday, I had no idea that Chris struggled with certain forms of drug addiction — I never saw it first hand, never suspected it, and we never discussed it. But others, apparently, did know about it. Some tried to intervene, but most did not. It is not entirely clear to me that strenuous intervention efforts would have helped: Chris was the type of person who believed he was right until he was proven wrong, and even after acknowledging a mistake, the consequences rarely mattered to him — he had a way of picking himself up, dusting himself off, and moving on. When people asked me how I was able to keep myself together after getting into some troubles, it was because I was inspired by how Chris kept himself together when he got into trouble.

You can always recover from the consequences, until you can’t. Untimely death is one of those consequences, and it affects not just the person who dies but everyone else who is around them — the hundreds of acquaintances, friends, colleagues and people on the periphery who were not quite ready for that person to go, and in many ways still need them in their lives.

Who is writing that stuff, R399?

Quotes above from r383

[quote] My heart really breaks for his daughter. I'm sure he was a great dad and that she adored him. Her life has changed in a big and traumatic way. She's not a kid anymore.

Yes, say what you will about his death and that bitch wife, but he was a great dad who truly loved his daughter.

[quote] Do we know who he was with in the hotel room?

It certainly wasn't his wife!

Sounds more like drugs than gay stuff, then, since the cops already know the friend

The hotel is right off the freeway on the way to Pasadena so maybe he was going to the Rose Bowl.

It could have been his men's bible study group. Sometimes they meet in motels on weekdays during lunch.

I watch reruns of Dr. G, Medical Examiner on the Justice Network, and she said she sees these coke deaths all the time. A person can do it 50 times and are fine, but she said for some reason that doctors still don't understand, the final time causes a reaction that kills them.

I still don't understand the need for a GoFundMe. Are they buying a gold-plated coffin? He can be cremated for $500.

[quote]she said she sees these coke deaths all the time. A person can do it 50 times and are fine, but she said for some reason that doctors still don't understand, the final time causes a reaction that kills them.

Tell me about it! Thank God Vincent came to my rescue.

[quote]I still don't understand the need for a GoFundMe.

If he was hiding the fact that he was hanging out in sleazy motel rooms doing drugs and/or fucking men, it seems perfectly plausible that he had run up huge amounts of debt (from drugs, escorts, gambling, who knows) and bankrupted their finances, and he was hiding that information too. His wife was obviously in the dark about a bunch of things.

Tom Petty's coroner report took three months, so we won't know the details of this until maybe late March...

He was cute and kind of a clown on air. I would've hooked up with him.

Dead or not, his email address in the article linked in R182 should have been blacked out. Very unprofessional not to do so.

*R382, sorry

[quote]the final time causes a reaction that kills them.

That's like saying the lost thing you're looking for is always in the last place you look. You stop looking after you find it, so of course that's true. If it didn't kill them, it wouldn't have been the final time.

How CBS broke the news

Mai Do-Burrous Escape From Vietnam

From his stint in Bakersfield where he met his wife

His family financial issues should not be our community issue. Go fucking fund me account. I still think she is a selfish cunt who looked away while her husband played. Fuck the wife, fuck it all.

R418 are you the other guy at the Days Inn?

I’ll take Tom Wait (the CBS 2 reporter in the clip above) over Chris ANY day. Hiiiiiiii, Tommmmmmm.

His killer is posting in this thread

^ Hold me, David. I’m scared.

Hmmmmm

Now his killer really is posting...

r418 has issues. "Must find a way to make it all about attacking the woman, not the guy whose behavior killed himself and decimated his family!"

R418 is one toxic asshole.

42 years old merits a snarky "So young..."?

OP, are you aware of the average age on this forum???

R424 wtf? It’s Chris’s issue for making poor choices. I feel bad for his wife. If they had not just posted a video displaying their beautiful home and 10 exquisitely decorated trees, and in the oven a 20lb Prime Rib, including Yorkshire pudding. Oh yeah, here let me give you a $20. Society is messed up...

Does a family with money problems eat, drink, and be merry. That money could help so many other individuals. Here’s a clue: sell stuff. My point is we all have struggles...

They could be a family who lived on credit. Buy shit loads esp xmas trees etc and post on social media to make it seem like they live perfect lives. Most likely they have a lot of debt.

And why have a kid if you can't afford it? I fucking hate people like this.

R428 exactly! I mean if my partner died and I did a go fund me page? Celebrity status has stretched too far...

