Her initial tweet concerned her upcoming interview with kidnap victim Jaycee Lee Dugard on ABC TV. Sawyer announced her intention to tweet live during the two hour special program with this message:

“Diane Sawyer Firing up my thumbs… Thanks all for the welcome. Looking forward to live tweeting w you during #JayceeABC special. Sun 9-11p/E.”

Sawyer then followed up her first tweet with this as the interview began on ABC:

“Big TV night @ABC : almost time for #JayceeABC special. Big night for me: first time live tweeting. Here goes!”

Another tweet, sent out during the interview on ABC went as follows:

“This is tough. Book detailed. Important for me that J be comfortable with what she says out loud #JayceeABC”

Sawyer then went on to send forty more tweets during the course of her interview with Ms. Dugard. Sawyer sent mostly original tweets but she also interacted with users by answering several of their tweets during the interview.

Jaycee Dugard is the 31 year old woman who was kidnapped from her home in South Lake Tahoe, California in 1991 as an 11 year old child. Ms. Dugard was held captive by convicted rapist Phillip Garrido and his wife Nancy until she was finally discovered in August, 2009. After managing to avoid detection despite several visits from authorities over the years, the Garridos were finally arrested on August 26, 2009. Garrido and his wife were taken into custody by the FBI and Jaycee was reunited with her family after 18 long years. On April 28, 2011, the Garridos pled guilty to kidnapping and rape and on June 2, 2011, Philip Garrido was sentenced to 431 years. Nancy Garrido received 36 years to life.

Jaycee Dugard gave birth two two daughters as the result of the repeated rapes by Garrido. According to Jaycee Dugard’s aunt, Tina Dugard, “They are clever, articulate, curious girls who have a bright future ahead of them.” Jaycee and her daughters are now living in a secret location in California after receiving a $20 million dollar settlement  to compensate her for “various lapses by the Corrections Department [which contributed to] Dugard’s continued captivity, ongoing sexual assault and mental and/or physical abuse.” According to Judge Daniel Weinstein, who negotiated for the State of California, the settlement was reached to avoid a lawsuit which would be a “greater invasion of privacy and greater publicity for the state.”

Since her rescue from Gerrido. Ms Dugard has begun to rebuild her life and has written a best selling book about her ordeal, “A Stolen Life.” Released on Tuesday June, 11, 2011, the book hit #1 on Amazon shortly after the Diane Sawyer Interview. Much of discussion between Ms. Sawyer and Jaycee Dugard was centered around the content of her gripping memoir.

Ms. Sawyer has received an enthusiastic response to her joining the Twitter universe and as a result, she has already managed to amass 11,000 followers of her twitter account.

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Jaycee Dugard, the kidnap victim who was held in captivity for nearly two years, is now starting to speak out about the horrific moments spent in the home of kidnappers Phillip and Nancy Garrido.

Dugard’s new book, ‘A Stolen Life‘, details her nearly eighteen years of captivity from the beginning, when her father dropped her off at a school bus stop. She goes on in the book to detail the birth of her first child, Angel, at age fourteen while in captivity.

Dugard will also be speaking to Diane Sawyer in an exclusive Primetime interview this Sunday at 9/8C. In the interview, Dugard expressed just how happy she felt to one again have the basic freedoms that most of us take for granted.

“Now I can walk in the next room and see my mom,” Dugard told Diane Sawyer in the interview. “Wow. I can decide to jump in the car and go to the beach with the girls. Wow, it’s unbelievable, truly.”

A Stolen Life is due out on Tuesday, July 12. See below for a preview from the Primetime-exclusive interview.

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Last night’s The Daily Show did a great bit explaining Chatroulette in a segment featuring a Katie Couric, Diane Sawyer, Keith Olbermann, TDS staffers Wyatt Cynac and Jason Jones, and most hilariously, a sheepish Brian Williams.

Stewart basically informed the six people who might not know that Chatroulette is roughly 98% penis and 2% hilarity. Clip below:

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More likely, of course, she had to work through the night — and then, thanks to ABC News, went straight into anchoring Good Morning America without a break.

In any event, watch the video and decide for yourself.

Diane Sawyer Drunk? The Video

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Ashley Dupree, the escort or prostitute that bought down Elliot Spitzer was interviewed on 20/20 by Diane Sawyer on ABC News.

Its an interesting story about how an honour student, turns to the escort business to make money.  Its the usual hard luck story, father left at 3, brotherran away and arrested for dealing, fell in with the wrong crowd.  Ashley Dupree comes across very sympatheticly. If you ever wondered why how someone gets caught up as an escort she told it convincingly.

Diane Sawyer tried to make her say that she was a prostitute, but she would only say sh was an “escort”. W When asked what the difference was she said time spent.  Apparently she spent lots of time “talking”.  Uhuh. Smart girl though, the word prostitute never escaped her lips.

On legal advice she did not answer any detailed questions about the Spitzer affair, but she did say she didn’t know who he was when she met him. 

Her reaction to the huge controversy which ended Governor Elliot Spitzer’s career mainly revolved around her feelings over Spitzer’s wife.   She says she feels nothing towards Spitzer either positive or negative and that she is not at fault for bringing Spitzer down. “if it wasn’t me it would have been somebody else,” she said. “Its not my fault”.

She also said she wants out of the life she had and has turned down both a reality TV series and a million dollar offer from Hustler – Spitzer and prostitution aside, maybe she does have some class.  It will be interesting to see how she pulls her life together, as this reputation is going to follow her around.

See the six minute highlight video below.

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Ashley Dupre, the $2000 an hour hooker favored by disgraced New York Governor Eliot Spitzer is going for another 15 minutes of fame this week with an interview with Diane Sawyer on 20/20.

The rumors of Ashley Dupre making a TV appearance started doing the rounds late last week, and now ABC has confirmed it with this official statement:

“A Diane Sawyer exclusive: In her first television interview, Ashley Dupre, the woman at the center of the scandal involving former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, speaks candidly about what life as a high-end escort is like, how an upper middle-class, girl next door got into the profession and the psychological journey she continues to experience. The interview is a continuation of Sawyer’s recent and extensive reporting on prostitution that was the basis for an in-depth look at the profession, which aired in March of 2008.”

The Dupre/ Spitzer story was a sensation when it broke, but despite initial offers to star in porn films, Dupre quickly disappeared from the limelight. Here’s betting that this 15 minutes of fame may last even shorter than her first.

The interview will be broadcast on ABC this Friday.

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