Writer, television personality, actress Amy Kean developed her feisty outspoken style early on, as the author of a controversial column at her Boston prep school.  Amy’s favorite “hot button” articles, “10 Reasons Why We Should Never Go Coed” and “Ethics of Artificial Insemination” gave her the taste of literary celebrity she craved.  While other teenagers were hanging out at the mall, Amy was poring over humorous columns by Andy Rooney and Erma Bombeck.

 

Next Stop, Tufts University, where Amy earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting.  At Tufts, she also discovered that both sexes struggled with dating and relationships more than anything else in their complicated lives.  Amy’s natural response was to explore those painful, often funny dilemmas while writing about them for the university newspaper.

 

The New York Post hired Amy in 1996 as a lifestyle columnist covering virtually everything: art, fashion, music, film, television, theater and women’s issues.  Most important, it was at the New York Post where Amy created her own love advice column, “He Says, She Says.”  The column was a hit with readers.  It’s popularity lead to regular appearances on the following:  Fox News, MSNBC,  “Geraldo,” “Politically Incorrect,” “The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch,” “The Judith Regan Show,”  “The Food Network,” “Morning Blend,” CNBC, “Fox In Depth,” “America’s Talking,” “USA Live,” “Good Day New York,” “Romantically Speaking,” “Entertainment Tonight,” CNN’s “Talk Back Live,” “Living It Up With Ali and Jack,” “The View” (which Amy co-hosted seven times when Barbara Walters was searching for a permanent new co-host), and CBS’s “The Early Show.”  

 

In 2005, Amy was tapped by CNN as a pop culture contributor and reporter for their new entertainment news program, “Showbiz Tonight.”  At CNN, Amy offered up her trademarked unfiltered opinion on everything from the FCC’s crackdown on television to the Michael Jackson trial.