Well the person who worked and supported the family just died, so now they don't have a source of income.

I mean yes, you can consider it unfair that she is getting money because this story got media attention, but you get why the family would want it.

R430 I do not have to ‘get’ anything; therefore I will not contribute. No, I do not get why someone living in a $900,000 home would not be better prepared with Life Insurance. The whole situation is disgusting.

I didn't contribute either, but I don't begrudge her.

Your anger I think says more about your frustrations with your own financial situation, which sorry, but such venomous jealously ain't a good look.

R432 ok, I hear your psychological analysis. I know I live a very comfortable life, and thankfully I have not had many difficult times. My frustration is with my own health. These individuals are making a mockery of addiction. Therefore, those of us (me included) who have serious health issues and do not have addiction issues suffer from their making a mockery over pills. After reading about him and seeing their home display, I feel poor judgement. My Uncle is a extremely wealthy and I would feel the same about him even in same situation. Your gifted in life, be a disciple and give back.

Maybe he wasn't addicted to pills? Maybe he was addicted to bible study?

[quote]I didn't contribute either, but I don't begrudge her.

Exactly. I remember how many bills (BIG bills) had to be paid in the first few weeks following my father's death, before I received payment from his life-insurance policy.

Bullshit- what big bills are due immediately? Dragon Lady wants her 💲, the whore.

Micro-dick troll at R436.

Keep posting R436.....you have a way with words.

[Quote] He was taking it up the pooper with poppers

Pooper? Really? Who says that word now?

[quote] Well the person who worked and supported the family just died, so now they don't have a source of income.

I thought the Asian had a job. If not, she can go out and get one...

[quote]I’ll take Tom Wait (the CBS 2 reporter in the clip above) over Chris ANY day

R420, you know Tom Wait is openly gay, don’t you? (As are two other CBS2 LA reporter/anchors, Peter Daut and Chris Holmstrum).

Tom has quite the hot body, which he shows off occasionally on his Instagram. Sometimes wearing a speedo, sonetimes just shirtless sometimes just flip flop (and pants). He had sone cute pool pix from the National Gay and Lesbian Journalists’ convention in Palm Springs about three months ago.

Why is this news worthy? Some closet case, small time hack news anchor OD's, leaves behind money grabbing bitch wife and precocious brat. Give me a fucking break.

Then why are you reading the thread, r442? Save yourself the frustration and just stay away.

[quote]Maybe he wasn't addicted to pills? Maybe he was addicted to bible study?

Maybe he was addicted to dick?

R439, porn star Jeff Stryker tried to launch a country western music career in the 90's - and he had a song called "I want to pop you in the pooper."

R443 For the cunty comments.

thoughts & prayers

[quote]r23 they did not even identify him as a "friend" just a male person who was with him.

So, then I guess it was just as likely an enemy

I agree with R436 and R440.

Both are spot on.

[quote] Pooper? Really? Who says that word now?

It just occurred to me how often I call someone party pooper.

How about Hershey Highway?

If he OD’d, the family may not be entitled to his life insurance policy. The wife probably wants to keep her house/possessions to keep things as “normal” as possible for her children.

The wife will get the insurance.

They should have savings. That's what emergency funds are for!

But I totally understand, my partner's sister is just like this, have kids, parents have jobs but won't buy life insurance. They spend money like water and don't have much savings at all.

They will have to economize and downsize. Unless the widow can find another man to marry.

so has he been buried yet?

[quote]I’ll take Tom Wait (the CBS 2 reporter in the clip above) over Chris ANY day

Well of course — Chris is rotting, or ashes.

Why, did you want him for something?

Showbiz 411 is asking many questions:

"SUNDAY 8:15PM UPDATE A number of people have asked me a question I hadn’t yet posed: why GoFundMe? And two accts? The Burrouses live in a home valued at least at $750,000. Burrous would have had a high six figure salary at least, and an AFTRA pension. I’ve reached out to the creators of both accounts, and hope to receive answers."

Would you say he was overpaid?

[quote]It just occurred to me how often I call someone party pooper.

Do you pop out at parties? Are you un-poop-ular?

[quote]Would you say he was overpaid?

Not anymore.

Where in the Central Valley did he grow up? Central Valley boy here. Says he worked in Sacramento and Bakersfield, but not that he grew up in either. Can’t find anything about it. Just curious.

