I first met ABC producer and host Tony Morrison through my former roommate Deb (we’ve made a collection to no longer refer to each other as “old roommates,” since we are both spry young fawns in the forest of life), and since then every interaction has been colorful, interesting, and fun, fun, fun.
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Good Morning America’s Senior Social Producer by day (and by day we mean like 4 am, this show tapes EARLY), Tony also hosts Disney’s D23 podcast for which he’s interviewed everyone from the passing Marvel star to Shiloh’s mother Angelia Jolie.
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Born in the Philippines and raised in Florida, Tony first joined the ABC Disney family as a photographer on Main Street, USA, smack dab in the middle of Disney World. From there, he proved that, as Disney would put it “if you dream it, you can do it,” and arrived in NYC camera in hand to take the fashion world by storm. A twist of fate led him to a graveyard shift PA gig at CNN, then off to the iconic studios of Good Morning America, which featured pretty much every celeb you’ve ever heard of, including my and Deb’s dogs (thanks Tony and Ginger Zee) .
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Tony has won two EMMY awards to date and a GLAAD award for his work with the show, specifically his coverage of the outdated policy restricting gay men from donating blood which has sparked an FDA investigation on the subject.
In August 2021, Tony published a bombshell personal essay on goodmorningamerica.com in which he he revealed his HIV status and the subsequent daily struggles he’s been managing privately for the past eight years. The story went viral, and since then Tony has been named Plus Magazine’s person of the year, and featured everywhere from The Sun to People to the New York Times. Thank you for the chat Tony, and thanks for taking a look, world.