He was born in West Sacramento, and his parents were both NASA employees, so I am thinking they worked at Ames and commuted in from the Central Valley or the Sacramento Valley, or else moved to the Central Valley after they retired or were laid off.

PS:

I found a tech paper written at AMES in 1966 by a CN Burrous. Not long after (early 70s) Nixon ended the space program and all those aerospace workers were laid off.

Here in my hometown we had a police officer,his corrections officer wife and their 2 teens involved in a dui crash with some stupid drunk bitch.The wife was killed,the cop badly hurt but the kids were okay. Now mind you,the cop and his wife were both current employees of the police force,with good health insurance and Im sure some sort of life insurance , so we arent talking some Arbys employee here. Theyve had multiple fundraisers for them,as well as go fund mes to "help" with the medical bills. During that same week a young black woman was also killed in a wreck and she had 2 kids and Im sure they could have sorely used some extra money, yet crickets. She worked,she took care of her kids and seemed an all around good person,yet only one mention on the news and we heard about that cop every single day for 2 weeks!

A couple of years ago some stupid redneck cop in a small town near me was chasing an illegal mexican and ran onto a busy highway and was mowed down by a semi. Again,fundraisers out the ying yang and they even raised money to put up a fucking statue of the goober.That christmas they did a news segment showing the enormous pile of gifts donated to his little girl,Im talking a pile 4 feet high! Again,Im sure his wife had insurance coming to her,and most likely a pension of some sort. And Id bet my bottom dollar they also received a nice fat sum from fundraisers. People that would benefit the most from go fund me etc are ignored,yet people like that idiot cop get 100s of 1000s .Its all a scam.

The KTTV's Gigi Graciette GoFundMe topped it's $75,000 goal as of this morning:

On behalf of Chris's family, THANK YOU.

The outpouring of love and support - thru your comments, prayers and donations - are a source of comfort during this trying and dark time.

The goal of his friends here is to be able to lessen at least one of the immediate concerns. We want Mai to be able to grieve and focus on their daughter without worrying, at least right now, about what's next.

For now, the family is beginning to plan for Chris's funeral.

Mai's sister Rosemary also started a GoFundMe account to help out. Both of these accounts - this one and hers - are legitimate and as of now are the ONLY ones.

More updates later.

For now, please continue to keep this family in your thoughts and prayers.

GoFundMe? GoFuckYourself!

If you don't like the GoFundMe account, then don't contribute. No one is making you give them money. You don't know their situation anyway - maybe he blew all their money on drugs and gambling.

The other account:

Posted by Rosemary Do Silverstein

10 hours ago

Thank you so much for your generosity and support for my sister Mai and niece Isabella. I set up this account when station management initially felt uneasy promoting a fund set up by someone outside the family. KTLA has since endorsed both this campaign and the one set up by Gigi Graciette.

We apologize for any confusion this has caused and welcome any show of support to either campaign. Thank you.

[quote]If you don't like the GoFundMe account, then don't contribute.

That's one part of my plan. The other part of my plan is to tell them to go fuck themselves.

r471, why the fuck do you care if someone wants to give them money? Get a life, they aren't hurting anyone.

r472, why do you care so much about complete strangers? Please don't tell me you know these people; can't take much more of this site supposedly having only about 100 posters who weigh 400lbs and living in their Mom's basement, yet every single story about someone even semi-famous is personally known by someone here.

Well, perhaps his wife's friends felt bad that the asshole husband spent all their savings on drugs (and maybe whores?) and now have nothing left for the kid's education, that's why they are donating.

I would just cremate the motherfucker.

I don't and would never donate to any go fund me.

"why do you care so much about complete strangers?"

Why are so so obsessed with wanting to tell them to fuck off? Why does what they do affect your life?

Do you think the dude had dick pics? he looks hung

Personally, I'm sick of hearing about him. Period. I know I could have "scrolled on by this thread" and will from now on. Just that there was a lot of interesting stuff posted right after he died. STILL a lot of unanswered questions. But way too much talk about a total stranger. No idea if he was gay or not. But so what. He's wormfood now.

The Tiger Mom knew what was going on but liked the salary

I see the racist has arrived....

HAS arrived???? The racists have been here since the day the dude bought it. Read the thread.

Are there still zero details about what actually happened?

Yes r481 -- oddly, TMZ has been very quiet about this story. Usually, that bunch is the first to pile on.

Hmm R482, maybe Harvey was the drug pusher who met Chris ... fellow reporter / famewhore, with access & connections, sleazy...

@erinmyers

Thank you to all the amazing viewers of @KTLA @KTLAMorningNews today for the hugs and kind words at the @RoseParade float viewing in Pasadena this morning. Your support during such a hard time is amazing and so much appreciated. You are all apart of our family.

Why do so many people seem to think that dying of an overdose renders one's life insurance policy unpayable?

Do you also think that if someone falls climbing El Capitan that invalidates one's life insurance? Or sky diving with a chute failure?

You people can sometimes be shockingly clueless.

I think drug overdose might be one of those things that an insurance company could deny paying out on based on circumstances or policy conditions, especially if the overdose is from ILLEGAL drugs.

[quote] Your support during such a hard time is amazing and so much appreciated. You are all apart of our family.

Jesus! Could these phonies be any more fake?

Exactly, R486. I feel like an OD from illegal substances could render a policy invalid. If someone is shooting up heroin, I don’t think they deserve a payout on their life insurance policy.

Skydiving might be risky, but it’s legal.

r466 Seems to hate cops. I'm sure the cops would have chosen not to die and get more GFM money than the other people.

I don't want to read the nearly 500 posts upthread.

Was this guy sucking dick when he died, or not?

Not really interested otherwise if he didn't

^ That speculation, along with rabid racism and a ranking of hot LA news personalities, is what fueled most of the thread.

His wife WILL get the fucking insurance. OD is considered like suicide. As long as the policy was in effect for over 24 months it will pay.

How long does it take for the insurance to pay out?

The wife will be just fine. She can keep eating like a queen at Panda Express.

To the dimwits above" speeding down the Interstate Highway at 120 MPH is illegal too.

Do you also think that insurance will not pay when they crash?

yeah, some really clueless and poor people in this thread.

[quote]porn star Jeff Stryker tried to launch a country western music career in the 90's - and he had a song called "I want to pop you in the pooper."

I couldn't quite believe this, so I looked it up on iTunes and there it was. I downloaded it for 99¢ and it's a surprisingly catchy little number. Thanks for the info, R445.

here is CBS 2 (Los Angeles) Tom Wait in the middle...shirtless...looks like he trims his hairy chest mmm....i never knew he was gay...i mean i never got that vibe..must be he's always so professional on air.

life insurance policy- will pay from an accidental death BUT not from an - illegal - drug - use - overdose. So most likely her claim will be denied. She can try to appeal but they will tell her to read her policy....all those pages including the fine print.

$76,485 of $75,000

$30,990 of $50,000

total so far from both - $107, 475......BUT that's before GoFundMe takes their administration cut/percentage/tax

i have a feeling Chris was in charge of all the finances and probably left the family very low in cash and in debt.

Trust me his wife wouldn't of agreed to the GoFundMe campaigns if they had cash, money saved.

Sell the house (get a condo or rent an apartment) sell his car, invest and live off what's left.

Maybe it was prescription poppers and heroin?

I always assume that insurance companies will do pretty much anything to NOT pay out, if they can find a way. Died while doing something illegal? NO PAYOUT FOR YOU.

R501 Yeah, death while doing something ILLEGAL is listed within most articles on the subject.

R498, that’s from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalist Assoc event in Palm Springs. The tall guy on the left is CBS 2’s Peter Daut.

Check out his vacation IG pix from the last two summers. So lots of cozypix with guys he is apparently fucking.

I have to say that Tom Wait in r498's pic is somewhat underwhelming but the guy on the right is cute.

Can Muriel tell where the rabid racist shitstain is posting from and block them...or send out a hit team to slowly and brutally murder them?

[quote]r468 GoFundMe? GoFuckYourself!

Exactly. Surely he had a very healthy life insurance policy, in addition to making 7 figures for years! She can sell one of their cars, for gods sake.

Why not help people who are really in NEED??

[quote]The tall guy on the left is CBS 2’s Peter Daut. Check out his vacation IG pix from the last two summers. So lots of cozypix with guys he is apparently fucking.

Wouldn't a gay man have chosen a COMPLEMENTARY color?

[quote]r470 Thank you so much for your generosity and support for my sister Mai and niece Isabella. I set up this account when station management initially felt uneasy promoting a fund set up by someone outside the family. KTLA has since endorsed both this campaign and the one set up by Gigi Graciette.

I like that there's TWO official GoFundMe accounts.

Because just 1 isn't scammy enough.

[quote]r486 I think drug overdose might be one of those things that an insurance company could deny paying out on based on circumstances or policy conditions, especially if the overdose is from ILLEGAL drugs.

A wealthy relative of mine committed suicide, and his wife still got an excellent life insurance settlement.

I'm not a lawyer or anything, but it makes sense that if one's being treated for clinical depression, is on meds etc., what you're looking at is a genuine medical condition.

The issue with Burrous though, isn’t suicide, r509. It’s (apparently) a drug overdose, ie, illegal activity which likely invalidates the insurance claim.

Attempted suicide, like attempted homicide, is illegal

Yeah, how many people end up in jail or get a fine for trying to off themselves?!

Life insurance individually purchased in the open market usually carries a one year exclusion for a death by suicide. Life Insurance that comes through an employer group might not have that exclusion.

If the policy is in good order and the death is by suicide, and not within the customary one year exclusion period, it should pay out.

I was always told that whether suicide pays out on life insurance can vary by state.

[quote] i have a feeling Chris was in charge of all the finances and probably left the family very low in cash and in debt.

You're probably right. I confess my own racist tendencies prevented me from entertaining this possibility earlier.

[quote]I have to say that Tom Wait in [R498]'s pic is somewhat underwhelming but the guy on the right is cute.

I think so too -- so who IS he?

Another option is to go for and/or accept a much-reduced settlement on a life insurance policy, which is what the Michael Jackson admins opted to go for when they figured the toxicology reports would come back showing drugs. In that case, the insurer went along with it - handing over $3 million on a $20 million policy (or just 15%) with litigation being avoided.

[quote] That speculation, along with rabid racism and a ranking of hot LA news personalities, is what fueled most of the thread.

Get off it, already.

You keep blathering on about racism, like a broken record.

There is no racism in this thread, except from the voices you are hearing in your deranged head.

I knew a guy in radio who made a lot of money and spent it all as soon as he got paid. I saw the future of radio was going to dry up with phones where people could listen to music or podcasts & told my husband “you need to tell him to start saving because he’s going to be let go in about 2 years.”

My husband tried but the guy just didn’t listen. He also did drugs & online gambled. Long story - lost his show, wife divorced him because she thought they were saving money all this time and there was $0 in their savings account.

So now they’re all basically living in poverty except for the daughter — she got a free ride at a private university because her family’s income was below the poverty level.

They sold their house for $200k less than they paid for it

You’d never know it from his on-Air persona.

Must've been brain dead by the time help came, because usually Law Enforcement and certainly other emergency aids carry Narcan these days. And the obvious other reason for OD is sober up then try to achieve the same high when your tolerance was high and OD.

It may have been speed/meth

Does Narcan work for coke?

No, just Pepsi.

Meanwhile, Chris's former employer is being blacked out for Spectrum cable subscribers (of which there are many in the LA area, especially after they took over Time Warner.)

R522 No. And if no one was there to verify what he was doing then it won't be administered. Are toxicology reports going to be released? I imagine not unless this becomes a Dateline story. Local news reporter, beloved, hotel, OD?, another man, marital issues, found unresponsive, living two lives. Seems fitting

I read that the family has a gofundme account and in addition a friend or something donated 5k to the wife and kids. I'm sorry but I think that's complete bullshit, there are so many people who could desperately use financial help. Why should the spoiled wife and kids of this man get priority?

Since the initial police news conference indicated the possibility of a drug overdose, shouldn't the police have gotten a warrant to search his home and vehicle(s) for additional evidence related to drugs - prescription or otherwise?

It’s not a priority, R527. He is not a suspected drug dealer, so why bother the family even more after telling them their loved one, who was fine this morning, is dead?.

What are the exclusions by state if someone commits suicide? It is not summarily excluded. It's typically a couple of years of exclusion and then the policy pays out.

Do you think they are trying to solve a crime r527? He killed himself. Why would you devote resources to investigating this man? I'm sure the LAPD has better things to do.

I don't think he committed suicide but here you go...

If LA coroner's office released Carrie Fisher's tox report, I can't imagine that would not release this dude's.

not LAPD it was in the city of Glendale a suburb of Los Angeles County (about 7.5 miles from KTLA in Hollywood)

FYI- Marlee Matlin's husband is a police officer for Glendale PD...he's a hot bear with a mustache!

It's not a suicide...more like accidental overdose....of an illegal substance....drug use.

makes you think how lucky Demi Lovato was with her friends aka party folks having Narcan with them to save her life.

[quote]Attempted suicide, like attempted homicide, is illegal

There has been absolutely no evidence or suspicion of suicide. Why do you keep bringing it up? His use of drugs was recreational, not for suicide.

The drugs homicided him

This beloved man was probably there to help a troubled friend when he suffered a heart attack. No way was it drugs or sex.

Heart failure from the use of drugs (legal, illegal, prescription, stree, whatever) is not suicide. You can shade it as such, get philosophical about it, but it is not suicide. Just like smoking cigarettes is not suicide, your death will most likely be from lung cancer or a heart disease caused by smoking.

r536 = Burrous' SIL

[quote]r526 I read that the family has a gofundme account and in addition a friend or something donated 5k to the wife and kids. I'm sorry but I think that's complete bullshit, there are so many people who could desperately use financial help.

I would be sooooo embarrased if there was a GoFundMe campaign for my burial. I mean, THANKS FOR ADVERTISING MY POVERTY! Great last memory to leave everyone I know with!

People should not have kids if they can't afford to take care of them, or lack the brains to plan for them. And as for providing for your widowed spouse - sorry, YOU were the one fucking them. Why should I send money??

Why are so many idiots going on and on about suicide? He didn’t commit suicide. Insurance payments will be tied up pending an investigation, then denied, then appealed, then denied again, then hung up on a second appeal The family will have to hire an attorney for all of this. Meanwhile, he has to be buried and funeral expenses are no joke. He was young enough to have not made any funeral arrangements. But even so, who ducking cares? The existence of a Go Fund Me page isn’t a direct solicitation to any of you morons. No one’s trying steal your disability checks. No one asked you to send money, R539. If there are “so many people” who need help, start a fucking Go Fund Me page for them. I’m so sick of how stupid this country has become. You must be a bunch of shut-ins with very little social experience.

My God, the stupidity at R538.

r541 -- his little penis is always armed and ready.

If there is a clause in his insurance that is debatable, most likely the insurance company will settle. That's what happened with Michael Jackson. Don't worry about the wife- she'll be rolling in sushi soon enough.

When's the funeral (or cremation)? It'll be ten days tomorrow.

The coroner released Tom Petty's body to the mortuary after four days..

Haven’t you all seen Ted Schmidt’s PNP storyline on QAF?

Three days ago, the family announced that they were "starting" to plan a funeral, but the only news since then has been about Raj donating money.

According to the cornoer, the body has been released.

R547 should be about time to start another go fund me account for body preparation? You think?

R540, you are being trolled by none other than Poo Shoes, the deplorable Bellagio Maid. Whodunit is one of her obsessions. Another is posting vitriol against gay people on a gay message board. Another is arguing for the sake of argument.

[quote]r546 Three days ago, the family announced that they were "starting" to plan a funeral, but the only news since then has been about Raj donating money.

Isn't the body starting to smell?

"People should not have kids if they can't afford to take care of them, or lack the brains to plan for them"

If you don't have the brains to understand that GoFundMe is voluntary, and that no one is MAKING you give them money....

Nevertheless, he has put the future of his family at the mercy of crowdfunding, rendering them beggars.

Awful parent, horrible spouse.

Well, I guess you Nancy Drews know all of their life stories already. Who needs a coroner's report?

R553 chill

I want to know if he was fucking the guy who was in the cheap motel with him.

I'd bet the guy with him was a drug AND fuckbuddy!

They might simply have been two coworkers grabbing a beer and watching a pay per view fight on hotel cable. It's a stressful job with weird hours, and news rooms are a tribe.

R557 yes, you’re probably right. I know I take my coworkers to motel rooms just to have lunch.

They are prob coworkers who split the motel costs to do heavy drugs. It was an accident and the dead guy is an asshole

[quote] Poo Shoes, the deplorable Bellagio Maid. Whodunit is one of her obsessions. Another is posting vitriol against gay people on a gay message board. Another is arguing for the sake of argument.

Plus conspiracy theories, aliens & supernatural woo woo

It is an endless loop of insanity, isn't it R560?

MY MOMMA TOLD MEEEE...

R560/R561 She has shitted out her annual Jon Benet Ramsey Whodunnit thread this week. While she is still adamant that John Ramsey was fucking her with Mama Patsy's permission, she has soft pedaled the Satanic Ritual Abuse part of her theory thank god. In last year's thread she was pretty much ridiculed by all for her absurd fixation with the "Elites" and their propensity to be pedophiles trading kiddies among each other from state to state.

As previously posted, he was taking it up the pooper with poppers.

Gurls, I believed we've been Jani Laned and the 'male friend' in this story is among us. MAKE YOURSELF KNOWN, WHORE, WE COMMAND THEE!!

Does anyone know who the guy was yet? Then we can judge.

TMZ and the Daily Mail are still staying away from this story. We should have known who the friend is, by now.

Regarding GoFundMes for well-off people. Co-worker had horrible illness two months ago. Husband is an MD and they are very comfortable. Daughter posted a Gofundme, which made over 5k. The woman ade a complete recovery and just posted from a spa where she is sipping champagne and having a "deluxe pedicure." Gross.

Conclusion: GoFundMes have evolved into an expression of narcissism. Why people contribute when someone is not in need financially is beyond me.

The widdaw is a greedy whore.

Sending a request to The Smoking Gun to obtain the police report.

If a few others do so, maybe they'll get on it.

Nobody cares about this shit story.

He was a nobody and has already been forgotten.

He may be a nobody but I want to know. I love mysteries.

in due time, have some patience....everything comes out...sooner or later.

its already embarrassing enough.

i have compassion and sympathy for the little daughter

i still can't get that christmas day facebook video out of my head

even living with someone we dont know who they really are...because secrets!

Im sure there will be a tv movie or a very special Law and Order episode made from this torn from the headlines real life is stranger than fiction story

Why did you feel the need to repeat that post, r564? It wasn’t particularly funny or clever the first time.

[quote]TMZ and the Daily Mail are still staying away from this story

The Daily Mail did something early on. There does seem to be a “hands off” approach to this woth all media, maybe because it’s a fellow journalist.

[quote]Why did you feel the need to repeat that post, r564? It wasn't particularly funny or clever the first time.

The wannabe-offensive troll is trying extra hard in this thread, r574. Maybe it's M**o; he's known for trying too hard and not being as witty as he thinks he is.

Was he a datalounger?

No news agency asked for the original call to 911?

There's really been no follow up because there's nothing to add.

^ We need to know WHY he was there!!!

Because he didn't want shoot up heroin at home r580.

The end.

r581, he may have been gay too.....we don't know about the guy who was with him

Judging from his behavior on camera I would say it was more of a stimulant that was his drug of choice.

[quote] There's really been no follow up because there's nothing to add.

Plus, it wasn't a crime.

Some of you are expecting this to be on Dateline or something, but the truth is that it was just an overdose. Same thing that happens in seedy motels across the country, every single day.

The only thing that made this one noteworthy, is that he was semi-famous. Other than that, it's just another junkie who OD'ed.

Nothing to see here.

I disagree. I think, out of some sort of professional courtesy, his buds in the media have gathered the wagons and have agreed to not report anything seedy that may have come through the grapevine. Though, the toxicology reports and autopsy results are usually public record so they'll most likely be made available to the public.

Inquiring minds want to know!

Toxicology reports take weeks. I also think it was stimulants, or a combo of drugs. The guy wasn't famous enough for there to be a public interest in revealing private information about his death.

R585 Exactly.

And from the original police press conference on "sensitivity."

"That was something that we recognized right away, because, you know, EVERYBODY KNOWS CHRIS. So we knew that this was gonna be something that was gonna be a VERY SENSITIVE MATTER," Glendale police Sgt. Dan Suttles said

I want to see the guy and be the judge? Gayface, BDF, etc.

[quote]r580 We need to know WHY he was there!!!

And with WHO. And whose WHAT, exactly, was going WHERE.

It will bring the family closure.

R590 I love you.

So the real story might be how the press is being very "sensitive" because it is one of their own...

SO THIS STORY IS DEAD.........dataloungers have such a short attention span.........the big stories get about a week max

We have spoken.

There's nothing left to say.

We'll be back when the tox report comes out, or the friend -- whichever comes first

Or when the 20th GoFundMe plea goes out

Right, until the toxicology report theres nit much to say.

Has there been a funeral yet?

[quote] Has there been a funeral yet?

His greedy wife is waiting until the last penny drops in the contribution bucket.

Then she can focus on the big haul from the funeral.

We're almost full here. New thread linked below.

The end.